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The expected appearance of the Inspector General of Police Kale Kayihura before the Makindye Chief Magistrates’ court over police brutality took a new twist Tuesday when three of the witnesses lined up by the petitioners in the matter bowed out of the case. They claimed the petitioners, some ministers and …

The United States has recommended that the United Nations Security Council authorize a force of 4,000 peacekeepers for South Sudan’s capital Juba after a recent outbreak of violence. The US circulated a draft resolution to the 15-member council that would approve a regional protection force “to use all necessary means, …

The Uganda Police has refuted allegations that it has deliberately refused to arrest one of its own; former DPC of the Kampala Central Police Station Aaron Baguma. Police says they have never been served with the DPP’s arrest warrant – only reading about them in the media. Baguma is accused …

Former Principal Accountant in the Ministry of Public Service Christopher Obey has pinned the Ministry of Finance over the pension mismanagement scam. Obey told the Anti – Corruption court in Kampala that the treasury failed to effectively control money sent to the Ministry of Public Service, leading to the scam. …

NBS: Government and striking university non teaching staff have failed to agree on modalities of ending the industrial action that would allow a new academic year to open as scheduled. The negotiations hit a dead end following conflicting explanations from finance minister Matia Kasaija and his technocrats on whether the …

THE Pride of Uganda is in the hands of 21 athletes who represent the country in the summer Olympics that officially opened in Rio on Friday . Those were the sentiments of President Yoweri Museveni s as he flagged off the 2nd batch of athletes to Brazil. The President urged …

  NBS: Presidential runner up Col Kizza Besigye has dismissed the call for dialogue with President Museveni saying, he can only meet the incumbent if they are discussing the end to life presidency project. Besigye who paralyzed Mbarara town for hours, told mammoth supporters who thronged his rally that what Ugandans should …

President Museveni has challenged Bamasaba Cultural leaders to abandon the practice of using a single knife on different imbalu candidates in order to check disease that are caused by blood transfusion. In the speech, read by the second deputy prime minister and minister for East African affairs Kirunda Kivejinja, the …

NBS: The past weeks have clearly been tough for police chief general Kale Kayihura, with calls for his sacking by a section of opposition politicians and members the public. Gen. Kale Kayihura and seven of his officers were summoned by the Makindye Magistrates’ court over torture charges relating to police …

NBS: The change in the health and social economic dynamics has forced cultural leaders in Bugisu to make some drastic adjustments in the conduct of their cultural practice of Imbalu (circumcision) for sustainability. Elders are now proposing the incorporation of health and social – economic development aspects in the cultural …