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Police officers at Entebbe airport in Uganda arrested a man suspected to have swallowed at least 27 male condoms stuffed with liquid narcotic drugs, Ugandanpicks reports. The Guinean national, Alpha Camara, was intercepted at around 8:45am (+3GMT) upon his arrival at the airport. “We subjected him to a vomiting routine check, and he brought out one condom,” Mr Tinka Zarugaba, ...

The Super Eagles of Nigeria has edged up three places in the latest FIFA rankings released Thursday by the World football governing body. Uganda has also moved up one place to 91st in the latest Coca-Cola FIFA World Rankings despite a lack of International games for the Cranes. Tanzania and Kenya remain rooted in 116th and 122th respectively while Rwanda ...

The Ugandan Police was last week tasked to search for a 26- year- old fresh graduate who was kidnapped after a chat on Facebook. Joan Alupo, met a ‘friend’ on Facebook and they held a conversation which led them to organizing a date.The ‘friend’ picked Alupo, the daughter of former Tororo District chairperson Radice Okama from their home in Muyenga ...

Gov. Aliyu Wamakko of Sokoto State on Saturday said the state government would sponsor 300 indigenes of the state for graduate and post graduate studies at the international Islamic University, Mbale, Uganda. Wamakko said this in Sokoto while bidding farewell to the first batch of 150 students for Master’s programme in educational development . “The first batch of the post ...

At just 31 years old, and already heading a vast business empire he built from scratch, Ashish Thakkar has been referred to by some as Africa’s youngest billionaire. But this is a label the Ugandan entrepreneur doesn’t want to associate himself with. Scroll down for video… “Money should never be a measurement for anything,” says Thakkar, founder of the pan-African ...