The Police spokesperson Fred Enanga has said that investigators are highly suspecting that the assailants behind the shooting of Shiite leader Sheikh Dr Abdul Kadir Muwaya in Mayuge district last year are behind the recent killing of Sheikh Abdulrashid Wafula in Mbale. Sheikh Wafula, the director of Nakaloke Islamic Primary School and Secondary School in […]

An exercise by the National Environment Management Authority officials to impound banned polythene bags in downtown Kampala was abandoned prematurely after traders protested the move. Traders in Kikuubo market accuse the authority of overstepping its mandate and confiscating polythene bags above 30 microns.

Uganda’s State Minister for East African Affairs, Shem Bageine, says East African citizens holding East African passports will be permitted to travel around the world using the travel documents by January next year. The passport that was introduced in 1999 currently restricts travel to EAC member states only. State Minister Bageine made the announcement while […]

The Buganda Kingdom is holding special prayers today at the Lubiri Palace in Mengo to commemorate the attack on Kabaka Frederick Mutesa II’s palace in Lubiri on 24 May 1966. The palace was attacked on the orders of the then Prime Minister, Milton Obote, after the souring of his relationship with Buganda Kingdom officials. The […]

Close to 700 vendors flocked the open air market organised by Kampala Capital City Authority along Luwum street. The trade event dubbed “Sunday Market” which is in its second week had vendors selling their foodstuffs unlike last Sunday.

The police have retrieved the body of a man, yet to be identified, from River Rwajjali river. The limbs of the deceased were tied with a rope, which they said, points to murder.

Police in Jinja town have arrested 150 people, among them 70 children who have been living on the streets. The operation was carried out during the night. Police say they acted following a rise in crime in Jinja town.

The Minister for Primary Education John Chrysostom Muyingo has called upon teachers to resume on their duties as government works on their demands. Muyingo says that it is the children that surfer whenever teachers goes on strike yet they are innocent. Government has refused to increase the 10% salaries that teachers are demanding which prompted […]

First Lady Janet Kataaha Museveni has finally announced her retirement from Parliament, stating that she is not standing again to contest for the Ruhaama MP seat. Mrs Museveni who is also the State Minister for Karamoja Affairs has represented the Ruhaama people for two terms.