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Officers at Fort Portal Central Police Station in Kabarole district have in custody Pius Tumuhimbise, a Uganda People's Defense Forces-UPDF soldier for allegedly shooting his colleague and two civilians while drunk

The United Kingdom should begin delivering aid to Uganda independently, instead of sending it through corrupt government officials, Stockton South MP Dr Paul Williams has suggested.

The minister for finance Hon. Matia Kasaija has denied media reports of government’s uncontrolled borrowing which weekend newspapers argued would increase Uganda’s debt burden. 

Police in Sembabule are holding nine members of a criminal gang that has been terrorizing residents in the sub counties of Mabindo and Lugusuulu.

Makerere University Business School-MUBS, have announced a strike after unsuccessful attempts by Public Universities to secure salary enhancement arrears from the government. 

Police at Old Kampala Station has in custody two men in connection with the murder of two young women aged between 20 and 24, whose bodies were found rotting in a rented room in Kakeeka village, Rubaga division. 

Former boda boda 2010 leader, Hajji Abdullah Kitatta has this afternoon denied owning a gun, live bullets and possessing any military uniforms in his 40 years of life.

Former Inspector General of Police, Gen. Kale Kayihura has this morning appeared at the military court in Makindye as part of his Bail conditions.

The opposition Forum for Democratic Change, FDC party spokesperson Hon. Ssemujju Nganda has advised President Yoweri Museveni to take lessons from the coup in Gabon where military took over country in a coup last evening.

Hell is breaking loose in Ugandan parliament after the opposition Forum for Democratic Change, FDC Party leadership castigated the speaker Rebecca Kadaga for ignoring their choice of members of Parliament's Commissions, Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises (COSASE) committee. 

Kampala Capital City Authority will in the next 6 months focus on achieving improvement in infrastructure, drainage, street lighting, waste management, revenue administration and economic empowerment of vulnerable groups among other activities.

Makerere University will not allow staff that abscond from duty to remain on the institution’s payroll, the vice chancellor prof. Barnabas Nawangwe has warned.