Senior officials pinned in Shs 1 billion Tropical bank cash-out fraud.

Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 2038 EAT on Monday 18th July 2022. Last week, court adjourned hearing of a case in which seven junior staff of Tropical bank are accused of fraud involving a Shs 1bn cash-out. Prosecution alleges that seven staff who handled the transaction conspired to defraud the bank. They include Michael…

Putin says West cannot isolate Russia or send it back in time.

Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 2013 EAT on Monday 18th July 2022. Russian President Vladimir Putin says it is impossible to cut Russia off from the rest of the world, and that sanctions imposed by Western countries will not turn the clock back on Russia’s development. Since sending troops into Ukraine on February 24,…

At least 20 killed, 30 missing after boat capsizes in Pakistan

Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1958 EAT on Monday 18th July 2022. At least 20 people have died and another 30 are missing after a boat carrying more than 100 people capsized in a river in central Pakistan, officials said. The overloaded boat was heading to a wedding when it capsized in the Indus…

UAE arrests Khashoggi’s US lawyer on money laundering charges.

Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 2309 EAT on Sunday 17th July 2022. Authorities in the United Arab Emirates have arrested an American citizen and civil rights lawyer who previously served as a lawyer for slain journalist jamal khashogi, according to an official and a United States-based rights group. A UAE government official confirmed to the…

Pope: Canada trip ‘pilgrimage of penance’ for Indigenous abuses.

Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1918 EAT on Sunday 17th July 2022. Pope Francis has said an upcoming visit to Canada will be a “pilgrimage of penance” that he hopes will help to heal wounds left in Indigenous communities by Roman Catholic priests and nuns who ran abusive residential schools that sought to forcibly assimilate children….

Police chief roots for more support to canine unit.

Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe 1813 EAT on Sunday 17th July 2022. Maj Gen Geoffrey Tumusiime Katsigazi, the deputy inspector general of police (DIGP), has called for the strengthening of the police canine unit in order to defeat criminality. He said this on July 14 during a tour of the unit’s headquarters at Nsambya barracks…

ALEX NDAWULA: dynamic and memorable but a flawed genius.

Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1803 EAT on Sunday 17th July 2022. On July 10, renowned radio personality ALEX NDAWULA was finally laid to rest in Kyamaganda village, Nakateete parish in Lwengo district. He was 59. A peerless radio star in his heyday, Alex’s death and send-off were in many ways an anti-climax of…

In the face of Afrigo Band is Senior Citizen Moses Matovu

Compiled by E K Benj on Sunday 17th July 2022 In our special series “Senior Citizens” today we are featuring Moses Matovu  a Ugandan musician and saxophonist. He is one of the founders of Afrigo Band, Uganda’s longest-lasting band, founded in 1975. Early childhood and education Matovu was born on 19 June 1949 in Kawempe Division, Kampala District to Abdallah…