News Headlines
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1.0KHoima Catholic Diocese seeks UGX 40Bn for construction of specialized hospital
Upon completion, the facility will comprise specialized pediatric, antenatal, gynecology, emergency, radiology, physiotherapy, and theater wings.
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900BUDGET SPEECH: Financial Year 2022/2023
In an insight view of the budget, Uganda’s GDP per capita increased to USD 1,046 (Shs3.7 million) per person per year, while...
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911National Budget 22/23: Transport, PDM, Security eat big, No new taxes introduced
In the Sh 48 trillion budget, government expects to generate up to 30.8 trillion of this money locally, of which 23.75 trillion...
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1.3KBURSTED: How under-fire businessman Eriya Mubiru used fake documents to get juicy engineering deals from govt
Mubiru is alleged of having used fake academic documents to claim that he was a qualified Engineer to get juicy contracts from...
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1.6KBritain records 104 more monkeypox cases
The agency told people in Britain to contact a sexual health clinic if they have a rash with blisters, and if in...
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671Education minister halts allocation of funds from private sector
In November last year when Uganda prepared for school reopening, the education ministry organised a symposium with the aim of bringing together...
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622Councilors defer Mpigi district budget over lack of quorum
Mpigi district council passed a 38.8 billion Shillings budget on Friday amid grumbling among leaders.
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982Gulu city earmarks Ugx 50m to establish an engineering laboratory
Christopher Balmoi Omara, the Gulu City Engineer, told URN in an interview that most public and private infrastructures in Gulu City
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718Panic as Masaka Diocese cemetery faces demolition over city road works
According to Fr. Luyimbaazi, out of mutual engagements with UNRA, the Masaka diocese as the landlord agreed to have all the affected...
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580Bunyoro kingdom demands Museveni’s intervention over 1,000 Kyangwali evictees
The affected people have, since February this year, pitched camp in the precincts of the office of Kikuube Resident District Commissioners
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721MPs commit to protect human rights defenders
The bill seeks to recognise, promote and enhance the protection of the work and activities of human rights defenders.
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1.5KPolice probe Lubiri High School Management over negligence in viral bus video
The development comes at a time when Lubiri High School has finally admitted that the students in their viral video belong to...
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1.1K5% of nodding syndrome victims battling severe brain damage
OTUKE, UGANDA: Five percent of nodding syndrome victims in Acholi and parts of Lango sub-region have developed severe mental problems, the health...
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452Uganda strives to eliminate child labor worsened by COVID-19 pandemic
The Uganda National Household Survey 2019/2020 shows that child labor increased to 36 percent up from 21 percent.
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702Former Makerere University accused of killing his daughter, maid arrested
He was picked up from his hideout in Rujenje village in Buhweju district.
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822KARAMOJA: 291 guns recovered, 393 warriors killed
President Yoweri Museveni ordered the relaunch of offensive disarmament operations in Karamoja on July 24 last year in a bid to restore...
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653RDC tells Muslims to fully support NRM Govt to get big jobs
Speaking at a congratulatory party of Hajjat Ahmed Saba, who has been appointed director for human resource at Civil Aviation Authority (CAA)
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915Crested Cranes are CECAFA senior women’s champs
The final of the championship was graced by the speaker of the parliament of Uganda Anitah Among, who handed the victorious Crested...
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906Why young pupils are burning schools in Uganda
Police investigation have established that the school was burnt by a primary seven pupil, who had been sent back to school by...
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632Chinese investors petition PM over unstable electricity
Represented by Cai Jiashun, Zong Bo and Lin Yangbin, the investors early this week petitioned Nabbanja explaining that irregular power supply
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765Police cautions bodas on using Northern Bypass flyovers
Farida Nampiima, the traffic police spokesperson, explains that boda boda riders who use the upper part of northern bypass have increasingly become...
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678Ntoroko gets new CAO
According to a letter by the minister for local governments Rafael Magyezi, he received communication from the Ntoroko county Gerald Rwemulikya
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619Relatives storm Mulago after Nile Avenue taxi crash
The crash involving a taxi UAW 987Y along Nile avenue claimed two lives on spot and injured 10 others.
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1.4KMinister Magyezi appoints Chalres Otai as interim CAO for Ntoroko district
According to Minister Magyezi, the deployment of the new Ntoroko CAO came after the area county MP Hon. Gerald Rwemulikya requested for...
