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Covid-19 Crisis: Two MPs Petition Court Over Parliament’s Shs10 Billion Budget Allocation
Ntungamo Municipality MP Gerald Karuhanga and Erute North MP Jonathan Odur have petitioned the Civil Division of the High Court seeking to block Shs10bn allocated to MPs to help them fight the spread of COVID-19 in their respective constituencies. The legislators’ petition was received by High Court registrar Sarah Langa on Monday, April 20. The…
Good Heart! Kampala Parents School, NTV-Uganda Partner For Candidates’ Live TV Lessons
Kampala Parents School (KPS) through the Ruparelia Foundation in a good heart, will to keep students upto-date and bringing classroom at the comfort of every primary seven candidate has patterned with NTV-Uganda for a live classroom broadcast. Learning sessions for P.7 candidates started today, April 20 and will be live from 11am to 12pm from…
Besigye Arrested With A Forged Covid-19 Sticker
The Joint Security Task Force has arrested two people driving with forged movement stickers. These errant drivers have been identified as Besigye Denis driving motor vehicle registration number UBB 721K and Luswata Nasif cruising car number UBE 599S.Their vehicles are currently parked at Police Headquarters, Naguru. Besigye and Luswata after their arrest Police has preferred…
US Medical Workers Stand Up To Anti-lockdown Protesters
By Agencies At least two Colorado healthcare workers dressed in full scrubs with masks stood silently with their arms crossed on Sunday as they blocked a line of vehicles full of protesters honking their horns and screaming, “This is the land of the free.” “You go to work. Why can’t I go to work!” a…
Jubilation As Uganda Discharges 10 More Covid-19 Patients
Eight members of Watoto Church choir who had been sick from covid19 have recovered from the deadly Coronavirus. These were discharged today April 20, 2020 at a function officiated by Joyce Kaducu, the minister of state for Primary Health Care. The team, which included 5 children and 3 attendants, was being treated from Entebbe Grade…
Uganda Set To Discharge 10 More Coronavirus Patients Today
Uganda is set to release ten people today, Monday April 20 from Entebbe Grade B hospital after recovering fully from coronavirus, Their discharge today will bring the total number of recoveries to 38, against 17 active cases. The new recoveries include five Watoto choir members, according to reports. Uganda on Sunday April 19 discharged six…
Covid-19: Emergency Relief Fund For Lawyers Rescues Ailing Advocate Moses Kuguminkiriza With 1.56M,Launches Sleek Application Form
The chairperson Advocate Assumpta Kemigisha Ssebunya and Treasurer Adv Sylvia Namawejje Ebitu have released the COVID-19 Emergency Relief Fund for Lawyers and exceptionally contributed Shs 1.56 million in partial fulfillment of a request for Shs 2.8 million submitted on behalf of Advocate Moses Kuguminkiriza who is currently hospitalised at Mengo Hospital. This milestone is largely…
High Court Orders Military To Produce Political Activist Kakwenza Dead Or Alive
High Court has ordered Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence (CMI), Uganda People’s Defence Force (UPDF), Police and Attorney General to produce City Lawyer and activist Kakwenza Rukira in court on April 27, 2020, at 11 am without fail. Kakwenza was reportedly arrested from his home in Iganga on Tuesday, April 14, by security agents, citing cyber…
Wife Stabs Makindye Royal College Head Teacher To Death Over Unborn Baby
Katwe Police are investigating a case of suspected murder by stabbing in a domestic brawl. Kampala metropolitan police spokesperson Patrick Onyango revealed that on 18.4.2020 at Makindye Police Station,in Kirundu Zone, Luwafu Parish, Makindye Division, Police officers at the Counter heard a woman calling for help. “The law enforcement officers immediately rushed to the scene…
M7 Applauds UPDF,NEC Engineers For Speedy Work On Clearing Nalubaale Dam Floating Island
President Yoweri Museveni inspected the Nalubaale and Bujagali power plants in the Eastern district of Jinja that were last week choked by the floating islands of water hyacinth and papyrus at the Nile bridge that blocked the turbines resulting to a national power blackout. He applauded the great work of engineers from National enterprise corporation…