Month: December 2011

With just days to Christmas day, transport fares continue to sky rocket due the increasing demand. Public transport fares have been increasing by the day since the beginning of December, a trend that the players in the transport industry to a number of factors including the high cost of fuel […]

Two officials from State House have been detained at Parliament for questioning in regard to compensation claims made to city tycoon, Hassan Basajjabalaba. The Head of legal affairs at State House, Joy Kabatsi and Edward Muhoozi had appeared before the Public Accounts Committee following a directive by President Museveni after […]

The death toll from yesterday’s grisly accident has hit seven. This is after one of the victims admitted at Mulago national referral hospital died this morning. The hospital spokesperson Dan Kimosho says Martin Okwela died shortly after surgery. He says that four of the victims have so far been discharged, […]

The High Court has acquitted former Vice President Prof. Gilbert Bukenya and the directors of Motor Care Uganda of any wrong doing in the CHOGM motorcycle purchase deal. Justice Paul Mugamba has ruled that the prosecution failed to prove that they committed any offence. The judge also observed that the […]

The minister for the Presidency Kabakumba Matsiko has resigned. She has made the announcement while addressing the media at parliament this afternoon. Her resignation follows numerous calls for her to step aside and allow invesigations into allegations that she illegally used UBC equipment at her private Masindi-based FM station. Flanked […]