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The first aircraft for the the revived Uganda Airlines is expected to arrive in the country in a month’s time. The minister for Works and Transport, Monica Azuba Ntege says that the pilots of the Bombardier CRJ900 jet were sent to Canada for training. Azuba said they are supposed to meet with manufacturers to iron […]

Through his lawyers, Kampala Associated Advocates (KAA), MTN Uganda chairman Charles Mbire has refuted reports that on Friday he was interrogated by the Police on issues related to his company’s reported involvement in activities of espionage on Uganda. The lawyers have said that the claims of Mbiire’s questioning which were yesterday published in Saturday Vision […]

Juggling group chats can be an annoying endeavor, especially when people frivolously add you to mundane groups. Fortunately, WhatsApp seems to be working on a solution to this problem. WhatsApp news website WABetaInfo has uncovered hints of a group invitation system in the iOS version of the app. But the website adds that the feature […]

The Ugandan government has deported the Chief Executive Officer(CEO) for telecommunication giants MTN Uganda, Wim Vanhelleputte, the Nile Post has learnt. According to documents from the Ugandan Citizenship and Immigration department, Wim is no longer wanted in Uganda . “Wim Vanhelleputte has been declared an undesirable immigrant by virtue of section 52(g) of the Uganda […]

Ugandan businessman Sulaiman Kabangala Mbuga has been released from Al Awiir Central Prison in Dubai, UAE, where he has been incarcerated for more than a year. However, he is not a free man as he has been immediately extradited by Interpol to Denmark, where he is reportedly supposed to face afresh charges of defrauding a […]

Idi Amin Dada was a household name in the 1970s. Amin was the third president of Uganda from 1971 to 1979, he became well known for his violation of human rights, for causing the collapse of the country’s economy, and for causing social disorganization. He was feared then and now, even when he is long […]

President Yoweri Musveni has said that the organisers of the recently launched Miss Curvy Uganda could have been compelled by the appreciation and popularity awarded to the Miss Uganda/Miss World pageants that birthed and popularised Quiin Abenakyo.  Museveni was speaking at a press briefing following the 6th round of the annual Presidential Investor’s Roundtable meeting […]

Joe Kigozi, the Chief of Strategy at Next Media has told Nile Post that they are working with security agencies to try to understand why they are looking for one of its employees, Solomon Sserwanjja.  The whereabout of Solomon Sserwanjja, a senior NBS TV anchor and investigative journalist remain unknown but his wife Vivian Nakaliika […]

Singer Catherine Kusasira has up to now refused to make a statement at police in regards the incident in which her vehicle was shot at by Rtd. Maj.Gen.Kasirye Gwanga.  The maverick Gwanga last week shot car tyres for Kusasira’s car after being incensed with its occupants who were allegedly playing loud music and refused to […]

A second year student at Makerere University has petitioned Makerere University’s Academic Registrar and the respective committees at Makerere University Senate as well as the National Council for Higher Education (NCHE) and the police, seeking to revoke a degree allegedly awarded in fault to Miss Uganda cum Miss World Africa, Quin Abenakyo.  David Musiri, a […]