The Director of Special Duties in the police force, Andrew Sorowen, has directed regional and district police commanders to arrest all officers who dodge the forces mandatory physical fitness sessions. Sorowen was speaking in the eastern district of Iganga at a launch of the physical drills.

National water and Sewerage Corporation has denied reports of contaminated water in the pipes in the Northern district of Gulu. Gulu residents had expressed concern after their tap water turned yellow. However, the P.R.O National Water Apedel Samuel says they dispatched a quality assessment team on ground to take and taste samples to verify people’s […]

The Government has chosen Kiboga district to host this year’s Heroes day celebrations. The day is being observed under the theme “Our Heroes, building blocks for a better Uganda, your sacrifice is what has brought us far”. The celebrations that fall on the 9th of June 2015 will be held at Katwe primary school, Karokora […]

President Yoweri Museveni has commended the people of Omoro County in particular and Acholi Sub-Region in general, for embarking on massive production of coffee, a cash crop whose growing was, in the colonial days, a preserve of only some regions in Uganda, denying others immense wealth. The President was launching the growing of coffee and […]

Parliament’s Legal affairs committee is this afternoon receiving proposals from Center for Constitutional Governance (CCG) on constitutional Amendment Bill 2015. Among the proposals presented, CCG suggests the removal of UPDF from parliament, and a reduced role of the Police in electoral process, which makes them partisan. CCG also proposes the abolishment of the death penalty. […]

General Kale Kayihura has reinstated two detectives whom CIID boss Grace AKullo, had accused of taking bribes to kill the Shs169bn pension fraud case. Akullo had earlier blamed detectives George Komurubuga and Moses Kato for accepting financial offers from culprits to jeopardise investigations. She said the duo, without her knowledge, wrote a second investigation report […]

Seven people have been arrested for allegedly operating illegal clinics in Gulu district. The arrest follows a joint operation by the district drugs’ inspectors and officials from the Allied Health Professional Services under the Ministry of Health. Most of the clinics were operating without licenses and were employing unqualified health workers.

The National Social Security fund Head of Human Resources and Administration Eseza Catherine Byakika has denied reports of her interdiction. Byakika tells journalists she is officially on leave which ends on May 31st and so she will be in the office on Monday June 1st 2015. She has blamed her woes on intrigue from within […]

A civil society group wants the Trade ministry to promote local investors over foreign ones to create employment opportunities.  This follows cases where the Trade minister, Amelia Kyambadde, has on several occasions invited foreign investors to exploit the opportunities in various sectors of the economy, with the latest being in the pharmaceutical industry. Civil society […]