The police counter-terrorism unit and bomb squad personnel on Wednesday rushed to Nakasagazi village in Sembabule to retrieve a bomb discovered in a forest. Apparently, children found the bomb as they were fetching firewood from a nearby forest. While there, they discovered an old rusty projectile that somebody had abandoned for some time. The youngsters took the metal to a ...

The long-awaited West Nile derby between Arua Hill FC and Onduparaka FC at Barifa playground in Arua lived to the expected billing. Despite the drought of goals, this game had all the necessary ingredients of a contest between close rivals. A few minutes after the kickoff, the match was halted for close to 10 minutes after the internal perimeter fencing ...

On May 3, 2021, President Yoweri Museveni issued a directive to have all illegal miners evicted from Kisiita Mines. In addition, he guided that the illegal miners be given a 6-month grace period, for them to voluntarily vacate from the mining site. The State Minister for Mineral Development set November 3, 2021, as the final date for the victims to ...

The Uganda Alcohol Industry Association recently released a report indicating that illicit alcohol production is one of the country’s biggest tax leakages. The report showed that the production of illicit alcohol is one of those big tax leakages. Apparently, it costs the government huge sums of money in taxes. ‘’Tax leakage is driven by wide-scale under-declaration of production of spirits. ...

The National Water and Sewage Corporation (NWSC) has explained that no explosion happened at the Sonde Water reservoir. The announcement comes after rounds on social media were made about an explosion at the Mukono District reservoir. ‘’There was no explosion at the Sonde water reservoir. The tank is intact,’’ said a statement from the corporation on Sunday. On Sunday morning, ...