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  • Uganda CAA annouces plans to remodel departure area of Entebbe airport

    (eTN) - Travelers using the Entebbe International Airport have for long been suffering the inconvenience of being made to walk long distances from the car parking to the main terminal, often subjected to pouring rain, as a result of the security requirement to keep vehicles away from the terminal. 'Entebbe is the only airport in the region where you cannot drive up to the terminal and ...

  • Kenya South Sudan and Uganda Pipeline poker

    IN MARCH last year the heads of state of Kenya, Ethiopia and South Sudan met among mangroves in Lamu, a Kenyan town on the Indian Ocean, to launch the construction of a port and oil pipeline together costing $16 billion that would serve all their countries and vastly enrich them. Taxpayers were billed $350,000 for the celebratory meal, according to local officials, though it actually cost only ...

  • Man Jailed for Defrauding Toro Queen Mother

    A court has sentenced a 27-year-old man to five-years in jail for defrauding the Toro queen mother, Best Kemigisha of USD 60,000 (approximately sh150m). Ibrahim Nsimbe alias Moses Kyeyune was convicted on Wednesday by trial magistrate Patrick Wekeasa at Nakawa Court in Kampala and ordered to pay back the money, after serving his sentence. "He should serve his sentence and pay back the ...

  • Those Airbags Will Save Your Life

    In the early hours of Saturday night, a week ago, veteran politician Jaberi Bidandi Ssali drove from Kampala, to his Bukoto home. In the car, a Toyota Premio was Saddam Gayiira, a politician with Bidandi's political party, the People's Progress Party (PPP). As they drove around the Kisaasi-Ntinda by pass round about, Bidandi lost control of the vehicle and rammed into a truck, coming ...

  • Uganda Super League Goes to Court

    Uganda Super League (USL) Limited has in its stand-off with Education and Sports Ministry turned to the constitutional court for guidance. The petition follows Minister Jessica Alupo's directive that USL be deregistered. Alupo made several recommendations stripping USL of powers to run football. The nine-page petition questions the powers of the minister to issue such a directive without ...

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The Winslow Boy

David Mamet, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and filmmaker who has created an indelible name for himself writing hard-hitting modern American dramas and complex mysteries involving con games, seems like the least likely candidate in the world to adapt "The Winslow Boy," Terence Rattigan's 1946 play about a proud British family that uses its entire family fortune to defend one of their own a ... ...

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  • URA Blames Agents for Truck Pile Up At Malaba

    The Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) has accused the clearing agents at Malaba border for the continuous truck pile up that has caused a daily traffic jam on the Malaba-Tororo highway during morning and evening hours. URA eastern regional manager Geoffrey Balamaga said whereas the tax body has employed staff to work on 24-hour basis under the one border stop centre system, the clearing agents are ...

  • Wakiso Man Admits Defiling Own Daughter

    A 37-year-old man has been remanded to Luzira Prison after he admitted defiling his 12-year-old daughter. Denis Ssebugwawo, a resident of Kinawa, Nsangi sub-county, Wakiso district was on Wednesday sent back to Luzira by Mwanga II Court chief magistrate, Emmanuel Baguma, after he pleaded guilty to the offence. "I admit the case and I ask for forgiveness from all those affected, including ...

  • Makerere - College of Engineering Design Art and Technology

    The College of Engineering, Design, Art and Technology (CEDAT) congratulates the Nordic Countries on their National Day. CEDAT is proud to be associated with the Nordic Countries which have greatly supported the College. For the last 12 years the governments of Sweden through Sida/SAREC and Norway through NORAD/NUFU have sponsored different projects at CEDAT. Sida and NUFU have sponsored PhD ...

  • Former Amavubi Coach Joins Uganda Cranes

    Former Amavubi coach Milutin 'Micho' Sredojevic is the new Uganda Cranes coach after signing a two-year deal. Micho was sacked last month after a poor run of results but shortly before that he had been sighted in Kampala watching a league match after the sacking of Cranes coach Bobby Williamson. This paper was the first to report that Micho had travelled to Kampala to lobby for the ...

  • Tax Collections On Imports Decline

    Uganda registered a revenue shortfall of sh583b against April's target of sh614b, the Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) announced on Tuesday. The tax authority said it registered shortfall in taxes levied on imported products and goods. April's revenue from international trade was sh257b against a set target of sh296.91b, blamed on the decline in petroleum duty withholding taxes and ...

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