Stories :: Accepted date: September 2020

Updated: 24 Sep, 06:0806:08

• MOH Fires National Isolation Centre Contractor for Incompetence

  24 Sep 2020, 05:42 Comments 104 Views Entebbe, Uganda Health Business and finance Local government Report

  By the time the contractor left the site two weeks ago, pending works included setting up a waste decontaminating unit, remodelling of the former Tuberculosis ward into a multipurpose unit, plastering, installing washroom facilities and finishing the ceiling and floor works. He explains that Synergy Enterprises Ltd was incompetent because it was not liquid enough to run the project without public funds.

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• Education Ministry to Inspect Schools Ahead of Planned Re-opening

  24 Sep 2020, 05:27 Comments 101 Views Kampala, Uganda Education Updates

  The plan is to visit all schools across the country to gauge their readiness and ability to implement Standard Operating Procedures for schools before the reopening.

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• Parliament Demands Audit into Fire that Razed Makerere's Ivory Tower

  24 Sep 2020, 05:01 Comments 99 Views Parliament Report

  Muyingo told Parliament that the University was now faced with the task of restoring the iconic building in time for the centenary celebrations due in 2022 and that the academic programmes at the University would resume on time as directed by the government and all arrangements to receive the students have been finalized.

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• 114 Ugandans Reject Offer for Repatriation from Rwanda

  24 Sep 2020, 04:53 Comments 104 Views East Africa Updates

  According to Annah Katusiime, the Deputy Head of missions of Uganda in Rwanda, only 66 people out of 180 who had registered with Uganda Embassy in Rwanda ready to be patriated on Wednesday showed up.

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• NUP Reopens Search for Lord Mayoral Candidate

  24 Sep 2020, 00:36 Comments 170 Views Politics Election Breaking news

  This follows a move by Kawempe North MP Latif Sebaggala Ssengendo to pull out of the race, a day after he was endorsed by the party’s Elections Management Committee- EMC to be the party flag bearer.

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• Pictorial; Kachung Water Plant Submerged

  23 Sep 2020, 21:01 Comments 122 Views Dokolo District, Uganda Environment Lifestyle Science and technology Updates

  The plant which serves Lira catchment area is almost fully submerged by the floods, forcing the authorities to improvise ways of maintaining constant water supply in the area.

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• Experts Report Drop in Detection of Drug Resistant TB

  23 Sep 2020, 20:50 Comments 125 Views Kampala, Uganda Health Updates

  Even as the World Health Organization released new guidelines early this year and countries including Uganda adopted new drugs which take a shorter duration, Adakun says some patients have already started resisting them whereby at Mulago alone, five patients have so far resisted the new drugs.

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• Govt Advises Parents to Enrol Finalists in Nearby Schools

  23 Sep 2020, 19:13 Comments 223 Views Kampala, Uganda Education Report

  Dr Kedrace Turyagenda, the Director of Education Standards is of the view that to minimize situations where COVID-19 might be imported from different communities into schools, parents should enrol their children in schools within their current communities.

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• Parliament Queries Planned Re-opening of Schools

  23 Sep 2020, 19:06 Comments 195 Views Parliament Report

  However, Soroti County MP Kenneth Esiangu questioned why the government was in the rush to open schools at a time when the country is registering high numbers of COVID-19 cases yet the schools had been closed before a single case was registered.

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• Chaos as Candidates Protest Slow Pace at Kawempe Electoral Office

  23 Sep 2020, 18:47 Comments 149 Views Kampala, Uganda Politics Report

  According to the Electoral Commission Schedule, aspirants from Kyebando Central were due for nomination today, Wednesday. However, the commission had a backlog from Tuesday, which had to be cleared, before starting on a new group.

