Uganda’s National Drug Authority (NDA) has announced winners of the 2017 school essay competition. The Award Winners Ceremony was held on Tuesday in Kampala and was officiated by Dr. Sheila Ndyanabangi, Principle Medical Officer, Mental Health Division, Ministry of Health. The competition is aimed at promoting and inculcating a culture
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Scientists at Makerere University say crude waragi distilled in almost every part of the country could serve as a cheaper, sustainable clean cooking energy if home brewers were given better technologies of producing it. The Centre for Research in Energy and Energy Conservation (CREEC), located in the College of Engineering,
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Apple has revealed a high-end smartphone with an "edge-to-edge" screen that has no physical home button. The iPhone X - which is referred to as "ten" - uses a facial recognition system to recognise its owner rather than a fingerprint-based one. Apple said FaceID can work in the dark by
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Uganda should fairly compensate landowners affected by a pipeline that will transport oil to an Indian Ocean port after accusations that some people reimbursed for earlier public projects were left worse-off, Oxfam International said. The London-based charity said it’s concerned that “community participation, livelihoods and land rights could be overlooked in a
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Uganda's Leader of Opposition in Parliament (LoP), Winnie Kiiza has urged Ugandans to reject the motion passed by the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) legislators seeking to remove the constitutional age caps. Winnie made this call in a Facebook post a day after legislators and Ministers passed a motion to
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Family business-focused lender M Oriental Bank has revealed that it has stopped doing business with debt-ridden retailer Nakumatt. Responding to a story carried by The Standard last month in which the retailer’s debt position was reported to have jumped from KSh18 billion to about KSh30 billion, M Oriental Bank said
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At a gathering of senior policymakers and developments experts hosted by UK’s leading foreign policy institute recently, the Chairman of Heirs Holdings and one of Africa’s richest men, Tony Elumelu, spoke on a panel alongside United Kingdom Minister of State, Department for International Development (DFID), Rory Stewart, OBE, where he
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Tuesday September12, 2017 will no doubt remain in the history of Uganda. The day was characteristically an unusual one at Parliament as ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) MPs were seen in the corridors of Parliament smiling from ear to ear life the proverbial dog. Little did Ugandans know that the
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Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga, whose petition to re-run the August presidential election over voting irregularities has been upheld by the Supreme Court, is addressing crowds in the opposition stronghold of Kibera in Nairobi. The timing of the rally is deliberate, taking place at the same time as President Uhuru
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MPs from Uganda's ruling NRM party have agreed to table a private member's bill in parliament, proposing the removal of the presidential age limit, reports BBC. If successful the bill would make President Yoweri Museveni, who is believed to be 73 years old, eligible to stand again in the next
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