The Secretary to Judiciary, Kivumbi Kagoye (in featured photo) has reportedly gone into hiding after failing to account to Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) how Shs34bn was spent by the institution. Kagoye, who led the team of officials from the Judiciary to PAC on Monday to answer queries raised in
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President Yoweri Museveni’s efforts to not only inspire commercial agriculture but also actively participate were last weekend recognised at the 3rd Annual Farmers' Expo held at Nama Sub-County Headquarters, Mukono district. Army bosses with President Museveni's award Museveni received the Lifetime Agripreneur Award from the organisers of the Expo, the
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A court in Uganda has ordered the government to pay $6,700 (£5,300) as compensation to Joyce Bikyahaga Namata, the mother of a man who was killed in police custody in 2007. Ronald Bikyahaga died as a result of the severe beating and torture he received at Nabbingo Police Post after
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Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni on Monday received H.E. Julius Maada BIO, President of the Republic of Sierra Leone who is on an official State visit to the East African country from 1st - 3rd July 2019. According to State House, Maada's visit is expected to further strengthen the warm and
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Kampala Capital City Authority has revealed plans to wipe street children out of Kampala. The Deputy Director Gender at KCCA, Josephine Lubwama says the Authority plans to close the two settlements in Katwe and Kisenyi that house the children on streets in a bid to free the city of the
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The body of a male stowaway Sunday fell off a Kenya Airways plane moments before it landed at London’s Heathrow Airport, Daily Nation reports. The KQ Flight 100 was traveling from Nairobi to London. According to a statement released by KQ on Monday, London’s Metropolitan Police informed the airline that
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Genetically modified mosquitoes have been released in Burkina Faso as part of an anti-malaria campaign. While some critics have raised concerns, the scientists involved said the release, which was the first of its kind in Africa, represented a very important milestone. Burkina Faso's Research Institute of Health Sciences, a government
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Shares in Kenya’s Safaricom Plc opened 2.7 per cent lower at KSh27.35 on Monday after the telecoms company announced the death of Chief Executive Robert William Collymore after a nearly two-year battle with cancer, Refinitiv data showed. In May, Collymore, 61, had said he would stay in his position for
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MPs on the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) are suspecting collusion among the officials in the Judiciary to embezzle Shs34.1bn taxpayers’ money. During a meeting between MPs and Judiciary at Parliament today, Kagole Kivumbi, Secretary to Judiciary refuted above figure, saying that they only mischarged Shs28.17bn. He said that some of
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Several Ugandans took to social media on Sunday night to express their disappointment over the failure by the National Broadcaster, Uganda Broadcasting Cooperation (UBC) to broadcast the match between Uganda Cranes and Egypt. Although UBC had resumed broadcasting the African Cup of Nations-Afcon on June 26th 2019, following negotiations with
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