VIDEO: Chief Justice Bart.M Katureebe has launched the sentencing guidelines committee intended to address the predicament judicial officers find themselves in while dispensing justice. The committee which will be headed by Principal Judge Jorakamu Bamwine, will among other tasks draw guidelines of sentencing, establish a research, monitoring and development program on sentences …
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The High Court has acquitted the widow of murdered businessman Eria Ssebunya Bugembe aka Kasiwukira. Sarah Nabikolo Ssebunya was acquitted Wednesday by Justice Wilson Masalu Musene but her co-accused, including cousin sister Sandra Nakungu and a Muyenga-based policeman Jayden Ashiraf, were found guilty and convicted for the 2014 murder of …
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VIDEO: Parliament has ordered five Chinese construction companies to refund  sh32 billion out of sh47.7 billion remitted to to them by UNRA. The contractors had a tough time before the Parliamentary Committee of Commissions, State Authorities and State Enterprises after failing to explain why they failed to compensate people affected by the roads construction and …
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The Uganda Cancer Institute has settled the controversy surrounding the purchase and construction of the radiotherapy bunker , saying a consensus has been reached. According to the Director of Uganda Cancer Institute Dr. Jackson Orem, the disagreement between the institute and the ministry of Health on who to be contracted to …
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Myko Ouma self-effacingly dismisses it when I tell him he is considered by many people to be one of the best guitarists in the country. “About best guitarist, I don’t know,” he says. In reality, he is a renowned jazz and contemporary world music artiste who plays more than ten …
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The Constitutional Court has been forced to repeat the hearing of an application filed by a concerned citizen Twaha Sanywa challenging government’s decision to spend sh64 billion shillings on car purchases by the members of the 10th Uganda Parliament. This after Justice Richard Buteera informed the parties in this case that …
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VIDEO: The minister of internal affairs General Jeje Odong has revealed government is in advanced stages of secring funds from alternative sources to help improve services in all prisons nationwide. This was during a maiden tour of the Luzira Prisons premises on the shores of Lake Victoria. Irene Namaja was …
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VIDEO: In the 90’s Ugandan teams were the weak link when it came to zonal basketball. To those of little faith, Ugandan clubs would never contest in continental affairs. After Friday, the story has changed, a Ugandan basketball club, City Oilers convincingly won the Africa Zone  V Championships. How it all …
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Members of the Parliamentary Committee on the National Economy want the banking industry to do something about the sky-high lending rates. The MPs made the appeal at a meeting with the Uganda Bankers Association in Kampala on Oct.03. The MPs organised the meeting to understand why interest rates in Uganda …
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Questions as Health ministry proposes stringent guidelines on enrollment The mood at Nakasero Primary School in Kampala on Oct.01 was similar to a movie shooting scene gone wrong – bitter exchanges and mean stares were flying about. The unpleasant body language of medical interns to-be as Dr. Jacinto Amandua, the …
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