Uganda’s Health Ministry has confirmed reports of a strange disease that recently struck Mityana, leaving six babies dead. Sarah Opendi, the State Minister of Health General Duties revealed that the deaths were mainly due to fetal distress resulting from delayed labour. She made the remarks today on the floor of
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The Ministry of Education and Sports has been asked to consider increasing the number of students benefiting from University loan scheme after it emerged that over 5,000 applicants missed out. It should be noted that that last week, the Ministry of Education in conjunction with the Higher Education Students' Financing
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A lot has been written in the print media about how Uganda’s oil tax regime is delaying our prospect of joining the club of oil producing countries. During the Uganda-Tanzania business forum in Dar es salam last week, Tanzania President John Pombe Magufuli is reported to have asked president Yoweri
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Victoria University, one of the young private-owned fast growing Universities in Uganda has revealed plans to expand after acquiring another piece of land where they intend to construct a new campus. This was revealed by Rajiv Ruparelia, the University Promoter and Director during the University’s 4th graduation ceremony at Munyonyo
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Members of Parliament on the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) have expressed concerns about the fraud in the Uganda Cancer Institute (UCI), describing the practice as another form of cancer eating up patients visiting the facility. The MPs raised the concerns today while meeting officials from UCI that had been summoned
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Makerere University through the Academic Registrar has invited applications from Ugandan, East African, S. Sudan and International applicants for the Bachelor of Chinese and Asian Studies under the private sponsorship scheme for the 2019/2020 academic year. Alfred Masikye Namoah, the Academic Registrar says the duration of the programme is 3
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The world could be free of malaria - one of the oldest and deadliest diseases to affect humanity - within a generation, a major report says. Each year there are still more than 200 million cases of the disease, which mostly kills young children. The report says eradicating malaria is
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By AFP Facebook has rolled out its online dating service for the United States, a move taking on rivals such as smartphone app Tinder. The free "Facebook Dating" site which was announced last year and already available in other countries will allow users to link their Facebook and Instagram
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At least 50 students from the faculties of Health Science, Humanities & Social Sciences, Business & Management as well as Science & Technology on Friday graduated from Victoria University during a ceremony held at Speke Resort Munyonyo. The 4th graduation ceremony was held under the theme ‘Developing Agents of Change.’
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Work on a pipeline that would transport crude oil 1,445 km (898 miles) from Uganda to Tanzania's coast has been suspended. Tullow Oil had planned to sell a stake in the $3.5bn (£2.8bn) project to state-owned Chinese firm CNOOC and French oil giant Total, but the deal collapsed last week
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