Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 12:03 EAT on Saturday 21st May 2022. Police in Mityana district is hunting for a group of gunmen who mounted a roadblock and robbed an unspecified amount of money from passengers aboard a Kampala-bound Link Bus. It is alleged that the passengers were traveling on a night bus from…

Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1126 EAT on Saturday 21st May 2022. City businessman Hamis Kiggundu has said that the land titles he obtained in Kigo were not issued on Kabaka’s land, but rather inside Lake Victoria. This revelation was made in a defense filed to the commissioner land registration by his lawyers following…

Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1108 EAT on Saturday 21st May 2022. Fred Muwema, the lawyer for businessman Patrick Bitature insists his client ‘signed by mistake’ the $10 million loan agreement with South African entity, Vantage Mezzanine Fund II Partnership. Whereas Muwema acknowledged that indeed Bitature contracted a loan agreement and took money from Vantage,…

Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 0957 EAT on Friday 20th May 2022. Days after government lifted the suspension of activities of Link Bus, another of the company’s coaches has been involved in yet another de trop safety situation. A Kampala-bound Scania bus registration number, UBD 269A that was returning from Kasese caught fire at…

Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 0943 EAT on Friday 20th May 2022. Police have ‘allowed’ former presidential candidate Dr Kizza Besigye to return home after holding him inside his car for more than seven hours in Kasangati town council, Wakiso district. Police intercepted Besigye shortly after leaving his residence where he spent six days…

Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1009 EAT on Thursday 18th May 2022. Parliament has found itself in a catch-22 after a section of legislators complained about deductions of Shs 1 million off their salaries as contributions to the Jacob Oulanyah Education Trust Fund. The fund was set up two months ago in memory of…

Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 0948 EAT on Thursday 18th May 2022. Government is set to borrow Shs 9.7 trillion in a bid to finance its Shs 47 trillion 2022/2023 financial year budget, the National Budget Framework Paper indicates. Under the theme ‘Full monetization of the economy through commercial agriculture, industrialization, market access and…

Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 0927 EAT on Thursday 18th May 2022. Exiled government critic and author Kakwenza Rukirabashaija caught the nation by surprise when he fled to exile on February 9. It sparked debate and speculation about the mystery surrounding his last hours in Uganda. However, Kakwenza has broken the silence and narrated…