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Blessed Hands! Mogul Hamis Kiggundu Fulfills Promise Of UGX.530M To Purchase Covid-19 Vaccines (Pictures)

As promised, Youthful city businessman Ham real name Hamis Kiggundu has on Friday, July 2, 2021, delivered his donation of Shs530m for the purchase of 15000 doses of covid-19 vaccines. The donations were received by the Prime Minister of Uganda Rt. Hon. Robinah Nabbanja at the Office of the Prime Minister in Kampala. https://twitter.com/RobinahNabbanja/status/1410927451492990977?s=20 Last…

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Health Minister Acheng In Hot Soup As Parliament Summons Her Over Fake Covid-19 Vaccines

The Health Minister Dr Jane Ruth Acheng has landed into trouble after the Parliamentary Committee on COVID-19 summoned her to explain circumstances under which 800 people were vaccinated with fake vaccines in Kampala. We’ve learnt that the Minister and her team are expected to meet the legislators on Friday. Abdu Katuntu, who is the leader…

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Ugandans Tired Over Govt Silence As Rwanda Legalises Cultivation, Sale, and Use of Medical Cannabis

As Uganda’s position on licensing individuals and companies for production of Cannabis is, however, still unclear, the government of Rwanda has approved cultivation, processing and exportation of  marijuana for medicinal purposes. Rwanda becomes the latest African country to legalise, and pass laws on the growing of marijuana for medical purposes, as it seeks to establish…

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Blessing In Disguise: Over 170 Street Children Rescued From Kampala Slums

Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA), Non-Government Organizations and Uganda Police have rescued at least 170 street kids from the slums of Kampala and taken them for quarantine and rehabilitation. According to Ms Eunice Tumwebaze, the Manager for Children and Youths at KCCA, children have been settled at Nakivubo Blue Primary School where they are being…

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Kibaale Man Commits Suicide After Testing Positive for Covid-19

Police in Kibaale District is investigating circumstances under which a  25-year-old man reportedly committed suicide after testing positive for COVID-19. This website has learnt the deceased as Joseph Ahaisibwe, a resident of Kibingo village, Bwamiramira Sub County in Kibaale district. He reportedly committed suicide by hanging. According to the deceased relatives, he tested positive for…

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Sad: Kapchorwa CAO Succumbs to Covid-19

Simon Peter Kandole, the Chief Administrative Officer of Kapchorwa district has succumbed to COVID-19. We’ve learnt that Kandole breathed his last in the wee hours of Monday June 28, 2021 at Mbale Regional Referral Hospital where he was admitted in intensive care in critical condition on Friday. Kapchorwa district LC V chairperson, Evelyn Kubalika said…

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Sembabule Drunk Policeman Survives Lynching After Clobbering Woman In Guise Of Enforcing Covid-19 Curfew

The officer in charge of Kyera police post, in Kyera Sub-county, Lwemiyaga County, Sembabule district survived being lynched by an angry mob after he badly beat a woman in the area. We’ve learnt that Gaston Bogere narrowly survived lynching on Thursday evening after he pounced on Juliet Tumwesigye, a resident of Kyera cell A, in…

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Frief As UCC’s Bishop Stephen Senfuma “Innerman” Succumbs to Covid-19

The proprietor of the Uganda Christian Centre Church – UCC Bishop Stephen Senfuma better known as Innerman has died. According to reports, the man of God passed on in the wee hours of Saturday morning at Platinum Hospital, Kampala days back after developing “breathing complications. Officials at his Kikoni based church confirmed the Bishop’s death…

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Covid-19 Delta Variant Worries Health Experts

The Director-General of the World Health Organization Dr Tedros  Adhanom Ghebreyesus has expressed concern over the COVID-19’s delta variant, which he called the most transmissible mutation to date. Dr Ghebreyesus told journalists at a regular briefing last evening that Delta has been identified in at least 85 countries and is spreading rapidly among unvaccinated populations. A…

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