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But How? Truck Driver Tests Positive For Covid-19 In Uganda, Negative In Kenya
The Kenya Medical Research Institute (Kemri) has overturned Covid-19 test results on a Kenyan long-distance truck driver who was tested positive in Uganda while on transit a fortnight ago. According to Taita-Taveta health officials, the victim was tested at the Malaba border along the Kenya-Uganda border on May 3 while on his way to Tororo. On his…
Kyarenga Concerts: Promoters Abitex, Bajjo Win Case Against IGP Ochola Over Blocked Bobi Wine Shows
Days after holding a successful online concert, musician and presidential hopeful Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, better known as Bobi Wine has something new to smile about. The High Court in Kampala on Wednesday quashed Police orders that stopped the pop star from staging concerts dubbed Kyarenga Extra. Justice Esta Nambayo declared the police orders as illegal,…
Govt To Compensate Former KCC Staff Shs 4Bn
Former employees of Kampala City Council (KCC), which was transformed into Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA), who were retrenched almost 10 years ago, will receive their terminal benefits in July this year. The State Minister for Finance (Planning), Hon. David Bahati, told Parliament that Shs4.08 billion was provided in the budget for the 2020/2021 financial…
Broke BoU To Borrow USD500M For Recapitalization
The President of Uganda Gen. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has endorsed a request by the Ministry of Finance to borrow up to USD500M to recapitalize Bank of Uganda (BoU) and Uganda Development Bank (UDB), following the effects of Coronavirus (COVID-19) on Uganda’s economy. The money, according to credible sources, will come from the International Monetary Fund…
Opinion: The Rise, Crush & Fall Of Hon Kadaga
By Mbabazi Hanning Gonzaga In the land of bonanzas, the Pearl of Africa where wonders never cease, a poor powerless woman crosses the red line by attempting to confront the Sabalwanyi of Uganda, Gen Yoweri Museveni. The poor woman who knows no boundaries until she is embarrassed is non other than Hon Rabecca Kadaga. When…
Just In! Uganda’s Covid-19 Cases Rise To 139 As 13 More Truck Drivers Test Positive
Ministry Of Health has on May, 13, 2020 confirmed 13 new Covid-19 positive case in Uganda out of 1,741 samples from truck drivers. According to the ministry of health, new cases are Seven Ugandan truck drivers, Five Kenyans and One Eritrean who arrived from Tanzania, South Sudan and Kenya via Mutukula, Elegu and Malaba This…
Omoro Man Who Flogged Grandmother Jailed 7 Years
Brian Okello , the man who was caught on camera battering his grandmother in Ongako Sub County, Omoro district has been sentenced to seven (7) years in prison. The accused person was captured on video canning his grandmother, Lucy Anek 83, the video which caused social media uproar leading to Okello’s arrest and subsequent trial.…
Covid-19: Police Officers ‘Go Bonkers’ As Govt Pays 3 Billion Lockdown Money
The ministry of finance has released Shs 3 billions to cater for the allowances of more 2000 police officers across the Country who have been participating in the implementation of President Museveni directives on the fight against Covid-19 pandemic. The message which was published by police administration instructs all DPCs to distribute all the money …
You’re Crossing The Limits – Museveni Warns Kadaga
President Yoweri Museveni is uncomfortable with the way MPs decided to apportion to themselves part of the supplementary budget meant for the covid19 fight. Museveni in an April 28 letter to the Speaker of Parliament expressed that MPs were trying to challenge his power. “I am writing to you in the matter of the Shs20…
Covid-19: Mps Make U-Turn, Applaud M7’s Leadership In Coronavirus Fight
Members of Parliament have made a U-turn and applauded President Yoweri Museveni for exemplary leadership just days after the same house passed a displeasure motion condemning his attack on parliament. Last week, the MPs passed a motion condemning the president for castigating parliament’s decision to allocate its self Shs 10 billion in a supplementary budget…