Just days after assuming office, the new administration of British Prime Minister Theresa May has made plans to bare foreign students from working in Britain under a fresh crackdown on immigration. Among other proposals to be tabled later this week, May also wants the stay of the foreign students to be cut to two years. […]
The electoral commission has issued a warning against fraudsters whom they say use the name of the body to mislead the unsuspecting members of the public especially on the on-going nullification of results for Members of Parliament by Courts. In a press release to journalists, the acting EC Chairperson, Dr. Joseph Biribonwa said they had […]
Drought exacerbated by the El Nino weather pattern could lead to a spike in new HIV infections in southern Africa as women and girls turn to sex to survive and patients miss treatments, the United Nations children’s’ agency UNICEF said on Tuesday. More than 60 million people, two thirds of them in east and southern […]
At least 570 young girls are infected with HIV in Uganda according to the latest findings by a United Nations report. The findings is a set back to the country’s efforts to curb the scourge that has claimed thousands of lives since it was first discovered in the early 80’s. It is also more scaring […]
The odd saying that one Kenyan can do a job worthy six Ugandans is about to change if we are to go by a new World Bank report on productivity in a work place. According to the The East African newspaper,the World Bank report indicates that Kenyan workers are less productive than their counterparts in […]
In a series of losses to electoral petitions coined around inadequate academic papers, the High Court sitting in Jinja has nullified the election of National Resistance Movement (NRM)’s Hajat Rehema Watongola as a member of parliament for Kamuli municipality. Kamuli Municipality was created as part of the 12 municipalities approved by parliament and became effective […]
Residents in Mukono municipality have more reason to smile following the Rotary Club of Kampala constructing a modern health facility to cater for their health needs. The hospital worthy over Uganda shillings 400 million will go a long way in supplementing government efforts on improving health delivery in the country. Ranked the third best in […]
The government of Uganda has introduced an online monitoring system around the oil sites especially Lake Albert as a measure to safeguard the water quality and avoid future water contamination from oil wastes and spillages. The monitoring online system is designed to send a warning message electronically to a central point at the ministry of […]
PATIENTS in Masaka hospital are staring death in the face following the National Medical Store’s (NMS) failure to deliver lifesaving drugs for 2 weeks now sighting the recent closure of roads by government as a cause for the delays. The roads were closed during the visits of South Korean and Turkish presidents to Uganda earlier […]
Five terror suspects, who were earlier acquitted by Kampala High Court, have been re-charged with terrorism and related conspiracies at the Chief Magistrate’s Court in Jinja. According to a police statement, which forms basis of the charge, the suspects Omar Awadhi Omar,Muhammad Hamid Suleiman alas Abu Zainab, Abibaker Batemtyo, Dr. Ismail Kalule and Yaya Suleiman […]