Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1122 EAT on Tuesday 31st May 2022. Budaka district councillors have refused to approve the FY 2022/23 Shs 30 billion budget, citing several anomalies which they claim they cannot proceed to approve. The budget which the council was meant to approve has the health sector taking Shs 4.8 billion,…
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Female pilgrim trekking to Namugongo knocked dead in Lyantonde.
Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1105 EAT on Tuesday 31st May 2022. Jovita Tukahiirwa, one of the 44 pilgrims trekking a 395km journey from Ntungamo district, western Uganda has been knocked dead by a speeding car in Lyantonde along the Mbarara-Kampala highway. Tukahiirwa, 54, was killed by a speeding Toyota Harrier registration number, UBH…
Jailed Mabirizi ; countries fight for release of MPs Ssegirinya,
Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1347 EAT on Tuesday 31st May 2022. Jailed city lawyer Male Mabirizi has asked the Constitutional court to order Uganda Prisons Services to produce Kawempe North MP Muhammad Ssegirinya and his Makindye West counterpart Allan Ssewanyana for the hearing of the case seeking to quash criminal charges instituted against…
Medical fraternity mourns doctor killed in Nakawa traffic lights accident
Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1126 EAT on Monday 30th May 2022. The medical fraternity is mourning the death Dr Emmeline Bagonza, a specialist in primary care, preventive medicine, and community medicine. Bagonza died in a road crash on Friday evening. At the time of her death, the renowned physician was attached to International…
Two Ugandans held in India over illegal possession of cocaine
Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1029 EAT on Monday 30th May 2022. The Indian government is holding two female Ugandan nationals for alleged possession of 1.85 kilograms of cocaine. According to a tweet from the customs department in New Delhi, the suspects were picked up shortly after arrival on May 26, 2022, aboard Ethiopian…
Court halts Mabirizi’s offensive communication trial.
Updated at 1428 EAT on Saturday 28th May 2022. Buganda Road Magistrate’s court has halted the proceedings in which city lawyer Male Mabirizi is accused of offensive communication until further notice. Court presided over by grade one magistrate Sanula Nambozo today Friday halted the proceedings and forwarded the file to the Constitutional court as requested…
Kabuleta faults UPDF for ‘genocide’ in Karamoja.
Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1634 EAT on Friday 27th May 2022. Former presidential Joseph Kabuleta has claimed there is a silent genocide being perpetrated by the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) in Karamoja under the guise of fighting cattle rustlers. He said this on May 23 during a press conference organised by his…
Fire kills 11 newborn babies at Senegal hospital.
Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1348 EAT on Friday 27th May 2022. Senegal’s President Macky Sall has said that 11 newborn babies died in a fire at the neonatal section of a regional hospital in the town of Tivaouane, around 120 kilometres (74.56 miles) east of the capital Dakar. “I have just learned with…
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