The main goal of most smugglers is the “get-rich-quick” mission. They completely ignore the risks involved with smuggling and keep trying their luck. I am sure this is the same reasoning the smugglers recently caught in Mutukula had. From intelligence reports, they were repetitive offenders who often used porous routes through Mutukula to find their way to Kampala. Unfortunately, last Friday, their tricks could not match the URA surveillance operations. They were netted and their consolidation stores were busted in a very tight operation that involved area Chairperson and Police that forced open their stores. Here, they had continuously piled…
Author: Umoja Editor
By Okidi Patrick/ NORTHERN UGANDA CORRESPONDENT. DOKOLO: A group of NRM moblizers has organised a wonderful joint Medical Camp during the weekend(on Saturday 11th, November,2023) at Angwecibage Primary school play ground in Dokolo town council, Dokolo district. The event was lac ampanied by cooperate social responsibility of cleaning market area and the main Street of Dokolo town council,free health services,soap distribution and football match. The key moblizers in the event were Angola Peter Omiat, Sammy Ogwang former Vice Chairman LCV Dokolo district , Tonny Ocen NRM moblizer based in Lira City,Menya Stephen among others . All the activities took place…
At Kapkwata secondary school in Kween District, a fierce fight erupted inside a classroom, involving a teacher and a group of students, all sparked by a love affair. The incident, which unfolded on a Saturday morning, left the local community in disbelief and forced nearby traders to shut down their businesses temporarily. The tumultuous situation reportedly began with a love affair between a student and an unnamed lady. The student’s romantic involvement with the young lady had become a matter of concern, leading to disciplinary actions from the school teacher, Nathan Chelimo. The tension escalated when the teacher confronted the…
Police in Pader District are holding a primary school head over the disappearance of two female candidates who completed their Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE) last week. The head teacher of Oweka Primary School in Ogola Parish, Bongtiko Sub-county, Pader District was arrested on Saturday and taken to Pader Central Police Station after the missing girls’ parents told police their children never returned after completing their examinations last Thursday. Parents who spoke to this newspaper said that the children, who left the school to sit their examinations from another centre (Pajule Primary School) since the school lacks a centre number, said…
Three men who raped a nursing student have had their initial sentence reduced to 30 years. The Court of Appeal comprising Lady Justice Catherine Bamugemereire, Christopher Gashirabake, and Oscar Kihika found that the 50-year jail term that was handed to Ben Omollo, Patrick Ecudo, and Gabriel Elomunait was excessive. The three were on February 4th, 2011 found guilty by the then High Court Judge Margaret Oumo Oguli and jailed for 50 years for raping a nursing student at Jinja School of Nursing and Midwifery in 2010. The Court heard that on the night of March 14th, 2010, the student A.S.…
His Excellency the President of the Republic of Uganda, Gen. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has this evening arrived in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates at the invitation of His Highness, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the President of the United Arab Emirates and the ruler of Abu Dhabi. Receiving the president at the airport was His Excellency Sheikh Shakhboot Nahyan Al Nahyan, the Minister of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The two leaders are expected to hold bilateral talks on Monday 13th November 2023. The Presidential Press Unit will keep posted on events as they unfold.
Juliana Kanyomozi describes the birth of her second-born child Taj, as the happiest moment of her life. Born about six years after the devastating loss of her firstborn son Keron Kabugo, the new bundle of joy came more or less as redemption for the talented songstress. Yet her joy was short-lived as rumors started sprouting about who the father of the baby boy was. Many speculations went around, but perhaps the most outlandish of them all, she says, was that the baby’s father was none other than the First Son Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba. Juliana and her baby Taj “I cannot…
There is panic among parents and leaders after Wobulenzi Public Primary School in Luwero district was put on sale over failure to repay a loan. In 2019, Richard Mukasa former headteacher with the approval of the office of Luwero Chief Administrative Officer acquired a loan of 100 million Shillings from Equity Bank, Luwero branch. Mukasa mortgaged the land title of the government school to acquire the loan to buy a plot and construct staff houses. The school has 2, 300 pupils under Universal Primary Education and it has the biggest population of learners in the district. Since then the loan…
Three people, including a university student have died and five others severely injured after their joyride in a tricycle, commonly known as tuk-tuk, ended in tragedy. The injured are undergoing treatment at Lira Regional Referral Hospital after the driver of a Fuso truck lost control and rammed into their tricycle at Adyel along Lira-Kampala highway, about one kilometre from the heart of Lira City. Police said an unidentified driver lost control of a Fuso truck registration number UAW 395P at around 11pm Thursday and knocked the occupants of a tricycle registration number UEC 698A. Superintendent of Police (SP) Patrick Jimmy…
The Special Forces Command has distanced itself from the actions of two soldiers who were apprehended by the police on charges of alleged kidnapping and robbery. Police arrested four individuals, including two SFC soldiers, on Tuesday after intercepting the vehicle they were traveling in. On October 31, a laboratory technician named Bony Mfitemukiza, aged 25, reported a case of aggravated robbery to the police. He was kidnapped from the Africa Oil petrol station in Bulenga by three armed men on October 31. The assailants, armed with a pistol and a rifle, forcibly took him into his Toyota Noah vehicle (registration…