Category: News
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Gen Tumwine body won’t be taken to Parliament after Museveni order.
The Commander in Chief(CiC) and President of the Republic of Uganda, Gen. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has ordered fallen four star General, Elly Tumwine be flown to his ancestral home for burial after today’s (Monday) official public funeral at Kololo Ceremonial Grounds. We were advised not to [take the body to Parliament] In the military, we…
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Bishop charged for alleged assault of child (14)
The Territorial Police in KMP and Kira Division, has charged to court, Bishop Kibuuka Jacinto, of the Evangelical Orthodox Church, located at Mamre Prayer Center, Namugongo, for the alleged Aggravated Torture of Othieno Denis, a 14 year old, pupil of Christ the King Junior School, Namungoona. It took the intervention of the landlady, who rescued…
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General Elly Tumwine Breathes His Last At Age 68
Former Security Minister Gen Elly Tumwine has died. Elly who was one of the few surviving Generals of the 1986 bush war of the NRM, died at Aga Khan Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya, where he was airlifted recently as he battled cancer -related complications. Details about his death and ailments remain scanty as the family…
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Muleya Exposes Fraud and Corruption in the Uganda Airlines
The former Chief Executive of the once defunct but risen Uganda National Airlines Company Limited (UNACL) came out clean and blamed his exit from the company on both ‘External’ and ‘Internal’ forces. This was during the ongoing COSASE probe into the company. Muleya a Ugandan resident of Zambian decent is one of the said technocrats…
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Photos; Komuntale set to drop Tot, holds a mega baby shower
Tooro Kingdom princess Ruth Nsemere Komuntale is set to give birth any time from now. On Friday, she held a mega baby shower and posted pictures of her and hubby having a good time with her friends at her baby shower held last week. Ruth Komuntale was expecting a baby with her husband Phil Anthony.…
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Shocking details about death of newlywed tycoon Kaweesi emerge, Widow makes statement at Police
Last week, a newly-wed father from Birmingham died trying to save his son from River Nile. Robert Kaweesi, 48, was reportedly with his wife, Justine Katantazi, and their four children, staying in a lodge on the banks of the river Nile in the northern town of Pakwach, when the tragedy happened. It was reported that…
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12 dead after drinking Waragi in Arua
The territorial police of Arua City and Madi-okollo district are investigating incidences of sudden death of 12 people and intoxication of several others due to suspected poisoning. They were suspected to have got problems after drinking a locally manufactured waragi labelled as City 5, Pineapple Flavored Gin. According to Angucia Josephine PRO West Nile Region,four…
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RAILA AMOLO ODINGA ‘AGWAMBO’S’ END AS PATRIARCH OF KENYA’S OPPOSITION
By Ofwono Opondo This week, William Samoei Arap Ruto, a self-claimed former roadside chicken seller, in a ‘hustler nation’, ended Raila Amolo Odinga a.k.a. Baba’s teary career in elective politics spanning four decades since Daniel Toroitich arap Moi’s iron fist KANU era of 24 years, mostly as a one-party state then fashionable in Africa. Either…
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How URA is using forensics to counter revenue leakages
By Florence Namuganza The advancement of technology and internet have transformed the way businesses operate, and ushered new trends in transactions. However, this progression has also been misused by unscrupulous individuals as a mechanism to dodge taxes through vices like; document forgeries, invoice trading, missing traders, sales suppression, EFRIS system tampering, and code misclassification. This…
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Speaker donates Shs50 million for Buyende maternity ward
Speaker Anita Among has donated Shs50 million to support the completion of a maternity ward in Kagulu-Igwaya trading centre in Buyende District. Among handed over the money to Prossy Mpindi, the founder of Maliya Foundation Health Care Centre, a private charity organization that is running a health facility to provide highly subsidized treatment to the…