Staff of the Uganda Road Fund (URF) and the board Chairperson are embroiled in a bitter clash over the recruitment process of the Executive Director. According to a petition by members of staff addressed to Matia Kasaija, the Minister Of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, Board Chairperson, Ms. Merian Sebunya Kyomugisha and Board Member, Ms. […]
Former Police Chief General Kayihura and his family have been banned from setting foot in the United States of America after Uncle Sam designated the ex-police boss. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo issued on a statement on Friday outlining why Kayihura, his wife and children have been designated. “The Department is publicly designating Kale […]
President, Yoweri Museveni and his Kenyan counterpart, Uhuru Kenyatta have signed a Memorandum of Understanding on a joint cross-border integrated programme for sustainable peace and social economic transformation for Turkana, West Pokot and Karamoja. The two leaders signed the MoU in Moroto on Thursday evening. The move to sign the memorandum started on August 31st, […]
Police have said Fortunate Ayebare, who was reported missing on Wednesday evening, is in their custody. According to a police source, she is wanted in connection with the kidnap and murder of Maria Nagirinya, a former Social Worker with the Community Integrated Development Initiative (CIDI). Nagirinya was kidnapped outside her home in Lungujja, Rubaga Division […]
Uganda Registrations Services Bureau (URSB) Registrar General, Bemanya Twebaze has been elected President of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Advisory Committee on Enforcement at its 14th session WIPO Advisory Committee on Enforcement in Geneva, Switzerland. Bemanya who was elected on Monday 2nd September, will be assisted by Ms. Elizabeth Jones of the UK IPO Copyright […]
More than 500 families that were brutally evicted from Kyabisagazi 1 and 2 in Kyabisagazi parishes, in Kigorobya Sub-county, Hoima District, are demanding the release of the parliamentary select committee report on their eviction. The families were evicted from the land in February when a joint force of UPDF and police raided the village to […]
A 28-year-old NGO staff Maria Nagirinya, who was on Wednesday grabbed at the gate of her home in Busega, a Kampala city suburb was killed alongside her driver before being dumped at Nama, Mukono District, yet to be verified reports reveal. Ms Nagirinya is a project manager at Community Integrated Development Initiative (CIDI), a Kampala-based […]
The Uganda Police have launched investigations into the brutal attack on a man for allegedly supporting President Yoweri Museveni’s supporter. According to a statement issued by the Kampala Metropolitan Police spokesperson, Patrick Onyango, the force is investigating circumstances that led to the clobbering of Baker Kasumba. In statement, Onyango reveals that Baker narrated to them […]
Pests are a big nuisance to farmers because, among other things, they reduce crop production. To overcome the problem, farmers often resort to buying pesticides which are poisonous chemicals manufactured to kill the pests. They may be dusted or sprayed on the crop to prevent pest attack. The farmer, is however, expected to know that […]
Uganda said on Wednesday that due to the importance of its famed Murchison Falls as a lucrative tourism attraction it had rejected a hydropower project proposed by South Africa’s Bonang Power and Energy. The falls lend their name to a 3,900-square-km national park, one of Uganda’s biggest, where visitors can view lions, hippos, elephants, buffalos […]