The Mpigi Resident District Commissioner, Sarah Kaweesi Nannono, has directed security and environmental authorities to intensify operations against illegal sand mining in Lwera Wetland after concerns that the practice is threatening the ongoing Kampala-Masaka Highway upgrade project.The d
Emboldened by the viciousness with which the Ugandan security agents have so far moved to crack the whip on former Speaker Anita Among while simultaneously dismantling any semblance of any power structures associated with people in her universe, a group of land-deprived Kira residents a few days
Elizabeth Nyasuna, who worked as Team Leader at Stanbic Bank’s Entebbe branch, has been awarded Shs 40 million by the court after the bank unlawfully dismissed her over a suspicious Shs 75 million cash withdrawal in 2012.Justice Anthony Wabwire Musana of the Industrial Court said Stanbic
Uganda's €2.7bn ($3.1bn) Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) project could be under threat, with Chief of Defence Forces Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba proclaiming on June 16 that the contract awarded to Turkey’s Yapi Merkezi had been “cancelled”.There has been no confirmation or denial from the
Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba has said Uganda cancelled its $3 billion SGR contract with Turkish firm Yapi Merkezi and has called for a PLU demonstration at the Turkish Embassy in Kampala.Chief of Defence Forces and Senior Presidential Advisor on Special Operations Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba has cl
Uganda’s Chief of Defence Forces, Muhoozi Kainerugaba, on Tuesday announced that opposition politician Erias Lukwago would be released from detention while calling on supporters of the Patriotic League of Uganda (PLU) to demonstrate at the Turkish Embassy in Kampala later this week.Lukwa
Authorities in Ibanda Municipality have prioritized the redevelopment of Ssaza Daily Market as the first project to be implemented under the Uganda Support to Municipal Infrastructure Development (USMID) Program, shelving earlier plans to simultaneously undertake three major infrastructure projec
Former Principal Secretary in the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Cooperatives (MTIC), Geraldine Ssali Busulwa, alongside five co-accused persons, is set to return to the Anti-Corruption Division of the High Court on Wednesday, 17, as proceedings in a high-profile corruption case resume.Ac
In 2006, Mariam Namutebi, who was living and working in Switzerland, wanted to construct a three-storeyed rental house on her land at Busega, Kampala.She started sending her sister Hadijja Nassuna money to oversee the project.Namutebi says she entered a verbal agreement with Nassuna
Maj Gen (rtd) Kahinda Otafiire, the former minister of Internal Affairs, didn’t mince his words about the leadership of the Uganda Police Force as he handed over office to the new minister last week.As Prof Ephraim Kamuntu officially took the reins from Gen Otafiire as minister of Intern
