The Uganda Network of Young People living with HIV/AIDS (UNYPA) has today launched a mini condom campaign aimed at increasing the demand and use of condoms among young people in a bid to curb unintended pregnancies, new infections and spread of STIs and STDs. This campaign is going to be implemented in the districts of…
Heavy rains accompained with hailstorm on Wednesday afternoon destroyed crops and houses in Rubuguri subcounty, Kisoro district. A total of 445 people from 65 households in the villages of Rushaga, Higabiro and Kasheija have been affected. The affected residents are now in fear that if this continues they won’t be able to harvest anything from their gardens…
Construction of the new state of the art Nakivubo Stadium is on course and is expected to be completed before the end of next year. This has been revealed by city tycoon Hamis Kiggundu the director Ham Enterprises Limitted which was contracted to carry out reconstruction works on the stadium. Speaking to journalists at the…
The Electoral Commission (EC) has established a Query/Complaints Desk at the EC Headquarters to support the exercise of nomination of candidates for Local Government Councils Elections, which will start on Monday 21st September til 1st October 2020. According to the EC Spokesperson Paul Bukenya, the Query/Complaints’ Desk will provide any required information to the public…
Police at Kira Road on Thursday carried out an operation in the area of Bukoto and arrested over 30 teenagers, who were having a party in a friend’s house. According to Luke Owoyesigyire the Kampala Metropolitan Police deputy spokesperson, the arrests came as a result of the public complaining about a group of teens over…
The Democratic Party (DP) delegates are convening today, the 18th of September 2020 for a three days National Delegates conference. The conference will be held at Sir Samuel Baker School in Gulu District. According to Fred Mwesigwa the party presidential press secretary, the delegates conference will elect the party president, regional vice presidents among other…
Private school proprietors in Uganda have expressed worry that a big number of children in the country is likely to drop out of school due to prolonged lock down on educational institutions. According to Joseph Kiggundu the chairman of the National COVID-19 committee of Private Educational Institutions, many children have been married off, others have become young…
The Electoral Commission (EC) Chairperson Justice Simon Byabakama has said that the responsibility to have violent free elections lies in the hands of all Ugandans and not just the commission. His comment comes amidst concerns that the violance episodes that were witnessed in the recently concluded National Resistance Movement (NRM) party primaries could repulicate themselves…
One person has died and two others injured in a fatal accident that happened this morning at Namboole Fly over in Bweyogerere. It is alleged that an Engineering plant (concrete mixer ) UBG 217x lost control and overturned. Two occupants allegedly ran away with minor injuries and left a colleague who happens to be the…
Agnes Namaganda one of the aspiring candidates for the woman Member of Parliament for Kampala on the National Unity Platform (NUP) has revealed that she is living in fear after receiving death threats from her husband for joining the opposition party. Namaganda says her husband Dick Twinomujuni who is a National Resistance Movement (NRM) supporter and…
