A crisis is looming in the Judiciary over lack of funds to facilitate judges to hear parliamentary election disputes.According to the Judiciary, 104 parliamentary petitions arising from the January 14 elections have been filed across the country.”I am …
The Court of Appeal is set to kick off a criminal appeals session in Masaka this morning, with a total of 41 appeals arising from High Court judgments, to be handled.Of the 41 appeals, 22 are appeals against the conviction of aggravated defilement, 14 …
Police are set to release the 2020 annual crime and traffic safety report today that indicates a drop in the volume of crimes by nearly nine per cent.Unofficial police figures indicate that there were 195,931 cases reported across the country in 2020 c…
The Katuna/Gatuna border between Uganda and Rwanda remains closed to human and cargo traffic more than two years after Rwandan President Paul Kagame ordered its closure.Mr Adonia Ayebare, Uganda’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United N…
Church of Uganda Archbishop Stephen Kaziimba has decried the rampant defilement and incest committed by relatives and parents and called the perpetrators to repent.Dr Kaziimba said there are fathers, uncles and cousins who have defiled their daughters …
A 13-year-old Primary Seven candidate in Mpigi District has given birth to a baby boy during a Mathematics examination in the ongoing Primary Leaving Examinations.The incident happened at St Balikuddembe Primary School, Jalamba Ward in Buwama Town Coun…
The Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) secretary for mobilisation in Lyantonde District and party chairperson for Lyantonde Town Council, Emmanuel Atuhaire, has been killed in Mbarara City.Atuhaire’s body was found dumped on a feeder road in Biharwe, a …
President Museveni has once more told police officers to stop corruption practices.Mr Museveni was meeting senior police officers led by the Deputy Inspector General of Police, Gen Paul Lokech, at State House Entebbe over the weekend.”I have strongly w…
In 2017, an American film called Get Out achieved such great acclaim that it would soon become among the most talked about films of that year. For any film to create the kind of buzz that Get Out did is superb. For a horror film to do so is extremely r…
The Mwambu family in Bamasaba cultural institution has endorsed Mr Jude Mike Mudoma from Buyobo Clan in Sironko District as the duly elected Umukukha of Inzu Ya Masaba amid protest from a parallel faction.The new Umukukha replaced the late Bob Mushikor…
Kampala — Makerere University’s finance and legal departments are under investigation over alleged corruption.Sources told Daily Monitor that the State House Anti-Corruption unit took away the university bursar, Mr Everest Bainomugisha, last Thursday f…
Police investigations into circumstances under which one Hardad Mubiru, a journalist attached to BTM TV in died, have revealed that he was involved in robbery in which another victim died in Kanyanya Quarter Zone.Mubiru’s body was last night found in K…
At least 20 fishermen in Kalangala District have been arrested on suspicion of engaging in fish poisoning.The suspects were arrested on Friday by soldiers from the Fisheries Protection Unit (FPU) of the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) with illega…