National

Seven family members burnt to death

TRAGEDY struck Pader district yesterday when seven family members were burnt to death by a bush fire in Ojile village in Pajule, Aruu county. More...

Mbarara woman who cut off defiler’s genitals acquitted

COURT in Mbarara on Monday dismissed a case of a woman who chopped off the penis of her neighbour. Angelina Kyomugisha, 37, accused Geoffrey Mugarura of allegedly defiling her 10-year-old daughter in June last year. More...

Business

Fuel, power shortage to cost economy sh788b

ABOUT 5% of Uganda’s gross domestic product (GDP) is to be lost this year due to fuel and power shortages, manufacturers have predicted. More...

United Bank of Africa goes to Mbale

United Bank of Africa’s managing director Emmanuel Okoro, the Mayor of Mbale, Hajat Nandala Jamillah and Bank of Uganda’s executive director for supervision, Justine Bagyenda, cut the tape during the opening of the bank’s Mbale branch last month. The branch is located on Manafwa Road More...

Sports

Massive changes in Cranes line-up

IN the aftermath of Cranes’ frustrating stalemate at the hands of Zanzibar, Bobby Williamson convened his charges for a thorough debriefing, but with no intentions of the hair-dryer treatment usually accustomed to the Old Trafford dressing room after indifferent results. Determination, not recrimination, was his theme. More...

Today's Column

Israel’s bombs might cause opposite, negative results!

The Israeli invasion of Gaza is a case of a school-yard bully going after the little guy, pummeling him bloody just because he can. He knows that the onlookers will mostly do nothing about it, if not actively cheer the violence. More...

Editorial

FGM can be defeated by joint effort

Some 500 girls were circumcised in Sebei region over the Christmas period! This is an alarming rise in Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) because the number of mutilated girls stood at 90 in the previous circumcision season. More...