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Disbandment of Aids committee stirs up tensions within Judiciary
As of last year, an estimated 1.4 million Ugandans were living with HIV/Aids while another 23,000 died of HIV/Aids-related illnesses. As of 2018, Unaids estimated HIV/Aids prevalence among adults aged...
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Mpigi witchdoctor arrested for defiling, impregnating teen sisters
A five-month hunt for Mpigi-based witchdoctor accused of defiling and impregnating two teenage sisters has come to an end following his arrest this week. Magambo Musa also known as Mulangira Musoga...
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Security guard killed by wife in domestic brawl
Jinja Road police has arrested a woman identified as Evelyn Nandutu on allegations of killing her husband Justus Okumu, a security guard attached to Saracen during a domestic brawl.Kampala Metropolitan...
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Makerere has now secured all graduation gowns - Nawangwe
Makerere University has secured all the 15,000 graduation gowns for the 70th graduation ceremony according to the vice chancellor. Addressing the students at the start of the four-day graduation...
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Riotous students will be fired - Makerere VC
Makerere University has confronted some of the worst student riots in the recent past and vice chancellor Prof Barnabas Nawangwe warned yesterday during the 70th graduation ceremony that errant...
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Museveni trek secrets exposed
In a routine 120-minute appearance on Capital Gang, a Capital radio Saturday political talk show, Government spokesman Ofwono Opondo made a stunning revelation. With a little nudging, Opondo dismantled...
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War over departed Asian Assets rocks parliament
The request for documents and summons of witnesses — all touted as part of a new expansive parliamentary investigation into the disposal of properties of the departed Asians has escalated the fight...
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Police hunts for top investors over fraud
The Criminal Investigations Directorate has kicked off a manhunt for a couple of top foreign businessmen who jumped bail after being charged with tax evasion and fraud at one of the biggest paint...
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$1.4m procurement scam rocks education ministry
A whistle-blower has petitioned the Inspectorate of Government (IG) to investigate how two foreign firms won deals to supply, install and maintain solar energy in 89 secondary schools countrywide. The...
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Ivory Coast rescues 137 child trafficking victims
Authorities in Ivory Coast say they rescued 137 children who were the victims of traffickers and groomed to work on cocoa plantations or in prostitution. Police rescued the children after surrounding...
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MP Ssekikubo rearrested
Lwemiyaga County MP Theodore Ssekikubo has been rearrested a day after he was granted bail by Masaka Chief Magistrate’s court. He was arrested from his country home in Lwemiyaga town council in...
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96 UAE-bound Ugandan girls intercepted in Kenya
A total of 96 Ugandan girls have been intercepted in Kenya en route to the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The girls aged between 14 and 18 years were intercepted at Jomo Kenyatta international...
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Mukono hospital halts treating police suspects
Mukono general hospital has halted treating suspects brought in by Mukono police division over lack of facilitation. The division usually takes the suspects to the hospital for examination treatment...
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Makerere probed over importing graduation gowns from China
The Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Assets Authority (PPDA) has opened an audit into the recent importation of Makerere University graduation gowns from China. Team Uniform Ltd, the sole...
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First Lady opposes Museveni's sanitary towel pledge
First Lady and Education minister Janet Museveni is opposed to President Museveni's 2016 campaign pledge of providing free sanitary pads to school-going girls across the country. While on the campaign...
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Four more bodies recovered from collapsed Jinja building
Four more bodies have been recovered from the rubbles of the two-storied building that collapsed in Jinja town in eastern Uganda on Wednesday.The dead have been identified as Dennis Muhoofa aged 28,...
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Gunfire rattles Sudan's capital Khartoum
Clashes between Sudanese security forces in the capital this week have raised questions about loyalty and stability in the military and the country’s transitional unity government, with some Sudanese...
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BBS TV journalist arrested over Bobi Wine recounts ordeal
On January 6, Kyadondo East MP and People Power pressure group leader Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu aka Bobi Wine was set to launch his week-long consultative meetings after declaring his intentions to...
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AG seeks Shs 24bn 'facilitation' for $10bn DRC plunder case
The attorney general William Byaruhanga is seeking Shs 24bn to facilitate negotiations between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) over the settlement of a $10 billion plunder case. In...
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PLE: Uneb withholds results of 1,512 candidates
The Uganda National Examinations Board (Uneb) has withheld results of over 1500 candidates who sat for last year's Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE) pending completion of investigations over possible...
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