Month: June 2018

Police in Kampala have closed down a building in the city after two suspected explosives were found there. A statement...

Uganda-China Commit To Strengthening Ties

The Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga and the Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference...

Uganda’s Budget Deficit Worsens, 50% to Be Borrowed

Government is aiming at collecting 16.35 trillion Shillings to support the estimates in the 2018/2019 financial year budget presented this...

Zambia Suspends Borrowing Plans Indefinitely

Zambia has decided to delay all planned borrowing indefinitely, its finance minister said on Thursday, slowing down the accumulation of...

World Cup 2018: Croatia v Nigeria. Eagles Eager To Fly

Respectively knocked out in the group stage and Round of 16 four years ago, Croatia and Nigeria open their 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia...

Ugandan Wins Africa Prize For Developing Bloodless Malaria Test

A 24-year-old Ugandan software engineer has won the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation. Brian Gitta is the first Ugandan to...

Army: We’re Questioning Kayihura

The Army have released a statement confirming officially that former Inspector General Of Police Kale Kayihura is effectively an inmate...

Glamour At PostBank Sponsored Bunyoro Empango Celebration

It was all glitz and glamour in Hoima at the Karuziika palace as the Bunyoro King ‘Omukama’ Solomon Iguru I...

CNOOC Says Oil Production Only Possible In 2021

Oil production in Uganda is likely to start in 2021 at the earliest, China’s CNOOC said, giving a later date...

Russia, Saudi Arabia Open World Cup Spectacular

Russia vs Saudi Arabia 4:00pm Almost four years of waiting has led to this. Precisely 1432 days after Mario Gotze’s extra...

Kayihura Spends First Night In A Detention Cell

Investigators are going to continue questioning former Inspector General Of Police Kale Kayihura a day after he got a feel...

Failure To Get United African Vote Cost Morocco

Morocco’s hopes of hosting the 2026 World Cup foundered on the failure to secure a united African vote as the...

Kayihura Firmly Under Military ‘Arrest’

Former Inspector General of Police Kale Kayihura is tonight sleeping under military arrest. The disgraced soldier who was fired from...

Fake Gold Dealers Arrested

The police in Entebbe have arrested nine people on suspicion of dealing in fake gold. Dorcus Chibasi, Samson Onyango Wesonga...

MTN Donates To Ngabo Science Academy

MTN Uganda has today visited Ngabo Academy of Science and Vocational Studies in Mbarara and boosted its ICT curriculum with...

Nambooze Questioned Over Abiriga, Released On Bond

The Police have raided the home of Mukono MP Betty Nambooze at Nabuti in Mukono Municipality. The MP was then...

‘Kabila Won’t Seek Third Term’

Congo’s current President Joseph Kabila will not seek a third mandate in the Central African country’s upcoming December elections because...

Congo’s Bemba Ordered Released After ICC Acquittal

Jean-Pierre Bemba, the Congolese ex-vice president whose war crimes conviction was quashed on appeal last week, must be released, judges...

MUBS Lecturers Go On Strike

Makerere University Business School - MUBS lecturers have laid down their tools citing failure by government to enhance their salaries....

BOU To Issue Collateral Free Agriculture Loan