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Got Your A-level Results? Here Is How You Can Join Victoria University To Achieve Your Dream Career
Following the release of Uganda’s advanced certificate of education (UACE), several students are struggling to find their way into higher institutions of learning but worry no more because Uganda’s leading education hub, Victoria University has got you covered with all the Online Distance E-Learning (ODeL) and physical learning you need. Even during the pandemic, Victoria…
EAC Job Mess: Kadaga Protests Secretariat’s Recruitment Procedure
Rebecca Kadaga, Uganda’s First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for East African Affairs has protested the way the recruitment of staff has been going on at the East African Community Secretariat. Following the 42nd Extraordinary Meeting of the East African Community (EAC) Council of Ministers held in May 2021 where several vacant positions in the…
Murder: Court Slashes Businessman Ssebuwufu’s Jail Term To 20 Years
A panel of three Court of Appeal Justices has reduced the 40-year jail term handed to city businessman Muhammad Ssebuwufu, and accordingly substituted it with an 18 year sentence for having murdered businesswoman Betty Donah Katusabe. In the same way, the panel comprising of Justice Fredrick Egonda-Ntende, Catherine Bamugemereire and Christopher Izama Madrama, has quashed…
Terrorism: The Person Who Died In Swift Bus Was A Terrorist – M7
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has revealed that the person who died in the Ishaka – bound bus yesterday, was a terrorist (mutujju) by the names of Muzafala, but also calling himself Isaac Matovu. He was part of the Pader group that had been sent by ADF to blow up the mourners during the funeral of…
War On Terror: Ugandan Opposition Will Never Undermine Security Capacity To Maintain Nation’s Peace & Stability
The nation has been undergoing a state of anger and confusion for the past three days over the recent bomb explosions that have claimed the lives of at least 2 Ugandans. One bomb went off on Saturday 23rd in Komamboga and another on Monday 25th on a bus. One of the bombs that went off…
Ugandan Gov’t Already Minting Billions From Marijuana After ‘Secretly’ Permitting Some Companies To Carry Business
According to our sources, Uganda last week exported about 400 kilograms of medical marijuana to Germany which is actually reported to be the fourth delivery since the government `secretly’ permitted a few companies to carry the business in the among hundreds that yearn for this lucrative opportunity. Medical marijuana uses the marijuana plant or chemicals…
Uganda Baati Launches E-commerce Platform To Ease Consumer Purchase
Uganda Baati Limited (UBL) today launched the first of its kind, e-commerce platform in the steel manufacturing sector (shop.ugandabaati.co.ug) that will enable customers shop, place an order and pay for their preferred roof sheets from anywhere and at any time. In a bid to improve the customer buying and procurement experience, Uganda Baati has developed…
All Makerere University Students To Attend Physical Lectures
Makerere University has backtracked on a directive that only science students should report for physical classes next month. Last week, Vice-Chancellor Professor Barnabas Nawangwe said that in a bid to limit student numbers as a preventive measure against the spread of Covid-19, students studying humanities and non-practical science courses were to study online. According to…
Only 18 Percent Prison Inmates Vaccinated Against Covid-19
The Uganda Prisons Services has said that it has so far vaccinated only 18 percent of its 66,832 inmates across the country. Frank Baine, the Uganda Prisons Spokesperson said that only 2% of the already vaccinated prisoners have received the second dose. Baine explained that their target is to vaccinate at least 50 percent of…