News

Following the 10th edition of the Airtel sponsored Kabaka birthday run that proclaimed to be the biggest ever staged in Uganda with more than 100,000 tickets sold as the loyalists braved an overnight Sunday morning shower to pace around Buganda’s capital Mengo in Kampala. The mass participation race which offered no prizes and official timing concluded on Sunday as the ...

Last evening saw the Minister for ICT Hon Chris Baryomunsi getting blocked from accessing fellow Minister, Amos Lugoloobi. Lugoloobi who is the State Minister of Finance was arrested yesterday in connection with the theft of the Karamoja Iron sheets. He was then taken to Kira Division Police. After his arrest, Baryomunsi drove to the station to check on him but ...

Russian president Vladimir Putin on Friday approved an electronic call up bill which will soon be out in restrictions on people who are eligible for military service but try to dodge it by not showing up at their enlistment office. The state Duma passed a bill earlier that would make it harder for evaders who avoid military services. However this ...

The government has continuously warned private schools that haven’t yet implemented the new lower secondary school curriculum. Enoc Kiyemba, the senior education officer of Luwero district says this new curriculum is going to take the place of the old one for good. Therefore, he said schools that are ignoring it are wasting their time. They are also risking the future ...

Court in Kampala has sentenced a man to 45 years in prison after being convicted of sodomizing four male juveniles. Two of the boys are aged 8, one is 9 years old and the other is 13 years old. The offender is Twesigye Simon, 27, also known as Tadius. While sentencing him, High Court Judge Michael Elubu explained that the ...