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MP Karuhanga Cites His Mother’s Death To M7’s Shambolic Health System
Ntungamo Municipality Member of Parliament Hon.Gerald Karuhanga while eulogising his fallen mother Mrs Jova Kafureeka (55) told the mourners that his mother and other Ugandans will continue to die young because President Museveni has one of the worst health care systems in the world. mourners attending a requiem mass The opposition leaning legislator painfully voiced…
Grief As UPDF Officer Shoots Three Dead, Scores Injured
It was a shock and grief on Monday February 10, 2020 evening when a UPDF soldier attached to Gulu Military Baracks took a gun and Shot dead three people in Gulu town. The incident that claimed lives of Beatrice Ajok, 52, her two sons; Owen Norman, who has been a Senior Six student of St.…
UPDF Soldier Shoots Dead Three Family Members In Gulu Land Raw
A UPDF soldier is on the run after shooting three people dead in Gulu town. The Monday incident occurred in Vanguard Sub-ward, Pece Division, Gulu Municipality. Those killed in cold blood are Beatrice Ajok, 52, her two sons; Owen Norman, who has been a Senior Six student of St. Pope John Paul II SS, and…
Don’t Trust Your Memories If You’re High On Weed, Study Says
A new study published Monday, February 10, 2020 found people who took just one hit of weed doubled their number of “false memories” in a virtual reality scenario compared to those who puffed on a placebo said study author Johannes Ramaekers. A false memory is a recollection of something that didn’t occur or a memory that…
Uganda Sprays Locust Swarms To Protect Coffee Crop, Livestock
Uganda has started to spray swarms of desert locusts that invaded over the weekend, posing a major threat to livestock and key crops such as coffee, a government officials has confirmed. The plague of locusts has already caused extensive damage to pastures and crops and threatened food security in several countries in the east and…
Butambala Grand Father Arrested For Defiling 4 Year Old Girl Grand Daughter
The police in Butambala has in custody, a 70 year old male adult, Kiwanuka Haruna for the aggravated defilement of his 4 year old, grandchild. The incident occurred on the 3/02/2020 at 6:30pm, at Bulaawa village, Kalamba Subcounty, Butambala District, where the grandfather to the victim, called her behind the latrines and asked her to…
CID Raids Deadly Kampala Criminal Gangs, 4 Cameroonians Nabbed With Fake Dollars
The Directorate of Criminal Intelligence conducted 4 separate raids on criminal gangs dealing in counterfeit currencies at Cham Towers, Crystal Valley Hotel, Mengo and selected outskirts of Kampala. The task team seized fake Ugandan Shillings, black dollars bills totaling $10.500, USD 200, 16 bundles of black US Paper Dollars and chemicals among several exhibits. Four…
Critically Ill Maj.Gen Biraaro Admitted At Kampala Hospital In Intensive Care Unit
Former UPDF top ranking officer and 2016 presidential candidate Maj. Gen Benon Biraaro was over the weekend rushed to Kampala Hospital, Kololo in a critical condition. A family member has confirmed. According to close friends, the former UPDF bush war Gen is currently admitted in a special isolation room and the family has restricted some…
UPDF Deploys 2500 Soldiers,20000 Litres Of Pesticides To Fight Locusts In Karamoja
Government has dispatched more that 20000 litres of pesticides to Amudat district in Karamoja sub-region to aid the aerial spraying of locusts that entered Uganda through the northwest Pokot area on Sunday. The chemicals were loaded and airlifted this morning from Kololo airstrip by ministry of Agriculture and Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) personnel to…
Africa Is still A Hot Bed Of Terrorism,Conflict-AU Chairman Ramaphosa
The newly elected Chairperson of the African Union, Cyril Ramaphosa also President of South Africa has noted with concern that Africa still remains a hotbed of terrorism and conflict saying it is a cancer that needs to be eradicated. In his address to the African Union Heads of State and Government during the 33rd Ordinary…