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MPs Hail Rotary International Boss Mehta For Humanitarian Work In Uganda

Parliament has commended Rotary International for the humanitarian support it offers in Uganda. The motion moved by the Government Chief Whip, Hon Thomas Tayebwa noted the international body’s contribution in the health, education, water and environment sectors. “In the past five years,

September 15, 2021

Business·promotions·Sports

Crown Beverages LTD Injects 500M In FUFA Partnership Deal

Crown Beverages Limited (CBL), the bottlers of Nivana Packaged Drinking Water, Pepsi Cola, Mirinda, Mountain Dew, Evervess as well as Sting Energy Drink and The Federation of Uganda Football Association (FUFA) have today officially signed a memorandum of understanding in which Nivana

September 14, 2021

Sports

Big Hearted: Ruparelia Group, Victoria University Donate Ambulance to FMU

The Federation of Motorsport Clubs of Uganda (FMU) has received a Medical Ambulance from Ruparelia Foundation and Victoria University to help them facilitate their activities. The Federation received the state of the art ambulance as a donation from Victoria University under Ruparelia

September 14, 2021

Crime

Disgrace: Kapchorwa Magistrate Arrested With A Pistol In Moroto Bar Fight

Scuffle ensued Moroto town as police tried to arrest Chief magistrate of Kapchorwa court, Godfrey Teko on the allegations that he pulled a firearm and threatened to shoot dead one Mathew Lorika on Sunday evening. Mr Teko,a son to State minister for

September 13, 2021

Education

Schools Will Reopen Soon After Securing Learners From Covid-19- Janet Museveni

In the past weeks and even months, I have seen many of you, my friends and children, asking me why we don!t reopen schools. Therefore, today, I thought that perhaps it is time we discussed this subject instead of keeping silent about

September 13, 2021

Crime

Police Warn Ugandans Against Touching,Circulating Dropped Criminal Leaflets

Police has released a statement warning the public against a number of the widely spread threatening leaflets are alert and only intended to cause fear and panic. Following the murders in Masaka in which 26 people were killed in one month, cases of

September 13, 2021

Education

‘It’s Overdue’- Museveni Demands School Reopening Date By Next Week

President Yoweri Museveni has directed the prime minister to lead the team from the ministry of education, health and the national taskforce to come up with dates and revised safe proposals for the reopening of learning institutions. The directive follows a meeting

September 11, 2021

Hot Take

Scaring! Over 127 School Children Under Kyaggwe Bursary Scheme Impregnated In Lockdown

Kyaggwe county leaders are concerned about the increasing number of pregnancies and deliveries involving school-age going children due to the prolonged school closure. At least 127 out of the 1,000 girls under the Kyaggwe county (Ssaza) bursary scheme have conceived in the

September 9, 2021

Politics

OPINION: Museveni, Besigye, Mbabazi, Muntu And The Hybrid Politics That Bobi Wine,NUP Don’t Understand

By Andrew Baba Buluba The elections of 2021 may be too far behind us but many of its components will most likely continue influencing the country’s future political terrain for years to come. Four-time Museveni challenger Rtd. Col. Dr Kizza Warren Kifefe

September 8, 2021

Health

Uganda & Africa’s Way Out Of Covid-19 Gridlock Is In The Neighborhood

By Tusiime Apollo On global scale, there have been frantic attempts to avert the dangers of COVID-19 ever since the global pandemic broke out in Wuhan, China at the end of the year 2019. Being a highly infectious disease that can cause

July 20, 2021