Muhanga says government will starting vaccinating children The State Minister for Health, Hon. Margaret Muhanga has revealed that government plans vaccinate children against malaria. Muhanga made the revelation during a plenary sitting on Tuesday, 16 August 2022 chaired by Deputy Speaker Thomas Tayebwa. “If we do not vaccinate our
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Persis Namuganza, the State Minister for Urban Planning High Court in Kampala has dismissed an application filed by the State Minister for Urban Planning, Persis Namuganza seeking to quash the report of the Parliamentary Ad-hoc Committee on the Naguru Nakawa land misallocation that recommended her removal from office. The records before
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Deputy Speaker, Thomas Tayebwa Parliament’s Education Committee has been given two weeks to probe plans by school owners to increase fees on account of rising commodity prices. Deputy Speaker Thomas Tayebwa gave the directive after some lawmakers protested the move in government aided schools altering their fees structures. “This is
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Government has shut down the 183MW Isimba Hydropower Plant in Kayunga District for three weeks. In a notice to the general public Tuesday, Ruth Nankabirwa, the Minister of Energy and Mineral Development revealed that Plant was shut down on August 8th 2022 following operational challenges that led to the flow
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Several students in Muteesa I Royal University can no longer have lessons in their convenient localities following the closure of the university’s auxiliary study centres. The University management indefinitely closed the study centres in Bugerere, Kayunga district and Buwekula in Mubende district, which had been established with an intention
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The Ministry of Information, Communication Technology (ICT) and National Guidance has asked MPs to halt consideration of the Computer Misuse (Amendment) Bill, 2022. The bill, tabled before Parliament by Kampala Central MP Mohammed Nsereko (pictured), seeks to amend Section 12 of the Computer Misuse Act to criminalize hacking of another
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Raila has rejected presidential results ODM leader Raila Odinga has rejected Wafula Chebukati’s declaration of DP William Ruto as president-elect saying his coalition is pursuing all available constitutional options. Speaking for the first time since the IEBC chair declared the presidential results on Monday, the Azimio la Umoja One Kenya
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Prof Joe Oloka-Onyango/Photo by Dominic Ochola Makerere University Law Don, Prof Joe Oloka-Onyango has tipped Parliament to consider amending Articles 107 and 118 in the anticipated Constitution Amendment Bill to help check the excessive powers of the President. Both Articles provide for the removal of the President on grounds
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Kenya’s President-elect, William Ruto A section of legislators have asked Deputy Speaker Thomas Tayebwa to avail them time on the order paper to debate lessons Uganda can learn from the recently concluded general elections in Kenya. The request was made by Stephen Baka (Bukooli Central) who asked if the
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Makerere University Vice Chancellor, Professor Barnabas Nawangwe The High Court in Kampala has issued an interim injunction restraining Makerere University from evicting hundreds of people who operate different businesses within the institution. According Civil Division Judge Boniface Wamala, his order will be in force pending the determination of
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