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Road Report shows 50% of drivers, motorcyclists are self-taught

According to the report findings, only about 46% of the drivers interviewed had undergone training by a licensed driving school or certified...

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Opposition puts French diplomats on the spot over oil

The MPs spoke against a backdrop of a video clip that circulated over the weekend showing French President Emanuel Macron sandwiched by...

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Speaker Among condems police brutality on opposition politicians

The speaker said this while reacting to the manner in which police handled the arrest of former FDC presidential candidate, Dr. Kiiza...

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Police arrest five over suspected robbery in Nansana

Owoyesigyire said the five were arrested on Tuesday morning at about 4 a.m by a team of police officers who were on...

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Three dead, scores injured in fatal Nakasongola accident

The grisly accident happened about 10kms to Migyera Town when a Taxi Registration Number UAX 303F overturned after suffering a tyre burst...

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Jinja businessman shot dead by unknown gunmen riding motorcycle

Malore and his 39 siblings were due to hold their final property sharing harmonization meeting on Sunday, May 15, 2022, only to...

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Prime Suspect Behind National Theatre Fire Arrested

According to Owoyesigyire, Sanjo is said to have been welding at one of the kiosks when the fire started with what some...

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WATCH: Property Worth Millions Destroyed in National Theatre Fire Outbreak

The fire outbreak is said to have started from the kiosks near the lower gate at Dewinton Road in Kampala. Eyewitnesses at...

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Sejusa, Tumwine among 34 UPDF Generals retiring this Monday

The official ceremony for retiring generals will be held at the Ministry of Defence headquarters in Mbuya starting tomorrow Monday, May 16,...

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Over 350 graduate at Global Institute Makerere, RCC Mwanjuzi urges them to use internet appropriately

RCC Prossy Mwanjuzi, who was the guest of honour urged the graduates to always aim higher by advancing in their respective courses.

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Police rescue child after missing for 4 years, parents arrested for connivance

"Kisakye was purportedly stolen from her parents' home in Buyengo town council, Jinja district four years back by her paternal aunt Kevin...

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Man shot dead for stoning police officer at New taxi park

"It is alleged that while police officers were on a patrol vehicle that had parked in the New taxi park, an unidentified...

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13 dead, scores injured in Masindi, Bukomansimbi Accidents

In the Masindi road crash, five people died on spot after the lorry they were traveling in overturned at Ikoba junction in...

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FULL LIST: Here are the six candidates nominated for Omoro by-election

The six candidates according to the EC Roadmap for the by-election will have 10 days to campaign and rally support across Omoro...

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Museveni woos Turkish investors to Uganda

Museveni informed the visiting Turkish trade minister that now Ugandans are waking up and engaging in agro-production, the reason he wants more...

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Gov’t targets 353,000 households with clean cooking technologies

Batebe explains that the fund will also offer working capital to clean cooking service providers, who include manufacturers and distributors of clean...

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How FDC’s Owani accepted Shs150m bribe to withdraw from Omoro race, Party fronts new candidate

According to him, he is saying that they have offered him Shs150m. So, we said if you had picked that money that...

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No funds for coffee seedlings in next FY – Kasaija

However, Kasaija said government will, use the Parish Development Model (PDM) funds to extend agricultural inputs including coffee seedlings to farmers.

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Govt announces date and costs for renewal of expiring National IDs

On the financial cost estimates of the mass renewal and enrollment exercise for national IDs, Minister Muhoozi says government will need over...

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UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed dies aged 73

The Ministry of Presidential Affairs announced a 40-day period of mourning for the death of the President whose modernization policies helped transform...

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IG Kamya wants three OPM officials interdicted over missing shs1.2bn

The implicated persons are Julius Kamuza, the settlement Commandant, Byasali Kabi who is the Protection officer and Armitage Basikania, the Desk Officer....