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PLATINUM CREDIT EXPOSED! Court Fines It Sh11.6M,Bosses Face 10-Year Jail Term as Borrowers Decry Its ‘Dirty Deals’

Shockwaves are tearing through East Africa’s money lending industry after microfinance giant Platinum Credit was ordered to pay a Kenyan mobile subscriber Sh400,000 (approximately UGX 11.6 million), for bombarding him with...

Hon Crispin Kaheru: Expectations in this kisanja “no more sleep for all Ugandans”

By Hon Crispin Kaheru - Member, Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC). What awaits H.E. President Yoweri Museveni in...

UGANDA: Dog Shelters Being Used To Scam Donors

ILLICIT FINANCIAL FLOWS: How dog shelter content creators in Uganda are tricking people online. Many donors being scammed. 🎥...

EU Keeps Escalating Against Russia as NATO Crumbles – How Africa Will Pay the Price

Aaron Ainomugisha.  Imagine you are a farmer in Senegal or a truck driver in Kenya. You have never...

Inside White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting

Credit Al Jazeera. Donald Trump has been rushed out of the White House correspondents’ dinner at a hotel...

CORRUPTION! MBARARA LC5 CHAIRPERSON DIDAS TABARO, OUTGOING CAO EDWARD KASAGARA LOCK HORNS

The Mbarara district L C 5 chairperson Didas Tabaro Tumwesigye has locked horns with the outgoing Chief Administrative Officer-CAO Edward Kasagara over different accountability...

WHEN CORRUPTION INFILTRATES KEY INSTITUTIONS LIKE UPDF, THE COUNTRY GRIEVES!

When corruption infiltrates key institutions like the Uganda People’s Defence Forces-UPDF, the country loses troops as many grieving families live to remember the scandals...

MINISTER BEATRICE AKELLO SHOCKED BY CORRUPTION & ACCOUNTABILITY GAPS IN WESTERN UGANDA

BY AARON AINOMUGISHA. The State Minister for Economic Monitoring in the office of the President, Beatrice Akello Akori and the State House Anti-corruption unit...

PARISH DEVELOPENT MODEL: HOW CORRUPTION IS CHOKING UGANDA’S POVERTY ALLEVIATION PROGRAMMES

Stakeholders continue to decry corruption as the biggest stumbling block hindering Uganda’s fight against poverty through different socioeconomic transformation, choking different poverty alleviation programmes...

RED FLAGS: UGX37 BILLION ALLOCATED TO THE PRESIDENTIAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON EXPORTS & INDUSTRIAL DEV’T UNDER MUSEVENI’S SON-IN-LAW ODREK RWABWOGO

The Government of Uganda has been castigated for allocating UGX37 billion to the Presidential Advisory Committee on Exports and Industrial Development, an agency led...

WASTEFUL EXPENDITURE: UGX1 MILLION PROVIDED FOR BUYING PRESIDENT MUSEVENI’S CLOTHES DAILY

Five legislators in the 11th Parliament including Hon Ssemujju Nganda of Kira municipality, have identified about UGX454 billion which they think would be wasteful...