Witch doctor arrested with 5 human bodies

Witch doctor arrested with 5 human bodies

Police in Kayunga district has arrested a witch doctor, a one Owen Ssebuyungo aged 27 and exhumed five human bodies from his shrine in Kisoga Village, Nazigo Sub-county. Ssebuyungo was arrested together with three other witch doctors. Others arrested were identified as Juniro Kibuuka, Fred Kiiza Semanda and Muhammed Wamala and were all taken to Naggalama Police Station. […]

Speaker Kadaga orders for the lifting of the airtime scratch cards ban

Speaker Kadaga orders for the lifting of the airtime scratch cards ban

The speaker of Uganda Parliament, Hon.Rebecca Alitwala Kadaga, has ordered all telecom companies to return to the traditional way of loading airtime using scratch cards from the digitalized ‘easy go’. The speaker justified her decision saying that people in the villages are not well versed with the easy go method and therefore needed time to […]

Museveni to hold trade talks with Tanzanian president,John Pombe Magufuli

Museveni to hold trade talks with Tanzanian president,John Pombe Magufuli

The president of Uganda, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has visited his counterpart in Tanzania, John Pombe Magufuli to straighten trade relations between the two countries. President Museveni was , today, welcomed by Magufuli himself at the Julius Nyerere International Airport from where they headed to State House Dar es Salaam for talks. Last week, Tanzania announced it would […]

Government to Avail Shs100b to re-stabilize maize prices

Government to Avail Shs100b to re-stabilize maize prices

The government of Uganda has committed a sum of Uganda Shillings 100 billion towards re-stabilizing the maize prices.The money will be available in a weeks-time and channeled through Bank of Uganda Agriculture Credit Facility. A 15 per cent interest rate shall be levied from businessmen interested in getting the loan to buy the Maize grains […]

ADF rebels Massacre Fourteen in DR Congo

ADF rebels Massacre Fourteen in DR Congo

Fourteen nationals of the Democratic Republic of Congo who were allegedly abducted by the Uganda DR-Congo-based rebel group Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) have been found lying dead Beni region of North Kivu province. The deceased were ten men and four women.  “The 14 people who were abducted were found dead and buried” an army source told AFP. […]

Kitatta’s lawyer, Muyanja expelled from court over misconduct

Kitatta’s lawyer, Muyanja expelled from court over misconduct

City lawyer Jimmy Muyanja, one of former Boda Boda 2010 leader Abdallah Kitatta representative lawyers,was ordered out by General Court Martial chairman, Lt Gen Andrew Gutti, for alleged misconduct during the trial proceedings. Disaster bloke loose when Muyanja stood up and banged the table, accusing prosecutor Maj Raphael Mugisha of gesturing to a witness, Pte Richard […]

Three reported dead in Rakai as driver loses control over truck

Three reported dead in Rakai as driver loses control over truck

Three people have died in a road accident in Kiyonza Village, in Byakabanda Sub -County, Rakai District after the driver of Reg. No. UAN 215 P lost control over the truck and rolled several times. The deceased were identified as Imelda Namayanja, a resident of Nyendo, a Masaka town suburb and Justus Mukasa whereas the […]

Ugandans in South Korea request government to financially aid trade between the two countries

Ugandans in South Korea request government to financially aid trade between the two countries

The Ugandan Community in South Korea has requested for government  financial support to help boost trade between the two countries. This was during a meeting with a Parliamentary delegation Monday August 6, 2018 led by the Speaker, Rebecca Kadaga, at Glad Hotel, Seoul in South Korea. The Chairperson of the Ugandan Community in South Korea, Paul […]

New FDC reshuffles unconstitutional – Winnie Kiiza

New FDC reshuffles unconstitutional – Winnie Kiiza

Former leader of opposition, Winnie Kiiza, has criticized the previous reshuffles made by the FDC president, Patrick Oboi Amuriat saying that they are unconstitutional.Addressing journalists at Parliament on Monday,Kiiza cautioned her party leadership over making such legal decisions outside the constitutional terms and conditions. She added that appointing “minority leaders would be foolish since there is no […]

Namuganza to appear before the land commission over Mubende land dispute

Namuganza to appear before the land commission over Mubende land dispute

The Commission of Inquiry into Land Matters chaired by Justice Catherine Bamugemereire  has beckoned the State Minister for Lands, Ms Persis Namuganza, to answer questions regarding her alleged involvement in the purchase of a dubious land by the government. Ms Namuganza is suspected to have collaborated with state minister for Kampala and Mubende district Woman […]