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VIDEO: Soccer governing body Fufa is seeking legal action against a group of ex-internationals that attacked FUFA House and ravaged property on Monday  Moses Magogo, announced the federations move during weekly press briefing at the federation headquarters in Mengo.     Share on: WhatsApp

VIDEO: Controversial Kampala City tycoon Hassan Bassajjabalaba has alleged that the Inspector General of Police General Kale Kayihura and Kampala Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago are involved in the said misappropriation of at least sh19 billion collected at the City Abattoir over the last six years. Appearing before the Presidential affairs committee of …

Rally driver Ponsiano Lwakataka has petitioned the Kampala High Court seeking compensation of over sh40 billion shillings for what he says was malicious prosecution. In the case he filed against Attorney General and police officer Twaha Semanda,  Lwakataka says he was on  September 9,  2014 “arrested and maliciously prosecuted for …

Embattled Bridge International Academies have been dragged to the Kampala High Court by human rights watchdog Legal Brains Trust Ltd for alleged violation of children’s rights when it operated pre-primary and primary education without a license. The NGO contends that the Bridge schools continued to operate despite inadequate sanitation and buildings which …

Kampala, Uganda | AFP |  Uganda’s police said Tuesday they had nabbed a con man suspected of swindling a Polish weapons manufacturer into signing a bogus 120-million dollar arms deal. BMP Poland inked the multi-million dollar deal with the man, named as Sam Ssimbwa, who had presented himself to the …

Parliament on Tuesday defied President Yoweri Museveni’s directive to have the Income Tax (Amendment) Bill, 2016 amended to allow MPs’ allowances to be taxed. “The Committee recommends that the Tax Bill be passed in its current form, and be sent back to the president for assent,” Henry Musasizi, the chairperson …

Uganda’s Deputy Chief Justice Steven Kavuma has assured that public that the Court of Appeal is committed to hear and conclude all the over 140 election appeals within the stipulated time frame of six months. Kavuma, who is the head of the Court of Appeal, says the court has sufficient funds and ten justices, …

Daniel Okalany is the founder of Kola Studios, a local mobile game development company in Uganda. It’s most popular game is Matatu, which is a two player card game based on a local cards game in Uganda of the same name. The game has about 200,000 down loads with about 68% …

Nakumatt: Unstable US$150m debt sends jitters among retail supermarket suppliers Business at Nakumatt supermarkets in Uganda has been slowly declining for months but recent persistent reports that all is not well at the parent company of the Kenya-based regional retail giant may have made a bad situation worse. The Nakumatt …

What it says about politics of education provision The High Court in Kampala on Nov.4 confirmed the closure of Bridge International Academies, the American-owned schools that operate in Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, and India and funded by American billionaires Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg and institutions such as CDC, IFC, and …