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Panga wielding thugs have killed another resident of Nansana, Gganda village in Wakiso district, putting the death toll to eight, with dozens of others seriously injured.  Nansana Territorial Police confirms the murder, identifying the deceased as Wilson Seruwo, a 35-year-old man.  Local leaders are accusing the police of not doing enough to protect residents and their property. Photo by NBS.

Members of Parliament are seeking for an urgent audience with the Speaker of Parliament, Anita Among.  The agenda is the underlying issues that they say have remained unresolved due to the incompetence of Commissioners expected to handle matters before proceeding to the Speaker's office.  This was presented by Kalungu West MP Joseph Ssewungu, who says many legislators are frustrated due to delayed salaries and pressure from moneylenders, among other concerns. Photo 📸 Source NBS.

French President Emmanuel Macron has defeated his far-right rival Marine Le Pen by a comfortable margin in Sunday’s runoff election, early projections by pollsters showed, securing a second term. The first projections showed centrist Macron securing around 57-58 percent of the vote in Sunday’s runoff. Such estimates are normally accurate but may be fine-tuned as official results come in from around the country. Le Pen, the candidate of the far-right RN (National Assembly), received 41.8 percent of the votes, the highest in her last three unsuccessful presidential bids. Le Pen conceded defeat in a speech shortly after the polling projections were released, but still hailed her result as a “brilliant victory”. Promising to “carry on” her political career and saying that she would “never abandon” the French, the 53-year-old said: “The result represents a brilliant victory.” Macron would be the first French president in a generation to win a second term, since Jacques Chirac in 2002. But h

Dear lawyers, what happens if my grandfather left all his property to his children, but then my uncle passed away before my grandfather. Now that my grandfather is dead, the children of my uncle want his share of the property that he left behind for his children. Are they entitled to anything? This depends on how your grandfather distributed the property, if he said that the property belongs to his children, the share of the property of the ones who have passed away is supposed to be shared by those who survived. However, if he was specific about the exact share that his children were to benefit, then they cannot just take what would have belonged to someone else even if that person passed away. This property goes back to the estate of your grandfather and if he is still alive, he must decide what to do with it or it will be shared by everyone including the grandchildren (as dependants). #BareFootLaw #osutayusuf

There are no particulars of the shareholders of Uganda Vinci Coffee Company (UVCC), the firm at the center of the coffee deal saga, reports Saturday Monitor.   The report said there is no name or details other than those of Matovu, the company secretary and Enrica Pinetti, the director. The company, in February this year, entered a coffee processing agreement it entered into with the Government of Uganda (GoU). According to documents quoted by Monitor, UVCC—which registered on January 9, 2014—is owned by four individuals and one firm (Hawk Limited). All owners have registered addresses in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a flourishing tax haven. They include; Ahmed Ahmed Sultan Ismail and Hisham Ahmed Sultan Ismail both of whom have equal shares of 10, and are registered on address P.O.Box 118508, Dubai UAE. Others are; Abu Dhabi-based—Ibrahim Elias Salloum and Hadi Elias Salloum of P.O.Box. 46527—who also have an equal share holding of 10. Hawk Limited—with 960 shares to its name—is re

Populist PM Janez Jansa faces a tough challenge from the liberal candidate in the politically divided EU nation. About 1.7 million voters will choose from an array of parties running for seats in the 90-member legislature [Borut Zivulovic/Reuters]. Slovenians are casting ballots in the parliamentary elections that are expected to be a tight race between the right-wing populist party of Prime Minister Janez Jansa and opposition green-liberals in the politically divided European Union nation. Polls opened at 7am (05:00 GMT) on Sunday and polling will continue till 7pm (17:00 GMT). Exit polls are expected to be published soon afterwards. About 1.7 million voters are enrolled to elect their representatives from a host of candidates running for seats in the 90-member legislature. The ruling conservative Slovenian Democratic Party and newly formed Freedom Movement have led polls ahead of the vote. Surveys, however, have suggested that there could be no clear winner, leading to the formation

When Kityo passed away 8 years ago, his 4 wives were jointly put in charge of his property by the court. They agreed to give it 7 years before selling anything. Last year they agreed to sell some property to take the children back to school, but one of the wives was knocked and died on the spot. Her children say that they cannot allow the remaining ones to do unless a replacement is appointed by court.    CAN THE OTHER WIVES CONTINUE THE SALE? The law of succession in Uganda says that when one or more people who were appointed to manage the property of a deceased person also dies, and there are those who survived, then all the authority they got from court remains with those survivors. This means that the remaining wives of Kityo can continue with the sale and distribution of their late husband’s property even if one of the wives has also passed away. #BarefootLaw  #osutayusuf