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Shell sues Minister Otafiire over contract

Shell Uganda has dragged the minister of Justice and Constitutional affairs Kahinda Otafiire and his company, Benzina(U) Ltd over a breach of contract to the commercial court. In the suit, Shell contends that in November last year, Otafiire received 1.2bn shillings from it after entering into a lease agreement for land located in FRV304 folio, […]

Justice Faith Mwondah sues Daily Monitor for defamation

Former Inspector General of Government and currently a high court judge Faith Mwondha has dragged the Monitor Publications Ltd, the editor of Sunday Monitor and Emmanuel Gyezaho accusing them of defaming her. Mwondha says she is aggrieved by the two defaming articles published in the Sunday Monitor newspaper in August 2007, indicating that she was […]

FDC Women’s League Leader Ingrid Turinawe released from prison

The Leader of the women league of the Forum for Democratic Chnage, Ingrid Turinawe has been released by court. This is after she was arrested and charged in court after her standoff with the police who blocked her accessing the city centre. Turinawe was stopped from attending a press conference by the Activists for Change, […]

99 year old man defiles 8 year old girl

Police in Buvuma district has today arrested a 99 year old man over defilement of eight year old girl. The police spokesman for central East region, Lameka Kigozi says that the old man who is resident of Namatooke village in BusanziSubCounty, Buvuma District may appear in court on Wednesday. Kigozi says the old man faces […]

Police keeps guard of Turinawe’s home

Police are still surrounded the home of FDC women league chairperson, ms Ingrid Turinawe checking every one who enters and exits it. The policemen under the command of the Operations commander Kampala North Metropolitan, Sam Omara stormed Turinawe’s home in Canaan Sites Estate, Nakwero village located along Kampala Gayaza road on Monday. The same police […]

East African court of justice names Mukasa Mbidde East African parliament MP

   Members of opposition political parties inUgandaare preparing themselves to vote their respective representatives in the East African Legislative Assembly come the month of April 2012. The chief Legal advisor of the Democratic Party, Mukasa Mbidde says that he is surprised that some people in DP are preparing themselves to vote on an order of […]

Struggle for EALA hits up

 Following the recent success in the East African court of Justice in a matter filled and argued by the Democratic Party’s chief legal advisor, Fred Denis Mukasa Mbidde, the future for most current East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) MPs has diminished. The requirement by each party to present a candidate has a result of the court’s […]

Moses Kasibante stays in Lukwago’s house

  Struggling DP politician Moses Kasibante is seriously broke and he doesn’t have money to rent a house or room now. We hear that all the money he had was spent in the February 2011 parliamentary elections and on the court battles he has been battling with MP Singh Katongole. We are also told that […]

DP members join East African Legislative Assembly race

It seems factions in Uganda’s oldest opposition political party, the Democratic Party (DP) are not about to end soon. After the party was split recently over leadership row, we have been reliably informed that the party is once again divided over elections of a person to represent the party in the East African Legislative Assembly. […]

Rebecca Nalwanga vows to remove MP Brenda Nabukenya from parliament

Ms Rebecca Nalwanga, the former NRM parliamentary candidate in Luweero district woman MP race who lost to DP’s Brenda Nabukenya says that she will fight until Nabukenya is removed from house. She says that she has collected enough evidence to prove that the polls were rigged in favour of the DP candidate, an allegation Nabukenya […]