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AIG Uganda, a subsidiary of American insurance giant AIG has rebranded itself to Chartis, and adopted a more efficient and leaner operation.
When James Kazini commanded Ugandan troops, during that country's second successive military expedition in neighbouring Congo Democratic Republic, back in 1999, his rank was that of brigadier-general.
Elizabeth, 21, was the 17th housemate to be evicted from the Big Brother Revolution, the M-Net reality show, last Sunday. The Tanzanian talked to Nigel Nassar about her repulsion towards romance in the house.
MEMBERS of Parliament, a short while ago, queried the issue of different fuel prices at different pump stations. Sseguya Lubyayi, the vice-chairman of the tourism, trade and industry committee, said either stations selling fuel expensively are cheating the public or those selling cheaply, could be adulterating the fuel, tampering with pumps or smuggling fuel into the country.
LOCAL government minister Adolf Mwesige has called for an investigation into the reported mental illness of the Masaka Municipality mayor, 75-year-old Tebyasa Matovu.
AGNES Tamwogeraku, an undergraduate student at Makerere University, collapsed and died last week during a group discussion.John Ekudu, the dean of students, rubbished reports that the student had died after being stopped from sitting for a test because she had failed to pay a fees balance of sh200,000.
THE case filed by Prince Wambuzi Muloki against acting Kyabazinga (king) of Busoga, Daudi Wakhooli, at Jinja High Court is delaying elections of a new one.
DEBATE on the controversial Land Amendment Bill, 2007, started in Parliament on Thursday, with the Speaker and MPs flexing legal muscle.
TWENTY-SIX people on Thursday drowned after their boat capsized in Lake Victoria.The victims were travelling from Lugala to Hama Islands.
LARGE scale maize farmers in Busoga region have urged the Government to build storage and collection centres, install cleaning and drying facilities to enable them to produce maize that meet international standards.
THE Government is to introduce a contributory pensions scheme in order to address the problem of inadequate funds to cater for the increasing recurrent pensions budget.
A CITY tycoon and Forum for Democratic Change party financier, and a top bank manager were on Thursday charged with stealing sh89.6m belonging to Centenary Bank.
AN expectant policewoman was among five people who died in a grisly motor accident that occurred in Mabira Forest on Thursday evening.
ONE kilometre south east of Odek trading centre in Gulu, a group of 10 youth are helping to dig the grave where Kony's mother Norah Anek Oting will be buried.
THE Institute of Surveyors of Uganda should discipline errant members who cause construction accidents, the Government has said.
THE US government has tripled its funding towards family planning and reproductive health activities in Uganda to $15m (over sh28b) this year.
THE Government is to create eight more districts, bringing the total number of new ones to 22. Uganda currently has 80 districts.
WHO will stand up for the Kyambogo Warriors? Just who will help them break their playoff jinx against the Mountain Dew Falcons?
The Bank of Uganda still clears an average of 5,000 cheques daily despite efforts to change the country's economy from a cash-based one to electronic.
The simmering rivalry for continental pre-eminence between Libya's President Muammar Gaddafi and Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni is bringing them both into company they would not normally be associated with, confirming the maxim that "politics makes for strange bedfellows."
JAMES Bananukye Kazini was born in 1957. He is a Musongora from Kasese, although his parents migrated to Ssanga in Kiruhura district, where he was buried yesterday.
THE body of the late Maj. Gen. James Kazini was on Friday afternoon laid to rest at his country home in Ssanga, Kiruhura district in the presence of an estimated 2,000 mourners.
LT Col Mawa Dula Muhindo, who has been by Kazini's side for 20 years, calls him his mentor and guardian. He spoke to John B. Thawite about his life under Kazini and the famous battle he will never forget.
MAJ. Gen. James Kazini was killed by blows on the head, according to the postmortem report. An expert privy to the diagnosis disclosed that the object that hit Kazini fractured his skull.
The East African community doesn't apply here, the immigration official at this Northern Tanzanian airport barked out at my attempt to seek a more East African reception with my Ugandan passport as I processed my entry into Tanzania recently. My illusion of a concretising vision of one East Africa was swiftly and rudely dashed.
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