Customer Turns Killer: Bar Owner Stabbed to Death in Masaka district
A female bar owner has been brutally stabbed to death by a drunkard in Masaka district.
This tragic incident happened on April 16, 2024, in the wee hours of the morning in the market triangle in Kakyafu village in Nyendo, in Masaka district.
The deceased has been identified as Nalongo Florence Namugerwa, who was murdered by Sadiq Wasswa, alias Team Muhoozi, aged 40, an electrician in Kakyafu village.
According to preliminary investigations, it is alleged that Wasswa and Namugerwa might have gotten...
Equity Bank Fraud: Managing Director and 8 Staff Members Charged with Defrauding the Bank of over UGX 65 Billion
Uganda police working with the Equity Bank’s anti-fraud team have so far charged the Managing Director Onyango Kennedy and eight of the bank’s staff to court for defrauding the bank over UGX 65 billion.
SCP Enanga Fred, the Police Spokesperson, while addressing the Media on April 15, 2024 said that the eight persons were charged with obtaining money by false pretense, money laundering, and conspiracy to fraud at Equity Bank.
“The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) at Kampala Metropolitan has been working...
NEMA Halts Nakiyanja Wetland Encroachment in Wakiso
The National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) working with the Ministry of Water and Environment, and the Environment Protection Police Unit has halted the encroachment of the Nakiyanja wetland located at Sonde, Kira Municipality in Wakiso District.
NEMA made the revelation in a statement by its Corporate Communications Unit on April 9, 2024.
This comes after NEMA inspectors established that the degradation was allegedly occasioned by Ms. Genagri Limited who was misleading the inspectors with a certificate of approval No. ΝΕΜΑ/ΕΙΑ/15422 issued...
Newly Born Female Twin goes missing in Koboko; Hospital staff suspected
The Territorial Police in West Nile Region and Koboko CPS, are investigating the theft of a newly born female twin, from Koboko General Hospital which occurred on March 29th, 2024 at around 8 pm.
According to SCP Fred Enanga the Uganda Police spokesperson in a statement dated April 8, 2024, the matter was reported to police after 5 days and a total of eleven suspects, who form part of the Hospital staff were summoned and statements were recorded from them.
“The...
Leader of New Generation Traders Association John Kabanda in Bed with NUP to Frustrate Businesses in Kampala City Through Riots
According to information reaching this publication's news desk, John Kabanda self-acclaimed leader of the New Generation Traders Association and president of the controversial Federation of Uganda Traders Association could go to jail for conniving with NUP and other opposition political leaders to organize demonstrations among the business community in Kampala.
Revelations from the business community in Kampala have implicated Kabanda John, a known business mobilizer who tags himself as a freedom fighter in Kampala, of staging and fueling plans to...
Police in Zombo Arrest Electrician after Children Drown in Uncovered Pit
Police in Zombo district have arrested an electrician for abandoning a pithole latrine that killed two of his neighbor’s children after a heavy downpour.
Josephine Angucia, the police spokesperson for West Nile Region Police, stated that the man who is facing charges of causing two deaths by a rash and neglect act is identified as Francis Omirambe, aged 32, a resident of Alisithungu cell, Dwonga ward, Paidha Town Council, Zombo District.
Omirambe was arrested on April 5, 2024, for the tragic...
