The Uganda Police Force has launched an electronic Express Penalty System (EPS) that will help crack down on errant drivers. Speaking at the launch of the system on Monday, Traffic Police Director, AIGP Steven Kasiima said in the past they faced a number of challenges including illiteracy levels of traffic police officers whereas many drivers defaulted on payments. “There were challenges in reconciling the records with Uganda Revenue Authority whereas some offenders didn’t want to pay the tickets given to them,” AIGP Kasiima said. “You find a taxi driver with tickets worth five million shillings not yet paid and this…
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The Kyabazinga of Busoga yesterday Instituted a Roll of Honours for Basoga Men and Women who have Distinguished themselves in public life as transformational leaders, Servants and inspirations to the People. The Honours are Categorized in 3 tiers: The Sir William Wilberforce Gabula Nadiope II Medal for distinguished service to Humanity. Awarded to men and organizations which have transformed the lives of many. The Source of the Nile (Eninha ya Kiira) Medal awarded to achievers and innovative People and Organizations whose dids promote and preserve the pride of Busoga. The Omwoyo Gwa Busoga Medal awarded to exemplary people and organizations…
Court in Arua has this morning cleared Member of Parliament for Mityana Municipality Francis Zaake of the offence of escaping from custody. In February this year, Zaake was arrested in Kampala and transferred to Arua where he was charged for escaping lawful custody before being released on bail. This morning however, Arua Grade One Magistrate Swaleh Asiku ruled that the MP was not a suspect since the police managed to leave him at the hospital unguarded. He acquitted him and said he has no case to answer in that regard. Zaake said that he was brutalised and kept in unknown…
The Managing Director of Bank of Baroda Ashwini Kumara found a difficult time explaining to the commission of inquiry into land matters how the bank advanced a loan to a dead person. The commission heard that the bank had given the late Joseph Maria Sseruwo Shs 51 million in September 1994, a month after he had died. Yet what shocked the commission is that the bank went ahead to sell the plot of the deceased for “defaulting on the Shs 51 million loan that he did not take. The matter was brought to the commission’s attention by Sseruwo’s widow. In…
The government of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is selling off his country’s gold reserves. Some of it has passed through a secretive operation in East Africa, a gambit that evades U.S. sanctions. On two early-March flights, at least 7.4 tons of gold with a market value over $300 million moved from Venezuela to a refinery in Uganda, say officials in Venezuela and Uganda, a foreign diplomat and Venezuelan opposition lawmakers, who have concluded Mr. Maduro’s government exported the ingots. The gold arrived on a Russian charter jetliner in two shipments at the international airport in Entebbe, says Ugandan national-police spokesman…
Patoranking, the AFRIMA Best Dancehall artist 2016 is officially announcing his highly acclaimed album titled Wilmer in Uganda. The album was officially released to the world on May 24th 2019 by Amari Musiq/EMPIRE. FOMO for the album started with Patoranking teasing an upcoming collaboration earlier on in January and finally announced the dates with a poetic open letter to his newborn daughter WILMER. The 12- track album houses features/ collabos from Nyashinski, Donae’O, Busiswa, Davido and many other multi-talented acts. The most celebrated tracks on the album are; Wilmer, Temperature, Nakupenda, Turn Up and Confirm; the collaboration with DaVido. We…
Many of us are always looking out for the cheaper options when buying goods. The place known to many people is “Kikuubo” where you will get products at relatively cheap prices. Kikuubo serves as the whole sale go to place for many duukas, super markets, wholesalers and retailers alike. The products that Kikuubo offers are mainly Fast Moving Consumer Goods like Oil, Fat, Soap, Sugar, Salt, Baking Powder, Pastas, Noodles, Spaghetti, Spices, Snacks, Biscuits, Juices, Tea, Coffee, packed Milk, Milk Powder, Flavored Milk, Sodas, Sprits, Water, Sanitary Pads, Diapers, Tissue Papers, Toilet Rolls, Tooth Pastes, Tooth Brushes, Pens, Pencils, Exercise…
The anti-narcotic unit under the Aviation police is holding one Jhinkole Rai alias Ruben a Dutch national for allegedly unlawfully possessing Narcotic drugs, he was intercepted yesterday at about 1:00 pm while at the departures hold baggage screening machine. He was destined to travel to Italy aboard Emirates and was intercepted with two suitcases , containing altogether 59 (fifty nine) packages each labeled “chococino special ” and “richer chocolate taste” . The packeges had a cream powdered substance suspected to be nacortics to it suspected HEROIN concealed in them . The total gross weight for the 59packages was weighed and…
A five-year-old boy who tested positive for Ebola in Kasese District in western Uganda has died, a health ministry official said Wednesday, in the first spread of a deadly outbreak in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo. “The boy who tested positive for Ebola in Kasese yesterday passed on last night in the isolation unit,” the official told AFP on condition of anonymity. “The minister for health (Ruth Aceng) will be briefing the country about the death of the boy and arrangements to bury the body.” The official said the child was likely to be buried Wednesday. Uganda’s health ministry on…
MTN Group has launched Africa’s first Mobile Money (MoMo) artificial intelligence service or “chatbot”. The chatbot went live in Ivory Coast in May and will be rolled out across MTN’s MoMo footprint in the next few months. The artificial intelligence mobile money “assistant” enables customers to engage with MTN’s MoMo services, including payments, on various social media platforms such as WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, and via SMS. The service will also be included over time, in MTN’s own newly released advanced instant messaging service “Ayoba”. The chatbot is an artificial intelligence guide that assists users to navigate MTN’s MoMo services…