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Trouble Looms: Prison Confirms First Coronavirus case
The Uganda Prisons Services has recorded its first coronavirus case in Kayiti prison, Namutumba district. Addressing a daily security briefing at Uganda Media Centre in Kampala, Frank Baine, the spokesperson of Prisons said that the case is a suspect who had previously had contact with a person who tested positive of the virus. Baine said…
Burundi Court Orders Swearing In Of President Elect Ndayishimiye
Burundi’s constitutional court on Friday ruled that the country’s newly elected leader Evariste Ndayishimiye be sworn in as soon as possible following the sudden death of President Pierre Nkurunziza earlier this week. “No interim necessary, the president-elect …. must be sworn in as soon as possible,” presidential advisor Willy Nyamitwe wrote on Twitter of the…
Counsel Galisonga’s Analysis On Dr. Sudhir’s Sacked Sanyu FM Presenters
As a child, whenever my dad used to give me less pocket money or cancelled some items off shopping list, I viewed him as unreasonable. Sometimes he’d pull out a huge bundle of cash and just pull out a little, much less than I wanted and gave me. To me then, he was a stingy…
Covid-19: Panic As UPDF Soldier Tests Positive At Nakasongola Barracks
A Uganda People’s Defense Forces ‘UPDF’ soldier has tested positive for COVID-19. It is reported the soldier attached at Nakasongola army barracks had returned to the Barracks from pass leave and subjected to a COVID test, at Bombo military barracks. Lieutenant Ibrahim Ssekito, the Nakasongola army barracks spokesperson revealed that the soldier had gone for…
Disgruntled Sacked Sanyu Employees Resort To Malice, Hack Station’s Twitter Account
Former Sanyu FM Employees who were recently fired by the station’s management after they protested a 25% salary cut, have confiscated the official Twitter handle for Sanyu FM and are using it to pass their grievances claiming they were unfairly dismissed by the management when they staged a seat down strike since last week. The…
Museveni: Some Parasitic MoH Officials Are Dispatching Fake Covid-19 Positive Tests
The President of Uganda Yoweri Museveni has blasted the Ministry Of Health after revealing that among the 679 cases of Covid19 in Uganda, there are some who were given fake positive results “due to carelessness” of some technicians The president announced the shocking news during a Thursday June, 11, 2020 national budget reading. He however,…
Makerere Dismissal Saga: Court Awards Stella Nyanzi Shs120M
High Court Justice Lydia Mugambe has issued an order of mandamus against Makerere university obliging the management of the institution to implement the decision of the university tribunal in relation to the former researcher Dr Stella Nyanzi . Dr Stella Nyanzi sued Makerere University seeking compensation . She also prayed to court to order Makerere…
Min. Ruth Acheng Calls For Extension Of Lockdown
The Minister for health, Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng has warned that with the impending complacency manifested by the Ugandan plight in urban centres, another resurgence of the virus is predictable. Acheng made a revelation during a ‘Free face masks’ flag off event, where she accused Ugandans of flouting the standard operating procedures of social distancing…
Suspected ‘URA Official’ Arrested Over Shs 80M Fraud
Police at Old Kampala have arrested one suspect for impersonating as a Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) official and defrauding over UGX 80 million. Kampala Metropolitan Police Spokesperson SP Patrick Onyango said the arrest follows a case that was reported at Old Kampala police station on September 12, 2019 by one Kyanda Godfrey aged 42, a…