NAMILYANGO-MUKONO The education directorate in Lugazi diocese has concluded its 14th annual youth camp which has attracted over 1500 participants. The camp chairperson, Lydia Lukwago Kagoya, the headteacher of St. Balikuddembe Kisoga Senior Secondary School says that the five-day camp held at Namilyango College School in Goma Division, Mukono Municipality has been attended by students […]
Yumbe Magistrates Court has sentenced a teacher of Kumari Primary School in Koboko district to eight years in jail for defilement. Bosco Atiku, 36, a teacher of Kumari Primary School in Koboko District defiled a primary seven pupil of Omgbokolo Primary School in Yumbe district. Atiku was arrested in March at Kumari Primary School by Arafa […]
EBYAFAAYO KU MMAMBA – LUNGFISH (Protopterus Annectens) ● Emmamba esobola okubeera mu kifo ekimu nga terya era nga tenywa okumala emyaka etaano (state of Aestivation) ● Emmamba erina gills ate ne lungs ekigisobozesa okussizza mu mazzi ne ku lukalu. ● Emmamba ery’omuddo, ebikere, amakovu n’obwennyanja obutonotono. ● Emmamba ewanvuwa okutuukira ddala ku fuuti ttaano oba […]
STATE HOUSE – ENTEBBE President Yoweri Museveni on Thursday received a group of retiring army Generals whom he congratulated and send off in glory and diginity. The meeting was held at State House in Entebbe. Among the now retired generals, was the former Inspector General of Police, Kale Kayihura. Museveni cautioned them to productively […]
JOHANNESBURG-SOUTH AFRICA More than 50 people have been killed and over 40 injured in a fire that gutted a five-storeyed building in central Johannesburg on Thursday, the South African city’s emergency services has confirmed. “Among the injured, some suffered from smoke inhalation and were taken for treatment at local hospitals,” the Emergency Management Services spokesman […]
IBANDA-UGANDA The recent fall in the prices of vanilla has frustrated farmers in Ibanda district, many of them fearing that they may not be able to recoup their investment. A kilogram of vanilla was valued at 550,000 Shillings in the pre-COVID-19 period. However, this value gradually decreased to sh210,000 in 2021 and worsened in 2022 […]
President Yoweri Museveni on Monday pardoned Jimmy Lwamafa, the former Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Public Service. Lwamafa’s name came out on the list with other 199 inmates whom President Museveni pardoned following the power vested in him under Article 121(1)(a) of the constitution of the Republic of Uganda, 1995 as amended and one […]
Public Service Minister Wilson Muluri Mukasa, has suspended the on-going restructuring and termination of contracts at the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) in response to complaints raised by the affected employees. In a June 27, 2023 letter to the NEMA Board Chairperson, Muluri indicated that he conducted a thorough analysis of the submissions provided by […]
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni and the First Lady Janet Museveni on Saturday celebrated their 50th marriage anniversary. The President and Maama Janet who got married at Turnham Green Church, England on the 24th of August 1973, first exchanged their marriage commitment vows at Kyamate Church of Uganda in Ntungamo District at a function presided over by […]
HEALTH Cheaper Options to Keep your Kidneys and Liver Fit Do you know that during dialysis, blood is removed from the body through the red tube, passed through the dialysis machine, and then reintroduced into the body system through the blue tube. This process is repeated for four hours while the patient remains immobile in […]
