Category: News
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COVID IS BACK! China capital Beijing into partial lockdown as virus sweeps city
By Agencies China Capital City, Beijing, says it is facing its most severe Covid test yet after it saw the country’s first coronavirus deaths in six months and cases continue to soar. Three deaths have been reported in the Chinese capital since Saturday, bringing the country’s official death toll to 5,229. The latest fatalities have…
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KIGO LAND ROW: Serena Kigo encroaches on Ham land, tycoon wants hotel land titles cancelled
By Our Reporter Businessman Hamis Kiggundu alias Ham through Kiham Enterprises, has ran to court seeking for the cancellation of a land title created on the contested Kigo land by Buganda Kingdom in favor of Pearl Development Group. The petition addressed to the commissioner land registration looks forward to seeing the contested land titles cancelled…
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WORLD CUP 2022: Qatar BANS alcohol at Stadiums
Alcohol will not be sold at the World Cup’s eight stadiums in Qatar after Fifa changed its policy two days before the start of the tournament. Alcohol was set to be served “in select areas within stadiums”, despite its sale being strictly controlled in the Muslim country. Those in corporate areas of stadiums at the…
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Driver escapes as Range Rover catches fire on Masaka Road
By Our Reporter The territorial traffic police at Kayabwe has today morning 17th November 2022, registered an incident of fire at a place called Jandira Kayabwe Town Council in Mpigi district along Kampala/ Masaka highway. The incident happened at around 0840hrs when Motor vehicle reg no. UAS 066Q Range Rover Sport (blue in color) caught…
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Government Urged To Capitalize SRHR To Avoid Challenges Arising From It
The rate at which informal urban settlements (slums) are developing in Low and Middle Income. Countries (LMICs) like Uganda are high. With this, comes the growing intersection between urbanization and the reproductive health of key populations. Currently, a number of interventions are being implemented to improve the Sexual Reproductive Health (SRHR) of adolescents in Uganda. …
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Cosase clamps down on extortionate weigh-bridge officials
By Our Reporter Parliament’s Committee on Public Accounts, Commissions, Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises (Cosase) has tasked the Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA) to investigate its weigh-bridge officials involved in corruption, saying they run a cartel. In day three of Cosase’s probe into UNRA, Committee Chairperson, Hon. Joel Ssenyonyi has tasked the roads agency with…
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WORLD CUP: Security issues tough guidelines for bars, bibandas
By Our Reporter As you are all aware, the 2022 FIFA World Cup tournament is slated to commence on the 20.11.2022 in Qatar. For proprietors of social, entertainment places, like hotels, bars, night clubs, restaurants, open-air eating joints, it is a major opportunity for them to attract customers who want to watch live matches from…
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Buganda Land Board Officials Resort To Blackmail After Court Halts Cancellation Of Ham’s Kigo Land Titles
There are unscrupulous individuals at the Buganda Land Board (BLB) who have resorted to blackmail and mudslinging after the Court of Appeal stoped the cancellation of tycoon Hamis Kiggundu’s titles for land he bought in Kigo, off Entebbe Road. It should noted that the Uganda Land Commission in September this year cancelled Ham’s titles for…
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Parliament starts probe into UNRA audit queries
By Our Reporter The Committee on Public Accounts – Commissions, Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises (Cosase) has commenced inquiries into audit queries on the Uganda National Roads Authority (Unra), with virements and reallocation of employee costs. First was on a reallocation of Shs58 billion as virements- the permission given to accounting officers under the Public…
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EC seeks extra Shs20 billion for Women Council polls
By Our Reporter The Deputy Attorney General, Hon. Jackson Kafuuzi, has been directed to prepare a statutory instrument intended to extend the time of office of the Women Councils. “There is a political vacuum and we need this to be resolved. Can we have that document by next Tuesday?” Speaker Anita Among asked. The directive…