The Inspector General of Police, Gen. Kale Kayihura is currently appearing before the Parliamentary Committee on Statutory Authorities and States Enterprises (COSASE) Committee to answer quarries surrounding the security of Centenary Park. The issue to summon the Police boss was reached at yesterday after the Committer learnt that Godfrey Nyakana,
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The National Planning Authority (NPA) Executive Director, Dr. Joseph Muvawala has commended the International University of East Africa (IUEA) for its innovation and invention. Muvawala, who is also the Busoga Kingdom Prime Minister made the remarks during his official visit to the university on Wednesday. Led by the acting Vice-Chancellor
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Ejaculation may also help to reduce prostate inflammation, which is a known cause of the cancer. Ejaculating at least 21 times a month significantly reduces a man's risk of prostate cancer, new research reveals. This is compared to those who release just four-to-seven times every four weeks, a Harvard University
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African heads of state have endorsed two major new initiatives to help end AIDS by 2030. The community health workers initiative aims to recruit, train and deploy 2 million community health workers across Africa by 2020. The western and central Africa catch-up plan aims to rapidly accelerate access to HIV
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A senior official in the Ministry of Energy has defended the Entebbe-based Africa Gold Refinery (AGR) over suspicion that it refines illicit gold from Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and South Sudan. The Belgian-Owned African Gold Refinery has been refining gold in Uganda since February when President Museveni launched it
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Uchumi Supermarkets has signed a return-to-work formula with its workers following a strike over non-payment of the May and June salaries, which paralyzed the retail chain’s operations. The deal signed yesterday between the supermarket and the Kenya Union of Commercial, Food and Allied Workers (Kucfaw) requires Uchumi, which has about
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A report into sex for marks and sexual harassment scandal at Makerere University has implicated a lecturer for unprofessional conduct. Six of the eight female students interviewed by the Committee that investigated the scandal implicate Brian Musaga, a former Assistant Lecturer in the College of Business and Management Studies- CoBAMS
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By Godfrey Kenneth Gobba Placing All Your Bets On Social Security “I don’t need to worry about retirement because I have social security and my company payout is a mouth watering figure,” some people say. But do you personally know someone or have heard of someone who retired, received their
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Uganda and India top the list of the fastest growing economies to 2025, at 7.7 percent annually, a latest research released by the Center for International Development at Harvard University (CID) has said. According to the report released on June 28, 2017, Uganda joins three other East African countries in
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Tanzanian authorities have ordered the arrest of an opposition lawmaker for insulting President John Magufuli. Police should detain Halima Mdee - a lawmaker from the main opposition Chadema party in the commercial capital, Dar es Salaam - for 48 hours, pending criminal charges, the commissioner of the city's Kinondoni district,
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