Administrators of Mukono Municipality Special Needs Education (SNE) Primary School in Ggulu ward have suggested that sign language be added to languages on the school curriculum like Swahili, to counter the problem of lack of placement for their learners on completion of primary level. They argue that children with hearing problems have nobody to communicate […]
The head of laity for Lugazi Catholic Diocese, Augustine Kato has decried tendencies including drunkenness, land grabbing, domestic violence and other unreligious acts among Ugandans, saying that such acts have compromised believers’ martyrdom as bequeathed to us by God. Dr. Kato said that what is more unfortunate is the fact that these days, land grabbers […]
The outspoken catholic Priest, Rev. Fr. Deogratius Kiibi Kateregga of St. Joseph Parish Mpigi has invoked God to send the holy spirit to bail Uganda out of a situation of condemnation, saying the country has been eaten away by rot characterized by corruption, pornography, outright theft and other forms of immorality. He said that today politics […]
Police in Rakai district are holding a 52-year-old housemaid on suspicion of having adulterated food which she served to the family, leading to the death of the housewife and hospitalisation of six other family members. Peace Naturinda, who has for the last about two months been working as a housemaid in the home of Lucerere […]
Masaka Grade I Magistrate, Aloysius Natwijuka has sentenced a 33-year old woman, Stellah Namwanje of Binyonyi A zone in Nyando-Mukungwe division, in Masaka City to 35 years in jail after she pleaded guilty to the offence of forcing her friend’s 11-month child to eat her (Namwanje’s) faeces and drink her urine. Namwanje was arrested following […]
As almost all political parties get bedeviled by the cancerous power struggle within their ranks, the malaise has begun showing up in the little-spoken about Uganda Federal Alliance (UFA), with the two warring factions trading accusations and counter-accusations in the countdown to next year’s general elections. The first faction headed by the party president Charles […]
Leaders in Buvuma islands have petitioned Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) to devise safer and faster means of ferrying final examination papers for candidates in the 52 islands forming the district, than transporting them aboard local wooden fishing boats. They argued that because examinations are held in the wet month when the sea is very […]
The Communications Director for Mukono Diocese, Moses Ssewankambo and a Mukono-based Vlogger Dalton Yiga Matovu, last night survived with severe injuries after being waylaid by goons as they retired home from a function at Ssonde in Goma division, Mukono Municipal Council. Yiga, who formerly corresponded with Radio Simba from Mukono was severely injured and was […]
Renowned financial expert, Dr. Ezra Suruma has made a thorough and expert explanation on the controversial and hot debate on whether to or not to merge the supreme coffee regulating body of Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA) with the mother Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries (MAAIF) to allegedly decrease on costs of running […]
