Clik here to view.
NRM Women League chairperson arrested in fake money printing scam
Police in Kwania district, northern Uganda have arrested two women on allegations of defrauding people claiming to have the capacity to print currency notes. The suspects are Semmy Ejang aka Semmy...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Cameroon closes church that claims COVID-19 is a hoax
This music is played on loudspeakers by a group of seven members of the Tabernacles of Freedoms Ministries in Cameroon’s capital Yaounde. The four women and three men move from house to house and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Food distribution: DPP drops charges against MP Zaake
The director of public prosecutions (DPP), Jane Frances Abodo has dropped charges against Mityana Municipality MP, Francis Zaake. The legislator was picked up from his residency in Buswabulongo in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Man who contracted HIV after using Life Guard condoms sues gov't
A man who allegedly contracted HIV/Aids and gonorrhoea after using defective Life Guard condoms has sued Maristopes Uganda, National Drug Authority (NDA) and the government for negligently supplying...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Soroti MP Ariko quits FDC over 'irreconcilable differences'
Soroti Municipality MP, Herbert Edmund Ariko has officially quit the opposition Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party. In his press statement issued on Wednesday, Ariko indicates that he is going to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Africa approaches one million coronavirus cases
The African continent is fast approaching 1 million confirmed cases of coronavirus, with South Africa alone accounting for more than half-a-million cases. World Health Organization officials say...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Mak registrar solicited money from parents at 2017 graduation - witness
The former Makerere University deputy academic registrar in charge of certificates, ceremonies, and publications, Margret Etuusa was involved in soliciting money from parents, students and guests...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Museveni summons NRM CEC members
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has called a meeting of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) central executive committee (CEC) tomorrow.The meeting will discuss the upcoming extraordinary meeting of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Army to grant former police boss Kayihura permission to bury mother
The army will grant permission to former police boss Gen Kale Kayihura, who is currently restricted from moving outside Kampala and Wakiso district, to attend his mother's burial. Catherine Tibemanya...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Court reduces Kitatta's jail sentence from 10 to 3 years
The Appellant Court Martial has reduced the ten-year jail term handed to Abdallah Kitatta, the patron of militia outfit, Boda Boda 2010 and his bodyguard, Sowali Ngobi for illegal possession of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
70-year-old Ugandan male succumbs to COVID-19
Another Ugandan has succumbed to the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), bringing the total number of deaths to six. The deceased is a male Ugandan aged 70 and resident of Nateete in Kampala, according to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Constitutional court stays corruption proceedings against Kazinda
The Constitutional court has permanently stayed all corruption proceedings against Geoffrey Kazinda, the former principal accountant in the Office of the Prime Minister.Kazinda has faced trial for...
View ArticleClik here to view.
78-year-old man rescued from committing suicide at new Jinja bridge
A 78-year-old man has been rescued by security from commit suicide at the Jinja Nile bridge on River Nile. Charles Kakiriho, a resident of Njerika cell in Isingiro district clad in a brown striped...
View ArticleClik here to view.
EC 'studying' petition challenging Bobi Wine as NUP president
The Electoral Commission (EC) has said it is reviewing a petition challenging how Kyadondo East MP Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine became president and presidential flagbearer of National Unity...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Boda Boda 2010's Kitatta, bodyguard released from prison
Former Boda Boda 2010 Association patron Abdallah Kitatta has been released from jail, the Uganda Prisons Services has confirmed.Frank Baine, the spokesperson of Uganda Prisons said that Kitatta and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Kampala has a lot more COVID-19 cases than reported - US Embassy
The US Embassy in Uganda has warned Americans living and working in Uganda to take extra precaution because according to them, despite its early success, Uganda is now into a critical phase of the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
9 arrested as police blocks Bobi Wine from BCU FM
At least nine people have been arrested as police fired teargas and bullets to disperse supporters of Kyadondo East MP Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine in Mbale today. Those arrested include Abbas...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Guinea-Bissau radios go silent in protest against police raid on Capital FM
Most radio stations in Guinea-Bissau fell silent for 24 hours on Thursday to show solidarity after a crippling attack on Radio Capital FM. At dawn on July 26, a group of men wearing police uniforms and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Congolese kidnappers demand Shs 4m to free 10 Ugandan fishermen
Congolese militias holding ten Ugandan fishermen they kidnapped from Lake Edward in Rukungiri district are demanding for a ransom of Shs 4 million to release them. The fishermen were kidnapped on...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Wakiso woman dies of coronavirus as 16 more test positive
Uganda has registered its 7th coronavirus death of a 49-year-old woman from Wakiso. She was HIV positive and on treatment, and also had a history of asthma and TB according to the ministry of Health....
View Article