Stories :: User: Kimbowa Ivan :: Accepted date: February 2020

Updated: 29 Feb, 10:5010:50

• NOPP Considers Hiring Kalangala Ferry to Transport Palm Oil Seedlings to Buvuma

  27 Feb 2020, 22:10 Comments 183 Views Buvuma District, Uganda Agriculture Local government Report

  Currently, there is a single ferry plying the route from Kiyindi landing site in Buikwe District to Kirongo landing site in Buvuma district. However, Wilson Sserunjogi, the Buvuma District Oil Palm Project Oil Person, says the ferry is in bad shape very bad shape and may not deliver the seedlings on time as anticipated.

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• Buvuma Residents Occupy Flooded Homes Top story

  27 Feb 2020, 11:06 Comments 267 Views Buvuma District, Uganda Environment Health Local government Report

  Charles Ayisu, the Busamuzi Sub County LC 3 Chairperson expresses fear of starvation because most of their food crops were submerged. He appeals to government work out a quick remedy for people staying near the Lake Shores to avoid a crisis in the future.

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• Crocodiles Scare Fishermen from Lake Victoria

  26 Feb 2020, 07:34 Comments 288 Views Buvuma District, Uganda Environment Agriculture Security Report

  John Magunda, a fisherman in Buwooya sub county notes that the crocodiles hide under stones during the evening hours and often attack them forcing them to abandon their boats. He says the crocodiles do not only scare them from accessing the lake, but they also destroy their fishing nets.

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• Museveni Directs Installation of Security Lights Around UCU Campus

  23 Feb 2020, 10:52 Comments 311 Views Mukono, Uganda Education Parliament Security Report

  The directive followed a request by the UCU guild president Timothy Kadaga on the basis of cumulative cases of thefts taking place in villages where a sizeable number of students reside. Kadaga said that several students had lost personal belongings and equipment through house break-ins, while others are waylaid by thugs, thumped and robbed.

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• UCU Pilots e-Voting App to Ease Campus Polls

  22 Feb 2020, 18:22 Comments 387 Views Mukono, Uganda Science and technology Education Election Gallery Report

  UCU Web and e-learning Administrator Edwin Byarugaba explains that the e-voting system was developed on the request of the Director of Students Affairs-DOSA to mainly solve voting challenges at the university. This resulted in their new app named ‘e-Chagua,’ conjoined from a Kiswahili word meaning voting.

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• Njeru Residents Storm Municipal Offices Over Destroyed Properties, Crops Top story

  20 Feb 2020, 15:00 Comments 334 Views Buikwe, Uganda Security Business and finance Local government Report

  Muhamad Katimbo, a resident from Bugungu LC I notes that they complained to Umeme about the destruction of their property but to date nothing has been done. According to Katimbo, they will not allow the power company to transmit power through their area for breaching the agreement they had with them.

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• Mukono Taxi Drivers Protest Relocation Orders

  19 Feb 2020, 11:12 Comments 278 Views Mukono, Uganda Business and finance Security Local government Report

  Mukono Town Clerk, Richard Monday, says the move is intended to reduce confusion in the transport sector and stop reckless driving in major trading centers. However, the taxi drivers say they are ready to defy the directive because passengers avoid taxis in parks.

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• Kyaggwe County Leaders Tasked to Fight Persistent Child Sacrifice

  16 Feb 2020, 10:45 Comments 257 Views Religion Human rights Lifestyle Report

  In Mukono, statistics at the district probation department indicate that there about 200 cases of child abuses including seven cases of child sacrifices that were registered last year.

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• Three Chinese Nationals Isolated in Mukono

  13 Feb 2020, 15:10 Comments 437 Views Mukono, Uganda Health Security Report

  The Ministry’s Spokesperson Emmanuel Ainebyoona, says that they have decided to isolate them as a preventive measure against the spread of the coronavirus.

