Irate residents of Natteta Village in Nazigo Sub-county, Kayunga District yesterday beheaded a resident they suspected to have stolen a chicken. The District Police Commander, Mr Julius Ahimbisibwe, identified the deceased as Richard Buyinza, a...

A medical doctor in Wakiso District, who attempted to tap into the mystical powers of a witchdoctor to resolve a personal problem has suffered a loss of Shs7 million which the witchdoctor allegedly conned of him. Dr Amos Mbulanine, who works at...

Fourteen people, including a journalist, were yesterday committed to the High Court for trial on treason charges. The decision to commit Mr Patrick Otim, 34, a freelance journalist with a local newspaper and his co-accused persons followed a report...

A strong hailstorm left 10 families homeless in Mbalala, Kasenge and Nakapinyi villages in Nama sub-county, Mukono district on Sunday evening. Plantations, buildings and household items were also destroyed. The Kasenge Primary School main hall had its...

Courts have trouble convicting corrupt bureaucrats because colleagues help destroy incriminating evidence in a “scratch my back, I will scratch yours” syndicate, a minister has said. Ethics Minister James Buturo’s remarks, likely to infuriate...

ccording to the Police, the girl (names withheld because she is a minor) reportedly hit the 40-year-old herdsman, Yosefat Mpigika, last Thursday. District Police Commander Jimmy Oyuku yesterday told Daily Monitor that the girl was arrested on...

The government of Uganda is going to distribute hundreds of the ecological sanitation (eco-san) toilets to farmers and people living in slums. The Minister of State for Water, Jennifer Namuyangu says the move will improve on sanitation and promote...

The Minister of Uganda for Ethics and Integrity, Dr. James Nsaba Buturo has warned women in Uganda against indecent dressing. The Minister says indecent dressing is responsible for rape, defilement and murder after rape in Uganda and other parts of the...

JACKSON Asiku is the new International Boxing Organisation featherweight champion. Asiku knocked out Mexico’s Heriberto Ruiz in the eighth round in Sydney, Australia to become the fifth Ugandan to win a world boxing title. The Australia-based Ugandan...

Evelyn Lirri’s report; “Corruption floods water, sanitation sector” (Saturday Monitor, October 31), seemed to be the least likely candidate for most important article in an issue of the paper that led with Kabaka Mutebi’s protests at President...