Month: January 2022
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Twenty community primary schools in Apaa Township bordering Amuru and Adjumani districts have failed to reopen. The schools are; Real Foundation, Apaa, Ocuu, Lolayi, Coro, Mulila, Alony, Real Foundation, Labongo Lworo, St John Bosco, St Kizito Luru, Juka, Akee, Hope Academy, Gazi Nile, Oyanga, Punu Dyang, Jesus The King, Paka Paka and Opiru. Since Monday […]
Left-Godfrey Kimbugwe, the Kooki Deputy Prime Minister and Right-Gertrude Nakalanzi Ssebugwawo, the Coordinator of Buganda Kingdom programmes in Kooki, who was arrested. The four Buganda chiefs who were arrested in Kooki for alleged trespassing have been released with a caution. The officials include Gertrude Nakalanzi Ssebugwawo, the Coordinator of Buganda Kingdom programs in Kooki, Joseph […]
Tunisia coach Mondher Kebaier (right) remonstrates with match officials after their match finished early The Confederation of African Football (Caf) has dismissed a formal complaint lodged by Tunisia’s football federation (FTF) about their game with Mali ending 13 seconds early. In a statement, Caf said the Africa Cup of Nations organising committee met on Thursday and rejected […]
Hosts Cameroon became the first team to qualify for the last 16 at the Africa Cup of Nations with an emphatic 4-1 win over Ethiopia in Group A. Forwards Vincent Aboubakar and Karl Toko-Ekambi scored twice each after Ethiopia took an early lead in Yaounde. Hotessa Dawa slid home after four minutes but the hosts […]
The head coach of Mbarara City Football Club, Hussein Mbalangu, and his two assistants have resigned citing unpaid arrears and poor welfare for players and technical staff. The assistants are Samuel Ssenyange Nsanziiro and Goal Keeping Coach, Jamada Magasi. Mbalangu and his colleagues took over the team three months ago at the start of the […]
Police in Kiira region is investigating circumstances under which a 22-year-old accountant was electrocuted in the swimming pool on Wednesday morning. The deceased identified as Arafat Kalwaza was an employee of the Jinja-based Dreams Recreation Centre. It is alleged that Kalwaza, had gone swimming when a faulty electrical wire near the swimming pool sparked […]
Bugoma Forest Reserve where the two chimpanzees were killed from in September 2021. Photo by Emmanuel Okello. Yafesi Baguma 36, a notorious poacher and resident of Nyaigugu village in Kabwoya Sub-county in Kikuube district is in Police custody on accusations of killing two chimpanzees in Bugoma central forest reserve. Uganda Wildlife Authority-UWA rangers in conjunction with the […]
At least four people were killed and one other critically injured in an accident at Lugo Village, along Lamia road in Bundibugyo District last evening. The accident involved two motorcycles registration numbers UFE-571U and UFD-101D and a numberless Tata truck belonging to ESCO, a cocoa company. Arnold Ategeka, an eyewitness says the driver of the […]
Current COVID-19 vaccines may need to be updated to ensure their continued effectiveness against Omicron and future variants, an expert group appointed by the World Health Organization (WHO) has announced. The opinion is contained in an interim statement from the WHO Technical Advisory Group on COVID-19 Vaccine Composition, which was established last September to review […]
The Inter-Religious Council of Uganda-IRCU has called for a review in the government policy on admission of pregnant and breastfeeding student mothers in schools that re-opened on Monday after a prolonged lockdown. In a joint statement read by the Chairperson IRCU Council His Grace Dr Stephen Samuel Kazimba Mugalu, who is also the Archbishop of […]
