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BIG 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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Universities, 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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Parliament 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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Victoria 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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Gov’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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Justice 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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ALICE 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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Health 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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Parliament 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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Ugandan 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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Facebook 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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NRM 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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Counter-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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MPs, 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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Security 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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Tanzania – 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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Rev 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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Police 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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Six 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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Terrorists 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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NCHE 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...