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A yet to be identified gunman has shot and killed an Indian businessman at Parliamentary Avenue in Kampala.
Kabuye Kyofatogabye, the Minister of State (junior) for Kampala Capital City and Metropolitan Affairs has spoken out on allegations that he had threatened Kampala Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago. On May 11, the Lord Mayor told Parliament’s Physical Infrastructure Committee that he believed his life was in danger after receiving a text message from Minister Kyofatogabye.
A group of foreigners who have been working on a hydropower plant project have impregnated at least 31 teenage girls and left the country for Sri Lanka, local authorities have told The Pearl Times.
Ugandan President Gen Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni has finally broached the issue of salary enhancement for national army UPDF officers after a bodyguard shot dead Col (Rtd) Charles Engola, the Minister of Labour, Employment and Industrial Relations, in Kyanja, Kampala.
UNAIDS Executive Director Winnie Byanyima has explained why Uganda’s president Gen Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni must not assent to the recently passed Anti-Homosexuality Bill.
President Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni’s government has made it clear that it will not increase salaries for medical officers special grade, also referred to as associate consultant doctors, as well as Senior House Officers (SHOs) who have laid down their tools over pay-related grievances.
A top leader in first son Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba’s MK Movement (Project) has blasted a controversial activist of President Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni’s ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) for constantly crying out to the head of state and government to intervene and save him from people he claims have been trailing him and want to end his life.
Former Aruu North MP Samuel Odonga Otto is known for speaking his mind without fear or favor. Also, unlike those who pay lip service to causes they claim to believe in, Otto is a man who knows how to walk the talk. And his fight against depletion of forests for charcoal in Acholi sub-region speaks volumes about his actions being louder than his words.
Uganda’s Judiciary has warned weed (ganja/mairungi/marijuana) smokers against misinterpreting a recent Constitutional Court decision in favour of ganja planters under the Wakiso Miraa Growers and Dealers Association Limited.