With Jinja attaining a city status effective 1st July 2020, a number of people have come out to express interest in the various elective offices. The latest is former Kagoma county MP Dr. Wilberforce Frank Nabwiso who wants to contest for the new Mayoral seat on the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) ticket. Sources at…
MTN Uganda has today acquired a 12 year 2nd national operating license. This after the telecommunication company concluded the official signing of the License Renewal Agreement with Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) A joint press conference between MTN Uganda and the Regulatory body was held today at the UCC offices in Kampala to showcase the official signing…
Sanyu FM radio in Kampala has rewarded its employee who walked on foot from Buloba for 3 months to work in Kampala during the total lockdown due to Corona virus. Steven Kyaka a traffic controller at Sanyu FM has been walking about 20km on foot every morning to his workplace along Kampala road and back…
Uganda has so far spent over 14 million dollars on COVID-19 tests ever since the disease outbreak, the ministry of health has revealed. According to Dr. Henry Mwebesa, the Director-General Health Services, the funds have been used on the over 216,000 COVID-19 tests that have so far been conducted in the country. Of these tests,…
As religious institutions in Uganda remain closed to congregants due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Bishop David Livingstone Kiganda the proprietor of Christianity Focus Centre has launched a campaign geared towards pressuring government to reopen churches. Addressing journalists at his church in Kisenyi a Kampala suburb today, Bishop Kiganda expressed disappointment with government for taking churches…
Drama ensued on Baba TV’s “Kibuyaga mukibuga” show this morning afterpresidential adviser Jennifer Nakanguubi aka full figure attempted to fight music promoter Andrew Mukasa better known as Bajjo live on set. The motor-mouthed singer who allegedly showed up on the show (which airs every Wednesday from 9am -11am) uninvited accused Bajjo of attacking president Museveni….
Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) has assigned Daniel Muhumuza NuweAbaine the role of interim head of public and cooperate affairs who will double as the spokesperson for KCCA. This is after Peter Kaujju who served in the same position for the last nine years resigned and joined electricity distributor UMEME as head of Communications effective…
Government is set to distribute a total of 27.5 million long-lasting, insecticide-treated mosquito nets throughout the country in a bid to mitigate the malaria burden in the country. According to the state minister of health in charge of primary health care, Dr. Joyce Kaducu, this is to be conducted under the third universal coverage campaign…
Senior Presidential Advisor on ICT Hon Ham Mulira has commended Victoria University for putting in place early measures to help students continue with their classes uninterrupted during the COVID 19 pandemic. Hon Mulira while addressing the media at Victoria University in Kampala said that such early initiatives like giving each new student a laptop will…
More than 200 scientists from over 30 countries are urging the World Health Organization to take more seriously the possibility of the airborne spread of the novel coronavirus as case numbers rise around the world and surge in the United States. In a forthcoming paper titled “It is Time to Address Airborne Transmission of Covid-19,”…
