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Cabinet In Hot Soup As Corruption In Marijuana Licencing Draws Attention To Ugandans
About 90 companies, including foreign ones, have applied to the Government of Uganda for licences to allow them grow marijuana on a commercial scale. According to Sources, a number of high-profile meetings have been going on recently, involving multiple government agencies led by the health ministry, to discuss the licences however, many of the meetings…
Men Must Have Sex At Least 21 Times A Month, To Avoid Prostate Cancer – Report
Men have been advised to ejaculate for not less than 21 times in every month and five times each week if they want to avoid prostate cancer. A twitter video circulating online shows the female herbal practitioner, Dr. Ebenezar of Amuzu Hospital emphasizing the need for men to have sex frequently to safeguard themselves against…
Coronavirus Effect: Liverpool Could Miss Out The Premier League Tittle If Matches Are Cancelled
Despite being 22 points, clear, Liverpool could yet miss out on the Premier League title if Coronavirus cuts short the season. Jurgen Klopp’s side have ‘no guarantee’ that they would still be crowned champions should the season end prematurely due to the scale of the virus outbreak, according to the Telegraph. The report goes further to…
Coronavirus Update: Kenya Airways Suspends Staff Over Deadly Disease
Kenya Airways (KQ) has suspended an employee, identified as Gire Ali, who filmed and shared a video clip showing a Southern China Airlines plane with 239 passengers on board landing at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA). The carrier accuses Mr Ali of poor handling and management of passengers arriving from virus-hit China. Speaking to…
Russia Deploys Warships To Syria Coast After Turkey Loses 33 Soldiers In Attack
Russia on Friday announced it had dispatched two state-of-the-art warships to the Middle East after an attack in Syria killed 33 Turkish soldiers. Videos posted on social media showed two of Russia’s newest guided missile frigates, the Admiral Grigorovich and the Admiral Makarov, making their way through the Bosporus, a Turkish-controlled chokepoint that runs…
Kadaga Grills Dr.Mugisha Over Rampant Corruption In NWSC
The Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga has appealed to the water professionals and utility bodies to improve water sanitation in urban and rural areas. The Speaker made this call while officiating at the closure of the 20th Africa Water Association (AFWA) International Congress and Exhibition on Thursday, 27 February 2020 at the Kampala Serena Conference…
UPDF Hands Over Deadly Weapons Recovered From Alshabaab To Somalia Govt
The Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission (SRCC) for Somalia, Ambassador Francisco Madeira has handed over recovered weapons to the Somali National Security Adviser Abdisaid Muse Ali in a function at the sector one headquarters in Mogadishu, Somalia. The weapons were recovered from Alshabab terrorists over time by the Ugandan troops…
8 Perish, Scores Injured In Luwero-Gulu Highway Accident
At least eight people were killed on spot and scores seriously injured in a Friday head-on collision in the central district of Luwero, according to the police. Abraham Tukundane, Luwero district police commander, revealed that the fatal accident occurred after a truck collided with a passenger commuter taxi at Kibisi, along the Luwero-Kampala Highway. Tukundane…
Panic As Ugandan Student Commits Suicide In China Over Coronavirus
The mother of a 22-year-old Ugandan student who died in China on Thursday has said she had been communicating with him daily and would have told her if he was troubled. Shafiq Mbogo, a fourth year private student pursuing bachelor’s degree in International Business and Trade at Shenyang University in Shenyang City, the capital of…
Breaking! Min. Rwamirama Collapses From Karamoja, Airlifted To Nakasero Hospital In Critical Condition
The State Minister for animal husbandry Hon Bright Kanyontore Rwamirama has been airlifted to Nakasero Hospital in critical condition. A family member told this reporter on condition of anonymity that Mr. Rwamirama who was in Karamoja where he had gone to supervise the locust exercise collapsed in the late hours of Friday February 28, 2019.…