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Updated: 25 Jul, 11:4111:41

• Napak Constrained By Lack of Judicial Services

  25 Jul 2017, 11:09 33 Views

  Solomon Muyita, the Judiciary Spokesperson says Napak is on the list of districts to benefit from court facilities soon. He notes that with the proposed recruitment of magistrates, Napak and other piloted districts will be covered.

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• School Guard Killed in Sembabule

  25 Jul 2017, 11:02 60 Views

  Police are investigating circumstances under which a guard at Uganda Martyrs Secondary school in Sembabule town council was killed. The deceased has been identified as Yiyoyita Damaseke. His body was found this morning in the school flower garden covered in blood.

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• Rubanda Woman Held Over Teenager Abduction

  25 Jul 2017, 10:31 89 Views

  Ely Maate, the Kigezi Police Spokesperson, says on interrogation, Tukamuhabwa confessed having abducted the teenager and directed them to the house of Margret Tumwebaze in Ikumba village in Shebeya Parish in Hamurwa Sub County, where the girl was found.

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• Hoima Politicians Bicker Over Kikuube District Boundaries

  25 Jul 2017, 08:13 128 Views

  Political leaders in Hoima district continue to bicker over the proposed boundaries of the newly-created Kikuube district. Kikuube which was approved by parliament in 2015 is supposed to take the boundaries of Buhaguzi County as per the 2010 resolution of the Hoima district council.

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• Fresh Charges against MP Kahonda Politically Plotted – Lawyer

  25 Jul 2017, 07:46 134 Views

  Kahonda, a political rival of Justice Minister Maj Gen Kahinda Otafiire was on Friday picked from Kirinya Prison and produced before the Luweero Chief Magistrate Charles Sserubuga and charged with two fresh counts of forgery and uttering false documents.

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• Medics Turn Away Patients Citing Lack of Surgical Gloves

  25 Jul 2017, 07:44 147 Views

  Esther Nambozo, an attendant to a patient in the Acute ward told URN that she took blood samples to the main laboratory for testing but was turned away due to lack of gloves.

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• Thugs Target Worshippers in Gulu

  25 Jul 2017, 07:33 127 Views

  Church leaders in Holy Rosary Parish in Gulu Municipality are unhappy with a spate of thuggery happening in the churchs yard on Sundays.

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• Striking Staff Force Makerere to Delay Paying July Salaries

  25 Jul 2017, 07:27 102 Views

  Makerere University management has announced it will delay payment of July salary following a strike by the support staff in public universities. In a letter to staff, dated July 24th, the university secretary Charles Barugahare says the decision to delay payment of July salaries was agreed in a management meeting held on the same day.

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• Apac Parent Assaults Teacher For Caning Daughter

  25 Jul 2017, 07:17 111 Views

  Andrew Omuno, the Apac District Inspector of Schools says Okot dragged the teacher out of the classroom and assaulted him as pupils looked on.

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• Lock-down Continues as Universities Support Staff Maintain Strike

  25 Jul 2017, 07:14 126 Views

  A strike by the support staff at Ugandas public universities enters yet another day after Planning Minister David Bahati tried in vain to convince the staff to return to work.

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• 9 Held over Nansana Serial Murders

  25 Jul 2017, 06:54 112 Views

  Police spokesperson, Asan Kasingye, says police are still investigating the link between the suspects and their victims.

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• Police Impounds Gulu Bus Over Accident

  24 Jul 2017, 21:00 170 Views

  Police in Gulu is holding a bus driver over an accident which left a couple dead in Oyam district on Sunday night. The dead are 23-year-old David Odong and his wife Eunice Kia.

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• Man Arrested With 1360 Rounds of Ammunition

  24 Jul 2017, 20:43 251 Views

  Moses Chelangat was arrested at Kibiito trading centre along the Fort Portal- Kasese road in the new district of Bunyangabu.

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• Landslide Kills One, Injures Another In Mbale

  24 Jul 2017, 18:11 189 Views

  One person has been confirmed dead and another seriously injured in Wanale Sub County Mbale district following deadly mudslides that hit the area on Sunday.

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• Mixed Reactions Over Haste Trial and Conviction of Killer Police Officer

  24 Jul 2017, 17:32 163 Views

  The last time convicts were executed publicly by firing squad in Uganda was on March 25, 2002 for the murder of an Irish priest. Corporal James Omedio and Private Abdallah Muhammad were tied to trees with blindfolds and shot to death by a firing squad in the town of Kotido town.

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• MP Kahonda Bail Ruling Deferred to Thursday Top story

  24 Jul 2017, 17:19 221 Views

  The Jinja High Court has today deferred its ruling on Ruhinda County MP Donozio Kahondas bail application to Thursday July 27th.

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• Land Wrangles Threaten Four Schools in Luweero

  24 Jul 2017, 17:10 201 Views

  Luweero District Education Officer Florence Bbosa says that the schools got the land as donations from landlords, some of whom died before processing land titles for them. In such cases, relatives to the deceased have taken advantage of the loophole to sell part of the land on which the said schools sit.

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• IGG Voices Frustration Over Land Grabbing

  24 Jul 2017, 16:26 363 Views

  The IGG, Lady Justice Irene Mulyagonja was appearing before the Commission of Inquiry into Land matters in relation to a controversial land grab involving Plot 60/62 Alidina road in Jinja Municipality. The land in question belonged to Privatization Unit under the African Trade Development Fund.

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• Over 600 Pupils Study Under Appalling Conditions

  24 Jul 2017, 16:01 262 Views

  Epenu Ebaju, the Amuria District Education Secretary confirmed the problems at the school. He however, says they were unable to plan for more classrooms at the school this financial year.

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• Fifa Agent Ivica To Resolve Micho, Fufa Issue

  24 Jul 2017, 16:00 157 Views

  South African based football agent, Ivica Stankovic will step in to try and resolve the on-going stand-off between Uganda Cranes head coach Milutin Micho Sredojevic and his employers Uganda FA.

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