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DETECTIVES from the Criminal Investigation Directorate (CID) yesterday interrogated five officials of Kyambogo University over death threats directed at the vice-chancellor, Prof Isaiah Ndiege.
HEATED debate on the Land Amendment Bill continued in the House yesterday with MPs of the ruling NRM arguing that the law was long overdue, while opposition MPs described it as unnecessary.
THE Uganda National Bureau of Standards does not have enough staff to monitor goods entering the country on the Sudan and the Democratic Republic Congo borders.
THE Deputy Chief Justice, Laetitia Mukasa Kikonyogo, has urged the Electoral Commission to conduct free and fair elections at all times.
MUKONO Police are hunting for unknown people suspected to have sacrificed a child and dumped the body in Nakawolole brick quarry in Kitete.
PARLIAMENT has summoned the internal affairs minister, Kirunda Kivenjinja, to explain why the Anti-Stock Theft Unit (ASTU) officers have not been paid salaries for about two years.
HIGH Court in Kampala yesterday rejected Godfrey Kwizera's application for an interim order restraining local soccer governing body FUFA from holding its elective assembly.
NATIONAL soccer governing body FUFA is seeking government support to send Cranes to defend their CECAFA Senior Challenge Cup crown. The federation says court cases have left them financially crippled.
MAKERERE University team A started brightly in the Uganda Squash Rackets Association (USRA) inter clubs league last week, surging to the summit of the table, reports Phillip Corry.
CALM returned to Makerere University after it emerged that sh50m had been approved for the teams to participate in inter-university games over which students rioted on Tuesday.
KCC Leopards coach Timothy Odeke has shot down suggestions that his side will be favourites in the MTN-FUBA women's playoff finals against A1 Challenge. Many will fancy the Leopards in Game 1 of the best-of-seven series at YMCA today.
DORCUS Inzikuru makes a comeback to the roads of Kampala with a mission to reclaim the MTN Kampala International marathon women's 10km title she won in 2004.
AN investigation into the mismanagement of the soccer federation funds took another twist yesterday, after the criminal investigation department at Old Kampala Police Station preferred to summon the entire former federation executive led by Denis Obua for questioning.
THE Police in Mubende district are holding a 24-year-old woman for allegedly killing her husband. Regina Nakanjako is suspected to have killed Richard Ssegamwenge following a quarrel over food on Sunday night.
THE Police are holding four suspected robbers, two of them UPDF soldiers, accused of robbing a businessman.
A strong hailstorm left 10 families homeless in Mbalala, Kasenge and Nakapinyi villages in Nama sub-county, Mukono district on Sunday evening.
THE Government has allocated food relief to the disadvantaged families and schools affected by drought. The disaster and relief state minister, Musa Ecweru, told authorities over the weekend that the intervention was ordered by President Yoweri Museveni.
THE speaker of Masaka municipal council, Denis Majwala, stunned the councillors when he declined a request from the family of the mayor, John Tebyasa Matovu, to take him to hospital.
SURVIVORS of leprosy in Gulu and Amuru districts have received 15 uniports. The survivors, most of whom lost their fingers and toes, are not able to work to earn a living.
THE Police on Monday impounded 42 jerrycans of the killer waragi in Olilim sub-county in Lira district.
Hundreds of Congolese women in Gulu district have asked the Government to repatriate them home.
Development partners have advised that the operationalisation of the Road Fund is delayed by another year until effective structures and accountability systems are in place.
He is like a signature in Masaka town and the whole district. However, for the last two years, he has been losing his grip on the mayoral seat. The municipality has been virtually stumbling since the once effective mayor, John Tebyasa Matovu, disappeared due to ill-health.
THE 14-year-old girl from Bushenyi who stoned to death a 40-year-old man whom she accused of trying to rape her yesterday failed to get released on Police bond because there was nobody to stand surety for her.
ACCORDING to newspaper reports of the proceedings of the recent meeting of the Buganda lukiiko (parliament) some members objected to the meeting between President Yoweri Museveni and Kabaka Ronald Muwenda Mutebi arguing that it was contrary to Buganda culture for the Kabaka to discusss political or constitutional issues.
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