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• Parallel Grassroot Elections Split DP Members in Mukono Top story

  13 Feb 2020, 10:39 Comments 451 Views Politics Election Gallery Polls Report

  Kidandala cleared the DP faction led by the Mukono Municipality Member of Parliament, Betty Nambooze who is also the Mukono District Party Chairperson to hold grassroots elections from LC I to LC 3 chairpersons this Saturday.

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• UCU Petitions Security Minister Over Ntaawo Land Dispute Top story

  12 Feb 2020, 16:02 Comments 354 Views Mukono, Uganda Security Education Crime Report

  Now, the university has petitioned the Security Minister, General Elly Tumwine, saying the remaining portion of the university is also under threat of being grabbed by unknown claimants.

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• Traders, Travelers Irked by Delayed Completion of Kampala-Jinja Road

  11 Feb 2020, 12:28 Comments 335 Views Mukono, Uganda Business and finance Security Local government Report

  Uganda National Roads Authority –UNRA embarked on the emergency repairs of sections along the road, covering the stretch from Nakawa to Mukono, a job tendered to a Serbian firm; Energy project-Niskogradnja. The work Which was intended to improve the pavement surface started in July 2019 and was initially planned to take nine months.

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• Dr Aaron Mushengyezi Appointed UCU Vice Chancellor

  10 Feb 2020, 07:09 Comments 567 Views Mukono, Uganda Education Sport Religion Report

  Dr Mushengyezi, who is also the dean of the school of languages, literature and communications at Makerere University, was appointed on February 1, 2020, in Mityana at a meeting involving the House of Bishops of Church of Uganda, Search committee and University’s Council.

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• Witchcraft Practices Discouraging Tourists from Ssezibwa Falls Top story

  9 Feb 2020, 13:19 Comments 549 Views Mukono, Uganda Tourism Religion Environment Report

  Janet Kajumba, a local guide at the falls notes that the management of the place is challenged to convince witches and their groups to pay the Shillings 5000 entry fees to access the place.

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• Goons Attack UCU Workers at Ntaawo Farm Top story

  8 Feb 2020, 13:01 Comments 434 Views Mukono, Uganda Security Election Crime Report

  John Remmy Amara, the Supervisor of the UCU Land holdings at Ntaawo notes that about two weeks back they were involved in a fracas with Christopher Kiiza who showed up claiming ownership of the university farm land.

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• Ggulu Cultural Site Management, Buganda Land Board Clash Top story

  5 Feb 2020, 17:13 Comments 285 Views Tourism Environment Report

  Jamidah Nakalema, the Caretaker of Ggulu cultural site, says that only one of the five acres of the land occupied by the site has been parceled out to private developers by Buganda Land Board-BLB.

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• Kawolo Hospital Restricts Ambulance to Critical Emergencies Top story

  3 Feb 2020, 07:29 Comments 439 Views Buikwe, Uganda Health Security Lifestyle Report

  Although Kawolo hospital receives a big number of emergencies because of its strategic location along the busy Kampala-Jinja Highway, the facility has a single ambulance registration number UG 3633M that was bought during the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting-CHOGM 2007.

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• Pictorial: A Scenic View of Ssezibwa Falls Where Tourists, Traditional Believers Go to Seek Blessings

  2 Feb 2020, 18:49 Comments 312 Views Buikwe, Uganda Tourism Religion Environment Slideshow

  Legendary tales has it that Ssezibwa was born of a woman called Nakangu Tebatesa, wife of Nsubuga Ssebwato. The mythical around the place is that Nakangu gave birth to two twine rivers of which the older one (Wasswa) was named Ssezibwa and the young one (Kato) named River Mubeya in Nyenga.

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• Mukono Headteachers Challenge UNEB Secretary on Syllabus Completion

  1 Feb 2020, 11:15 Comments 332 Views Mukono, Uganda Education Sport Report

  However, headteachers claim that all topics can be dealt with from senior one to three once competent teachers are deployed to do the work. They believe the more the syllabus is prolonged, learners find insufficient time for revision.

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