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972Govt releases grant ahead of schools reopening
KAMPALA, UGANDA: The Ministry of Education and Sports has bowed to pressure and released part of the capitation grant for all government-aided...
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1.0KBIG STORY: What really made Matovu a suicide bomber?
Days after he reportedly blew himself up on a bus full of passengers headed to western Uganda from Kampala city, little is...
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906Universities, institutions brace for reopening as physical classes resume
KAMPALA, UGANDA: Universities and other tertiary institutions all over Uganda are today’s et to finally reopen four months after closure by the...
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840Parliament to limit access to only Vaccinated MPs, Staff starting November
KAMPALA, UGANDA: Parliament of Uganda has announced that effective Monday, November 1, only MPs, staff and visitors vaccinated against COVID-19 will gain...
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2.0KVictoria University Extends 5290 Bursaries to Members of Parliament
KAMPALA, UGANDA: Victoria University Kampala has announced that it has extended 10 bursaries to each of the 529 members of the 11th...
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1.1KGov’t to rehabilitate public secondary schools
KAMPALA, UGANDA: The Second Deputy Prime Minister Gen. Moses Ali, has announced government’s plan to rehabilitate and expand public secondary schools across...
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820Justice Bart Katureebe installed as UMI Chancellor
KAMPALA, UGANDA: The former Chief Justice of Uganda, Mr. Bart Magunda Katureebe was on Friday installed as the new Chancellor at Uganda...
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978ALICE LUBEGA: Uganda’s first female legislator dies at 103
KAMPALA, UGANDA: Uganda’s First Female Member of Parliament, Hon. Florence Alice Lubega has died at 103 years, the Daily Express reports. Lubega’s...
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620Health ministry secures UGX94Bn additional funding to install oxygen plants
KAMPALA, UGANDA: The Ministry of Health has secured an additional of 94 billion Shillings for the procurement and installation of oxygen plants...
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843Parliament stops UGX3Bn stimulus package to Kampala Serena Hotel
KAMPALA, UGANDA: The Trade Committee of Parliament has stopped the payment of a stimulus package of 3 billion Shillings to Serena Hotel...
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1.4KUgandan economy, schools to fully reopen in January 2022
KAMPALA, UGANDA: President Yoweri Museveni Thursday announced that schools and the rest of the Ugandan economy will fully reopen in January 2022...
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1.6KFacebook changes company name to ‘Meta’ in major rebrand
Facebook has changed its name to “Meta” in a shift away from social media and towards developing “the metaverse,” a digital world...
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888NRM boss in Kayunga quits party ahead of LC5 by-election
KAYUNGA, UGANDA: The National Resistance Movement (NRM) party leaders in Kayunga have been thrown in great panic after the untimely resignation of...
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824Counter-Terrorism police detonate bomb in Sembabule forest
SEMBABAULE, UGANDA: Counter-Terrorism Police and the Bomb squad personnel on Wednesday rushed to Nakasagazi village, Kasongi parish in Kawanda sub-county, to retrieve a...
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965MPs, gov’t agencies top list of tax defaulters
The former MPs include Odonga Otto (111 million Shillings), Julie Mukoda Zabwe (15 million Shillings), Sam Engola (32 million Shillings), Fred Angella...
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882Security heightened in bus terminals after recent terrorist attacks
KAMPALA, UGANDA: Security has been heightened in all bus parks in Kampala in the wake of Monday’s explosion on a bus. The...
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610Tanzania – Uganda oil and gas symposium set for November in Dar-es-Salaam
KAMPALA, UGANDA: Private Sector Foundation Uganda together with Tanzania Private Sector Foundation in partnership with the ministry of foreign affairs through its Uganda...
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1.5KRev Pons Ozelle elected 3rd Nebbi Diocese Bishop
KAMPALA, UGANDA: The College of Bishops in the Church of Uganda have elected Rev Pons Ozelle, as the new and 3rd bishop...
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1.4KPolice implicate major petrol firms in Shs1.8bn ADF cash racket, detain three
KAMPALA, UGANDA: The security agencies have implicated petroleum and real estate companies in the laundering of over Shs1.8b to bankroll the activities...
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1.4KSix arrested, others wanted as Minister Ogwang storms Luuka to monitor gov’t projects
LUUKA, UGANDA; Several civil servants in Luuka district were made to sweat as the State Minister for Economic Monitoring, Peter Ogwang questioned...
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1.1KTerrorists are cowards, will be defeated- Jessica Alupo
KAMPALA, UGANDA: Suspected terrorists who are said to have attacked Uganda in two different bomb blasts, are cowards, and will all be...
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1.1KNCHE advises universities on new entrants, vaccination
KAMPALA, UGANDA: The National Council for Higher Education-NCHE has advised higher institutions of learning to avoid scheduling classes for newly admitted students...
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915Former South Korean president Roh Tae-woo dies
AFP NEWS: Former South Korean president and general Roh Tae-woo, who was instrumental in crushing the Gwangju Uprising at a cost of...
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1.1KMuseveni appoints Maj Gen Nabasa new Military Police Commander
KAMPALA, UGANDA: President Museveni has appointed former Special Forces Commander Maj Gen Don Nabasa as the new commander of Military Police in...
