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Members of the Public Accounts Committee have tasked the Uganda Police Force (UPF) to explain how they spent an extra Shs 1 billion on top of what was approved by Parliament in the financial year 2017/2018. According to the Auditor General’s report, a total of shs664.4 billion had been budgeted to cater for activities of the force; but by the end of the financial year, UPF had received a total of shs665.4 billion representing 100.15 per cent of the budget. “I assessed risks such as inadequate release of funds and failure to undertake budget monitoring and supervision,” reads the report.…
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni said he was pleased with the opportunity, alongside His Excellency Paramasivum Pillay Vyapoory President of the Republic of Mauritius and His Excellency Edgar Lungu, President of the Republic of Zambia, to share this experience at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre in Nairobi where His Excellency Uhuru Kenyatta hosted the high-level business summit as part of the Source 21 COMESA International Trade Fair. Africa is a continent of under production, Museveni stated. “I hear that in Brazil, production can go up to 80 tonnes per hectare of bananas but Ugandans go up to 5.3 tonnes.” Secondly, Africa…
The suspect in the gruesome murder of motor cyclist (boda boda) son on CCTV footage that circulated widely in the social media has been arrested. The suspect was arrested at Nsiike I, Ndeeba, Rubaga Kampala last night 16/07/2019 after a tip off. The suspect is identified as Mugisha John Bosco alias Mukiga. Mugisha admits that he is the one in the video with his colleague called Young Mulo (not the musician). He confessed that Young Mulo was killed by the mob on 3/7/2019 on suspicion that that had stolen a motor cycle. Mugisha admits that they had robbed the motor…
Besides the numerous syndicates played against the Chairman of Ruparelia Group, Dr Sudhir Ruparelia by government and private sector officials, as its always said that time is the best judge, reality has continued to manifest following the last ranking. Though he recently faced the huddles when the illegal sale of his hard earned Crane Bank occurred, this has not become reason enough to bring the celebrated humble tycoon to his knees. New findings continue rating Sudhir’s business empire as one of the fastest thriving in the region something that earned him a ranking as Uganda’s leading tax payer by the…
The controversial arrest of Evangelist Joseph Kabuleta last week gave birth to massive mixed reactions in and outside the country. Kabuleta was picked on allegations of offensive communication and attacking the persona of the president including some of his family members. In the bid to solidarity, leading opposition figures like Forum for Democratic Change’s (FDC) Dr. Kiiza Besigye Promised to testify to court to prove the fact that president Museveni is a thief, Gambler and a lair as stated by the former Vision Group sports journalist. A head of his bail hearing session, several FDC members led by Makerere University…
President Yoweri Musevani is in Nairobi, the Kenyan capital, to attend the Source 21 COMESA International Trade Fair and Business Summit at the invitation of his Kenyan counterpart President Uhuru Kenyatta. The President arrived in Kenya last evening and was received at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport by the Kenya Cabinet Secretary for Industrialization Hon. Aden Mohamed, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hon. Sam Kuteesa, Uganda’s Deputy High Commissioner to Kenya Mr. Nathan Ndoboli, the Consular General in Mombasa Mr. Katureebe Tayebwa, together with other senior High Commission officials. The COMESA International Trade Fair and Business Summit, that opens at the Kenyatta…
Sub-Saharan Africa will remain the world’s fastest-growing mobile region over the coming years as millions of young African consumers become mobile users for the first time, according to a new GSMA study. It reveals that more than 160 million new unique mobile subscribers will be added across the region by 2025, bringing the total to 623 million, representing around half of the region’s population, up from 456 million (44 per cent) in 2018. Subscriber additions will be concentrated in high-growth markets such as Nigeria and Ethiopia, the report says. “A new generation of youthful ‘digital natives’ across Sub-Saharan Africa are set…
The Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, has urged government to increase efforts in promoting cultural tourism as a way of marketing Uganda to the diaspora. Kadaga said this during her visit to the Republic of Morocco on the invitation of the Speaker of the House of Representatives of Morocco, H.E. Habib El Maliki. The Speaker, who was accompanied by MPs, toured the Mohammed V Mausoleum, a tomb where Morocco’s King Hassan II, and his sons were buried. “We toured the Mausoleum of Mohammed V, where we found very many people who were also touring the place; Uganda too has various…
53 year old pastor from Nigeria has been arrested for impregnating more than 20 members of his congregation, including married women and young girls, claiming that the Holy Spirit commanded him to do so. The police spokesperson, Ebere Amaraizu revealed that the pastor, Timothy Ngwu of Overseer of Vineyard Ministry of the Holy Trinity was charged under the offence of sexual abuse. “The pastor claims to be obeying spiritual orders to do the will of God, which is to impregnate anyone chosen and revealed by the holy spirit, irrespective of whether the woman is married or not,” said Amaraizu. ‘When…
President Yoweri Museveni has commended the US-based Living Water International for setting a good example for others to follow by stepping out to help their Christian neighbours, an act, he said was Godly and walking in Jesus’s foot steps. “According to the distribution of your efforts, you seem to be in the footsteps of Jesus because He guided us very clearly. We shall know them by their fruits, not what they say but what they do,” he said. The President was last evening speaking at a dinner that he attended at Imperial Royale Hotel in Kampala to mark the opening…