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Day: January 19, 2023

MUESVENI COMMISSIONS OIL TRAINING FACILITIES KIGUMBA .

MUESVENI COMMISSIONS OIL TRAINING FACILITIES KIGUMBA .

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President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has commissioned training facilities at Uganda petroleum institute Kigumba with a call to the civil servants and members of Parliament to stop wasting government funds on external trips citing the money would be invested in lucrative sectors like Oil. Amongst the facilities commissioned by the president was the electrical workshop, petroleum operation workshop, Instrumentation workshop and Mechanical workshop all worthy 57 billion shillings from the world bank under the albertine region sustainable developments project. Leaders in Bunyoro sub region led by the Kiryandongo district Chairperson Edith Aliguma Adyeri lauded the NRM government for boosting the education sector in the region and these institutes have skilled a number of childrens in the region, B...
Speaker Among calls out COSASE for poor performance.

Speaker Among calls out COSASE for poor performance.

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The Speaker of Parliament Anita Among has revealed that the Parliamentary Committee on Commissions, State Authorities and State Enterprises has been the worst accountability committee in the House. “It’s you people (COSASE) who have failed. We have invested a lot of money in the committee but we have not got results,” calling for an audit into the performance of the committee. According to Among, out of the 111 reports that were supposed to be produced by COSASE, only 4 have been presented before the House making it the worst performing committee in the House. She said Parliament invested a lot of money in the committee but it has not got results because the House had six months to consider and pronounce itself on the reports. She the six months have passed but the reports are not ready. ...
World’s fastest man robbed millions of dollars in fraud scheme

World’s fastest man robbed millions of dollars in fraud scheme

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They threaten civil and criminal action if the money is not returned within 10 days. Lawyers for Usain Bolt, one of the world’s greatest sprinters, said Wednesday that more than $12.7 million is missing from his account with a private investment firm in Jamaica that authorities are investigating. Attorney Linton P. Gordon provided The Associated Press with a copy of a letter sent to Stocks & Securities Limited demanding that the money be returned. Gordon said Bolt’s account once had $12.8 million but now reflects a balance of only $12,000. “If this is correct, and we are hoping it is not, then a serious act of fraud larceny or a combination of both have been committed against our client,” Bolt’s attorneys say in the letter. They threaten civil and criminal action if the money is no...
Pastor remanded to prison for raping tourist.

Pastor remanded to prison for raping tourist.

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Ugandan pastor Joseph Collins Twahirwa of Epikaizo Ministries International in Bugoloobi has been remanded to Luzira prison on charges of raping a Latvian female tourist. After being frustrated by police at both Jinja Road and the CID, 36-year-old Latvian tourist Saulite Anda’s pliht was made public by a local newspaper. The court has been told that Collins, who works as both a pastor and a lawyer, had sex with Anda against her will on December 12, 2022, at his home in Munyonyo Zone in Kampala. In her testimony at CID, Anda claimed that Collins had invited her to Uganda after they had met through TikTok. She was picked up by Collins’ security team on December 11, 2022, but instead of taking her to a reserved apartment at Makindye, they took her to her tormentor’s house in Munyonyo. The vic...
Church Of Uganda Elect Former Rebel Leader’s Son Bishop of Mukono Diocese.

Church Of Uganda Elect Former Rebel Leader’s Son Bishop of Mukono Diocese.

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It was Moment of jubilation from the Mukono Diocese Christian community and family members of the re known Kagoddo family celebrated as the church of Uganda house of Bishops announced Rev. Ven. Enos Kitto Kagoddo as the new Bishop of Mukono Diocese. Rev. Ven Kagoddo is a son to Paul Kalule Kagoddo a former leader of Uganda Freedom Movement, UFM a rebel group that operated in the districts of Buikwe and Mukono in their quest to overthrow tyrant Milton Obote in the early 1980s. Later Kagoddo snr. joined his forces with that of the national resistance movement, NRA under the leadership of the current president, Yoweri Museveni Kaguta and they deposed Obote. At Nangwa village, is the country home for Kagoddo, here Ruth Kibirige the 98 year old mother of the Bishop said that really God has rewa...