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Hassan Basajjabalaba joins timber business

After being evicted from abattoir business in Kampala, city business tycoon Hajji Hassan Basajjabalaba has joined timber business. We have been reliably informed that Hajji Basajjabalaba has bought five timber houses in Ndeeba and officially joined the business. The business tycoon has now recruited his family members and cousins to run his timber business on […]

President Mugabe Rejects Western Brutal Intrusion on Africa

… This is the speech delivered by the President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe at 12th Annual National People’s Conference (08 December 2011). On behalf of our Party, the Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front, I warmly greet and welcome you all to our 12th Annual National People’s Conference which is being hosted by the […]

Buganda kingdom issues fresh lease requirements

Buganda kingdom has issued fresh lease requirements on Kabaka Ronald Muwenda Mutebi’s land. The requirements are seven and they read as follows:  You pay registration, inspection and processing fee of 200,000 shillings to the Buganda Land Board cashier in office number 7 and obtain the lease application forms and fill them. After one is required […]

Human rights groups vow to arrest Sudan President Omar Bashir in Uganda

Human Rights Network – Uganda (HURINET – U) and Uganda Coalition on International Criminal Court (UCICC) have vowed to arrest the President of Sudan if he dares land in Uganda to attend the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region heads of States summit on 15th December. The two CSOs say they have been dismayed […]

Inspector General of Police and Internal affairs ministry defend bill

The Attorney general, ministry of internal affairs and the Uganda Police have defended the public order management bill calling for its enactment amid protests from the public. Appearing before the legal and Parliamentary affairs committee of Parliament, Peter Nyombi the attorney general says there is a lacuna in the existing laws of the land that […]

Kampala Deputy Mayor’s property attached over rent arrears

Household properties belonging to Kampala Deputy Mayor, Sula Kidandala have been attached by court bailiffs over accumulated house rent. Kidandala has been occupying a fully fledged residential house in Kawempe and failed to pay the land lord his rent amounting to 1,500,000 million shillings. We hear the house which Kidandala has been renting belongs to […]

Bobi Wine tells on campus girls to enjoy love

At least most of the people know that however much human beings are equal, some are more equal than others. To many campusers, last night’s campus night at club rouge in Kampala was a special one as they enjoyed free booze curtsy of singer Bobi Wine of Firebase Crew. We don’t know what exactly Bobi […]

Mpuga inists Kabakumba, Mary Karooro should resign

The Member of Parliament for Masaka municipality Mathias Mpuga has called for the resignation of the minister for presidency Kabakumba Matsiko and the minister for information national guidance Mary Okuruti over the scandals they are involved in at UBC. Mpuga told journalist at parliament that Matsiko was the minister of  information and national guidance a time when many UBC […]

Those calling me corrupt are idiots” Amama Mbabazi

The Prime Minister John Patrick Amama Mbabazi has blasted whoever is calling him corrupt saying such people are idiots. Mbabazi who had come to present a self defence before the Parliamentary ad hoc committee on the regularization of the oil sector says many people have branded him corrupt whereas he is not. The Prime minister […]

African governments urged against signing away water rights for decades

News Release: A paper published today by the International Institute for Environment and Development warns that African governments are signing away water rights for decades with insufficient regard for how this will affect millions of local users, including fishing, farming and pastoralist communities. The water rights often feature in the growing number of large land […]