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Dr. Monica Musenero, the co-chair of the national COVID-19 Enforcement Team has directed Butebo Resident District Commissioner to beat residents defying the COVID-19 preventive guidelines issued by the president and Ministry of Health. ‘’Bwana RDC just Beat them if they are not listening I am speaking this as a co-chair of the national enforcement team […]
A Boda boda rider in Kikuube district who went missing two weeks ago has been found dead. Ambrose Tugumisirize was attached to Wairagaza Boda-Boda stage in Kyangwali Sub County in Kikuube district. Tugumisirize is said to have disappeared after an unknown person hired him from the stage on June 8th, 2021 to ride him on […]
Families of people who have died from the second wave of covid-19 or are infected could suffer mental problems. Mental health experts warn that patients, family members and also health workers are likely to suffer from anxiety and even mild depression. Dr Hillary Irimaso, a psychiatrist and also the general secretary of the Uganda Psychiatric […]
Kampala City Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago has asked government to decentralise COVID-19 vaccination and testing to allow easy access to the services especially during the days of nationwide lockdown Instituted by President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni. Lukwago, speaking at a press briefing at City Hall today asked that the vaccination and testing services that have been […]
Seventeen newly appointed ministers have failed to take the oath of office at Kololo Independence Grounds. Some of the ministers failed to appear because they are contacts of COVID-19 victims and are in self-isolation, others are undergoing treatment while others have lost relatives among other reasons. Some of those who failed to show up are […]
The Uganda People’s Defence Forces – UPDF has warned civilians against confronting soldiers who are enforcing the new guidelines intended to curtail the spread of COVID-19 during the on-going lockdown. President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni announced a fresh lockdown last Friday after the country registered a surge of new COVID-19 cases. Museveni also banned use of […]
Kampala, 21 st June 2021: Airtel Uganda, the Smartphone Network with the widest 4G coverage in Uganda, has today announced the separation of Airtel Money from its Telecom Business. Technically, the Airtel Money Business has been transferred to Airtel's affiliate, Airtel Mobile Commerce Uganda Limited ("AMC Uganda"). The business separation complies with a new law […]
Anyone can get COVID-19 — and we do mean anyone. But not everyone battles the same symptoms — or severity of symptoms — while ill with this new virus. While some people get seriously sick and require specialized care in an emergency room or hospital, most people experience mild symptoms that can be self-treated in isolation […]
Mbarara City Boda Boda Association has formed a special committee to help in the implementation of Ministry of Health Covid-19 guidelines and Standard Operation Procedures- SOPs. In his address to the nation on Covid-19, President Yoweri Museveni warned Boda Boda riders against the violation of the guidelines or risk total lockdown. He cautioned Boda Boda […]
A team of operatives suspected to be from the Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence-CMI spent the better part of Wednesday searching the home of Sheikh Yusuf Nyanzi, one of the suspects in the murder of former Police Spokesperson, Andrew Felix Kaweesi, his bodyguards Kenneth Erau and driver, Godfrey Mambewa in March 2017. The operatives stormed Nyanzi’s […]
