Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 2047 EAT on Monday 18th July 2022. A thunderbolt has claimed the life of a 13-year-old boy and critically injured five others in Buliisa. The deceased has been identified as Howard Okello, a son of Peter Okecha, the LC III chairperson of Biiso town council. The incident happened at…

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…

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…

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…

Telkom’s shares jumped nearly 30 percent following the announcement, while MTN was up nearly 5 percent. Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1855 EAT on Friday 15th July 2022. South African mobile operator MTN Group Ltd is in talks to buy smaller domestic rival Telkom for a stock or a cash-and-stock deal, the two companies…

Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1837 EAT on Friday 15th July 2022. The Court of Appeal has ruled that torture victims have no legal basis and requirement to produce medical evidence. The three-member panel comprising justices Fredrick Egonda-Ntende, Muzamiru Mutangula Kibeedi, and Christopher Gashirabake notes that it is rare to have direct evidence of…

Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1757 EAT on Friday 15th July 2022. Uganda’s education sector will fully recover from COVID-19 impact and aftereffects after 2030, according to Makerere University-based thinktank, Economic Policy Research Center (EPRC).  In the research in which experts analyzed levels of key education advancement indicators such as enrollment, transitioning, and quality of…

Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1739 EAT on Thursday 14th July 2022. MPs on the parliamentary finance committee have questioned the government’s decision to buy shares in indebted Roko Construction Limited.  State minister for Finance (General Duties) Henry Musasizi told the committee that the government had acquired a copy of the resolution for buying…