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Junior lands minister Dr Sam Mayanja narrowly survived being killed by angry locals as he intervened in a land wrangle.
Emyooga National Coordinator Rita Namuwenge has announced an operation against Emyooga defaulters, some of whom refused to pay because they subscribe to President Yoweri Museveni’s ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM).
Activists have been sending messages of support to one of their own after she was thrown out of a house she has been calling home in Kisaasi in Kampala. The activist has been famous for fearlessly exposing governance and accountability issues in Uganda’s Parliament, one of the third arms of government superintended over by Speaker Anita Annet Among.
In an ongoing court battle that is pitting KCB Bank against its client, Tirupati Development (U) Limited which specializes in real estate investment and development, the commercial bank stands to lose billions in assets and reputation. The case relates to a loan amounting to $7m, roughly Shs26bn.
The NWSC Board has re-appointed Eng. Dr. Silver Mugisha as the corporation’s Managing Director on a five-year- term.
A man who shot and killed an Indian money lender near Uganda’s Parliament has been identified as a police officer, the law and order agency has confirmed.
A yet to be identified gunman has shot and killed an Indian businessman at Parliamentary Avenue in Kampala.
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.
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.