A delayed share purchase cost Cipla Quality Chemicals close to Shs20b in just six months. This is according to a disclosure published together with the company’s financial results. Cipla and Africa Capitalworks had planned to complete the share purchase in a Shs94.5b ($25m) deal by May 31. However, mandatory approvals from Capital Markets Authority and Comesa delayed for months, with the ...

Singer David Lutalo has sworn that he didn’t know fellow singer Fik Fameica had a concert before organizing his own concert. Apparently, Fik Fameica will be having a concert on the 26th of January next year. Lutalo will then have his own Babongote concert the next day at Kampala Serena Hotel. Fik Fameica however came out and expressed his disappointment ...

Dancehall musician Richard Kasendwa aka Ziza Bafana has indirectly dissed fellow singer, Bruno K for detoothing sugar mummies. The Pomini singer was asked why most musicians don’t want to work especially when they are given money for intimate relationships. He said that it’s women who do such and not men. When he was informed that even men do it, the ...

Jamaican reggae dancehall singer Garfield Spence aka Konshens has finally confirmed that he will be performing in Uganda come next month. The Jamaican teased his social media followers especially those in East Africa sometimes earlier this month. The singer took to his social media pages and revealed that he will be performing in one of the East African countries on ...

Staff at Soroti Regional Referral Hospital in Soroti City have asked the government to expand the neonatal intensive care unit. This request follows the overwhelming number of pre-mature babies receiving treatment at the facility. Dr Florence Alaroker, a senior consultant paediatrician at the Soroti City hospital, said the unit, which has a capacity of about 10 beds, receives between two ...