Mukono district leaders on Thursday went on the defensive after being blamed for moving at a snail speed in implementation of development projects including road construction funded by the World Bank and the French Development Agency (AFD). The Minister of State for Kampala and Metropolitan Affairs Kabuye Kyofatogabye was in Mukono Municipality to flag off the […]
Findings of a survey on the performance of local chicken rearing as a poverty reduction intervention and hurdles stakeholders encounter in the business has been released in a one-day stakeholders’ meeting held at Mukono Zonal Agriculture Research and Development Institute (MUZARDI). The meeting attended by researchers, farmers, scientists, youth representatives and political leaders, saw release […]
Over 40 church ministers in the Anglican diocese of Luweero have been transferred and promoted in a sweeping adjustment announced by the Bishop Rt. Rev. Wilson Kisekka, during a synod meeting held at St. Mark’s Cathedral Luweero on Thursday. Announcing the changes, Bishop Kisekka said it had been deemed necessary to make the changes in […]
Following identification of isolated cases of measles disease in some districts, a weeklong intensified immunization campaign in Mukono district has begun in government health units and private-not-for-profit (PNFP) health centres. It began on Tuesday November 12, 2024 and is to run up to Tuesday November 18 (next week). The campaign code-named ‘Big Catch Up Immunization’ […]
The Assistant Commissioner for Games and Sports in the Ministry of Education and Sports, Sam Odongo has hailed the management of Global Junior School in Mukono for maintaining the tradition of games and sports as stipulated in the school curriculum. Odongo was officiating as the chief guest at the inter-house sports competition for the nursery […]
One of the Ugandan leading female music icons, Sheebah Karungi has turned 35 years old today. Sheebah shares the way she came into being while at the same time, she is herself waiting to bring the first human life to the world and her journey right from the labour ward to her present admirable status, the […]
Five men who pleaded guilty to the offence of shooting dead a security guard, robbing Banxell Forex Bureau along Kabuusu Road in Lubaga Division and taking the security guard’s gun number SAR-UG PSO 54000868124 with nine rounds of ammunition, have been sentenced to life imprisonment in the general court martial at Makindye. They were charged together with […]
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 […]