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• Rukutana Wins Controversial Rushenyi NRM Primaries Top story

  23 Sep 2020, 18:33 Comments 292 Views Ntungamo, Uganda Election Politics Updates

  According to Odoi, Rukutana polled 25310 votes (46.27 %) beating his closest rival, Naome Kabasharira who garnered 25290 votes (46.23%). Bob Nahabwe came third with 2270 votes followed by Nicholas Niwahereza with 1229 votes, Norman Beigana Kashereka 350 votes and Elia Bwagara Mwesigwa 256 votes.

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• Uganda's Exports Up But Trade Deficit Grew Higher

  23 Sep 2020, 18:25 Comments 166 Views Business and finance Updates

  Export of fresh foods was the most affected as the aviation sector was closed down before a handful of cargo planes started operating at Entebbe and Jomo Kenyatta International Airports. However, dry commodities like coffee and gold continued thriving.

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• Nabweru Woman Strangled to Death in Domestic Brawl

  23 Sep 2020, 18:07 Comments 150 Views Kampala, Uganda Security Crime Breaking news

  The Kampala Metropolitan Deputy Police Spokesperson, Luke Owoyesigyire, says the incident was reported by Masudi Kamya, the Nabweru South Cell Defense Secretary.

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• MPs Resist EC Position on Candidates’ Names

  23 Sep 2020, 17:54 Comments 247 Views Parliament Report

  The Deputy Attorney General Jackson Kafuuzi however said that for those aspirants who changed names before the 26th March 2015 through a statutory declaration or affidavit, the presentation of a sworn affidavit shall be valid for nominations by the Electoral Commission.

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• Woman Arrested for Killing Husband`s Girlfriend

  23 Sep 2020, 17:30 Comments 293 Views Nebbi, Uganda Crime Human rights Security Updates

  Charles Mba Ulangi, a resident of Angir cell in Nebbi Municipality, who reported the matter to police, says that the late Ayirwoth was called by the suspect’s husband to spend Monday night with him.

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• Sound in Pit Latrines Annoys Wakiso CAO

  23 Sep 2020, 17:17 Comments 143 Views Wakiso, Uganda Health Report

  While addressing water related organizations operating in Wakiso district on Tuesday, Kuruhira expressed dismay over the community’s construction of pit latrines on tiny pieces of land which finally get filled up and they fail to find others places to dig new ones. He insists that if pit latrines must be constructed in Wakiso, they should be those ones which are used to turn wastes into biogas and the residue to taken to gardens as fertilizers.

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• Kitgum Vegetable Farmers Counting Loses

  23 Sep 2020, 17:10 Comments 171 Views Kitgum, Uganda Local government Agriculture Northern Updates

  Pamela Akello, a site Agronomist at the irrigation scheme acknowledges the challenges faced by the farmers, saying it had a devastating effect on the projected sale of crops after harvest in the last season.

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• War Brewing Between MPs and Marabou Stork For Parliamentary Space

  23 Sep 2020, 16:59 Comments 239 Views Kampala, Uganda Parliament Health Updates

  The Minister of State for Energy Sarah Opendi has raised "a matter of national importance" in Parliament., saying the nesting of Marabou Storks could be hazardous and could bring about zoonotic diseases that people don’t know

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• Voter Education Flaws Stir Queries on EC Ability to Deliver Free and Fair Polls

  23 Sep 2020, 16:58 Comments 227 Views Kampala, Uganda 2021 Elections Politics Interview

  Voter education usually takes place before the start of the election cycle, to purposely assist the election administration in its task of delivering a free, fair, efficient and cost-effective election. It encompasses the basic voter information that every voter must have in order to arrive prepared at the voting station and vote on the dedicated polling days.

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• Karimojong Eat Expensive Imported Foods As Uganda Farmers Suffer

  23 Sep 2020, 16:37 Comments 200 Views Moroto, Uganda Science and technology Updates

  Currently, the food supplements being distributed to malnourished children and expectant mothers in Karamoja sub region as well as in refugee settlements are imported from Rwanda and Pakistan, and therefore the agency meets high costs; prompting UN Resident Coordinator Rosa Malango to push for locally manufactured supplements.

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