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M7 ‘Expected’ To Ease Lockdown As Gen. Tumwine Meets Starving K’la Residents

President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni is expected ease in a phased manner the lockdown which started on April 1 aimed at containing the spread of the coronavirus pandemic in Uganda. This follows a report presented by a Cabinet committe and the security Minister

May 3, 2020

Crime·News

Grief As UPDF Major Is Shot Dead In Nakasongola Barracks

A UPDF soldier at the rank of Major has Sunday been killed by a colleague who also injured a junior officer who tried to arrest him at Nakasongola Army Barracks The shooter is still at large. “There has been a shooting incident

May 3, 2020

Business·News

BoU Confirms: Former Treasury Boss ‘Kasedde’ Was Arrested Over Theft

The Central Bank has confirmed that Dr. Charles Kasedde a former head of treasury at Bank of Uganda Mbale was fired due to theft. The confirmation comes a day after our Story reporting of how Kasedde was arrested and is being probed

May 3, 2020

Crime·Health·News

Magufuli Says Donated Covid-19 Testing Kits Fake, Claims Paw paw, Quail And Goat Samples Tested Positive

Tanzanian President John Pombe Magufuli is now casting aspersions on the COVID-19 testing kits donated to Africa by donors. In a viral video, President Magufuli claimed samples taken from a paw paw, qail and goat and sneaked in the country’s laboratory tasked with carrying out coronavirus test

May 3, 2020

Health·News

In Uganda: Gov’t Tests Over 180 Street Children For Covid-19

Samples from at least 180 street children encamped at Nakivubo Blue Primary School during the lockdown following the outbreak of coronavirus in the country have been taken for testing. Officials at Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) on Friday said this will enable

May 3, 2020

Business·News

Lake Victoria’s Surging Water Levels Threaten Uganda’s Hydro Dams

Lake Victoria’s water levels have surged to their highest level in more than half a century after about eight months of relentless downpours, posing a threat to Uganda’s hydropower plants, the country said on Friday. The east African country relies almost entirely

May 3, 2020

News

UNRA Temporarily Closes One Lane Of Ntungamo-Kabale Highway

Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA) has closed one lane of Ntungamo-Kabale highway due to a pavement failure at Kaharo along Ntungamo—Kabale road, 18Km to Kabale town. This was communicated in a 2, May, 2020 which reads thus… Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA) would

May 2, 2020

Crime·News

Ex-BoU Executive Arrested Over Fraud Allegations

The Directorate of Criminal Investigation and Crime Intelligence (CID) has launched an extensive investigation into the disposal of old bank notes at the Bank of Uganda (BoU). Although it’s a practice to discard old bank notes at Bank of Uganda, the CID

May 2, 2020

Crime·Hot Take·News·Trending

To Hell With Presidential Directives – Energy Minister Defies

By Our Reporter Following our breaking story to the Energy Mafia series, that was taken on by various media houses thereafter, our news team has obtained information from the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development that speaks of total distress among the

May 2, 2020

Health·News

Covid-19: Top NRM Mobilizer Donates Millions Of Condoms To Control STDs During Lockdown

The National Resistance Movement (NRM) mobilizer Rufumuza Rukanda has become the first primate Ugandan to embrace the use of modern contraceptives after donating millions of condoms to the national task force. When speaking after donations, heartly Rukanda revealed that he donated these

May 2, 2020