Police Deploys at Crane Bank Amidst BOU Take Over Rumor
Police have heavily deployed at the Headquarters of Crane Bank Uganda on Kampala Road, amidst reports that the Bank is being taken over by the Central Bank. An official from Crane Bank informed us on...
View ArticleKabaziguruka Edges to Freedom as DPP Drops Out of Case
High Court Judge Justice Yasin is set this afternoon to deliver his ruling on the bail application filed in court in which Nakawa MP Michael Kabaziguruka seeks be released on bail from Kigo Prison...
View ArticleVIDEO: Crane Bank Will Remain Open, Says Mutebile
As Crane Bank depositors still taking in the startling reports of the takeover of the bank by Bank of Uganda, Prof Emmanuel Tumusiime Mutebile, the Central Bank Governor has reassure that the bank will...
View ArticleMP Michael Kabaziguruka Released on Bail
High court judge Justice Yasin Nyanzi has Thursday released Nakawa Municipality Mp Michael Kabaziguruka on cash bail of Shs. 5million and a bond of 10million non-cash. His four sureties on the other...
View ArticleWomen Front Matembe to Head Electoral Commission
Women under the Uganda women’s Network (UWONET) have petitioned the speaker of parliament demanding to take over the leadership of country’s Electoral Commission. The petition to the Speaker of...
View ArticleKabaziguruka Speaks Out Upon Release from Jail
Jailed Nakawa Municipality Mp Hon Michael Kabaziguruka has promised his constituents that he will continue representing their views in Parliament regardless of the huddles that kept him out for three...
View ArticleKenyatta Pardons 7,000 Petty Offenders
Kenya President Uhuru Kenyatta has pardoned 7,000 petty offenders who are about to clear their sentences. ChimpReports understands the President on Thursday invoked the Power of Mercy that allows him...
View ArticleCrane Bank Rwanda is ‘Stable and Strong’ – Central Bank
In the wake of the unprecedented takeover of Crane Bank Uganda Limited by Bank of Uganda, the former’s Rwandan Subsidiary has been confirmed to be “stable” and unaffected by the developments in...
View ArticleRwanda, Uganda Police Toughen on Cross-border Crimes
The Uganda Police Force and the Rwanda National Police Forces yesterday strengthened their bilateral cooperation to combat cross-border and transnational crimes. In a meeting at Lake View Hotel in...
View ArticlePolice, Residents Fight for Buffalo Meat
Residents of Rwensambya village in Keihangara sub-county, Ibanda district on Thursday clashed with the local police over meat of a stray buffalo, which was killed after it injured a woman. Locals...
View ArticleAUPL: ‘Goal Machine’ Sserunkuma Helps KCCA Arrest Police
Defending champions KCCA FC extended their lead at the Azam Uganda Premier League table on Friday, beating Police FC, three goals to nil in a match played at Lugogo. Prodigal son Geoffrey Sserunkuma’s...
View ArticlePope Francis, PM Netanyahu Write to Museveni
President Yoweri Museveni has received a message from the Prime Minister of Israel, Mr. Benjamin Netanyahu, expressing his heartfelt appreciation for the wonderful reception extended to him and his...
View ArticleSouth Sudan Committed to EAC Integration Despite Expulsion Calls
By Roger Alfred Yoron Despite calls for expulsion from the East African Community EAC which it has just joined, the government of South Sudan says amending its laws to confirm with the Treaty and...
View ArticleUN Mission in South Sudan Boss Steps Down
The United Nation’s Special Representative and Head of the Mission in South Sudan, Ellen Margrethe Løj has written to the world’s body’s headquarters in New York stating announcing her retirement next...
View ArticleUganda Ranked World’s Second Best Organic Foods Producer
Uganda has been crowned the second largest organic producer in the world after India. Reporters were told Saturday that Uganda has the fastest growing organic market globally, with 1.2 smallholder...
View ArticleUganda, South Sudan Police Chiefs Hold Talks in Kampala
Police chiefs from Uganda and South Sudan have Saturday held bilateral talks in Kampala to follow up on the joint operations as agreed in a Memorandum of Understanding signed in 2013. Top on agenda was...
View ArticleMbarara: Woman Arrested for Stealing 2-day-old Baby
Police in Mbarara is holding a 28yr old woman suspected of stealing a toddler from Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital. The Hospital Director Celestine Barigye said that Kiconco Monica (mother of the...
View ArticleSula Matovu Wins 2016 National Pool Championship
National pool championship finals Sula Matovu 7-5 Fred Namanya The record still stands. No one has ever defended the national pool championship title and it was the same case this year as Sula Matovu...
View ArticleUS Ambassador: South Sudan Unity Government Divorced
The United States Ambassador to South Sudan, Mary Catherine Phee has said the Transitional Government of National Unity is no longer a single administration for the interest of its citizens. Speaking...
View ArticleKadaga Voted Chair of African Parliaments at IPU Assembly
Speaker of Parliament Hon Rebecca Alitwala Kadaga has been elected to head the African Geo-Political Group at the ongoing International Parliamentary Union (IPU) Assembly in Geneva. The IPU Assembly...
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