Legal
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Elegu Market: Land owners demand relocation of vendors
ELEGU– The owners of pieces of land on which hundreds of vendors at the Elegu border market have been operating are demanding that the vendors should go off their land to pave…
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FBI warns US farm co-ops of cyber threats in planting and harvest seasons
US – Cyber attacks on agricultural co-ops are higher in the planting and harvest seasons, the FBI has warned. The US crime agency says ransomware actors will choose these crucial seasons because…
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UVCCL coffee deal: Investors want to mortgage govt land at Namanve
KAMPALA– Even though President Yoweri Museveni and NRM caucus Members of Parliament [MPs] have agreed to review the controversial coffee export deal signed between the government and Vinci Coffee Company Limited [UVCCL], the…
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Indian businessman killed in Kikuube lodge
KIKUUBE– Police in the Albertin region are investigating the circumstances under which an Indian businessman based in Hoima Municipality was murdered in Kikuube district by unknown suspects. The deceased, identified as Mike Sultan,…
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KCB suffers 58.3 percent fall in gross profit
KAMPALA– Kenya Commercial Bank [KCB] Uganda saw its gross profit plummet by 58.3 percent in 2021 to about Shs 12.3 billion from about Shs 19 bln recouped in 2020, its financial statements…
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Finance Trust Bank sees gross profit rise of 61.9 percent in 2021
KAMPALA– Finance Trust Bank has released a summary of financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2021, showing its profit before tax curve going up by 61.9 percent to about Shs 13.6…
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Grief engulfs country as three lionesses are electrocuted
RUBIRIZI– Tragedy hit staff at Queen Elizabeth National Park and the country at large after three lionesses died Tuesday morning as they encountered an electric fence of nearby Irungu hotel that hosts tourists.…
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Lira LC5 turns down minister’s letter to suspend land board
LIRA -The Lira district LC5 Chairperson, Richard Cox Okello Orik has turned down a directive by the Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Judith Nabakooba to suspend six members of the…
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Kikuube district officer arrested over misuse of co-operators’ assets
KIKUUBE – The State House Anti-Corruption Unit [ACU] in liaison with the Uganda Police has arrested the Kikuube district labour officer, Arthur Mpuuga, who doubles as the chairperson of Bunyoro Tulihamu Cooperative…
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District water engineer in trouble for diverting community water borehole
KIKUUBE – The Kikuube district water engineer Hillary Agondeze is in trouble for allegedly diverting water sources for the community of Rugwano village in Kinogozi parish Buhimba sub-county Kikuube. In the last…
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