Fresh details have emerged on how shrewd Kampala businessmen connived with officials at Uganda Airlines to smuggle alcohol into Mogadishu, Somalia. It should be noted that in May 2021, the top managers of Uganda Airlines including the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Cornwell Muleya and other seniors managers were sent on
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Towards the end of last year, in an effort to make Covid-19 tests more readily available, the health Ministry allowed private laboratories to carry out tests for the virus. The permission has seen a wave of shoddy and even outright fraudulent tests and test kits hit the market. As the
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Huawei plans to invest US$150 million in digital talent development over the next five years. This program is expected to benefit another 3 million youth."Today we are announcing Huawei's Seeds for the Future Program 2.0. As part of our commitment to continuously developing talent, we will invest US$150 million in
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,453 health workers out of the 5,413 in the Acholi Sub Region have shunned the vaccination against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). The health workers are operating in various health facilities in the eight districts of Acholi and Gulu City which are treating the COVID-19 pandemic. According to statistics from the
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The teachers covid-19 relief fund for private schools promised by President Museveni has been sent back to the Micro Finance Support Centre. Last year, the government announced a revolving fund worth Shillings 20billion to support private teachers whose livelihoods were disrupted by the nationwide lockdown in March last year as
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More than 60,000 candidates in Universal Primary Education (UPE) schools failed the 2020 Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE). The results released on Friday indicate that a total of 74,878 candidates totally failed the examination and therefore were not graded. This represents 10.2 percent of the total number of candidates who sat
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Vaccination is the silver bullet to ending lockdown. Countries like UK are opening up because of high vaccination rates. With the outcry about high treatment charges for COVID-19 patients at private health facilities, some doctors there say only vaccination will end the crisis. They say whoever is refusing to be
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The Chief Magistrate Gladys Kamasanyu The Chief Magistrate of Utilities and Wildlife Court at Buganda Road, Gladys Kamasanyu was on Saturday attacked by unknown people. According to the Kampala Metropolitan Area Acting Police Spokesperson Luke Owoyesigyire, Kamasanyu was attacked outside Green Hill Academy in Namuwongo at 11:am. "She parked her car and
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Two Ugandan truck drivers have been shot dead and one injured in South Sudan. The incident occurred on Thursday in Nesitu, Jubek County in the Central Equatorial State about 120 kilometres to Nimule border along the Juba-Nimule Highway. Preliminary police reports indicate that two unknown gunmen dressed in South Sudan
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The Ministry of Education is still uncertain when schools will reopen. Last month, President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni announced fresh restrictions as part of measures to control the COVID-19 transmissions in the country in face of the second wave of the pandemic. Among the restrictions, the President directed the closure of
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