Africa

Total alerts public of fake jobs adverts in relation to Tanzania-Uganda oil pipeline project

Total alerts public of fake jobs adverts in relation to Tanzania-Uganda oil pipeline project

Total East Africa Midstream has warned the general public to be cautious while accepting jobs advertised in relation to the Tanzania-Uganda crude oil pipeline project, saying most are fakes. Total has learnt that various companies have started assuring people that they can help them secure jobs from the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) project. Unknown […]

New crocodile species found hiding in plain sight

It’s rare to find a new crocodile species. For the first time in more than 80 years, researchers have fully described and named a new species—the Central African slender-snouted crocodile which is found in a broad swathe of the continent from Cameroon to Tanzania. This species has been dubbed Mecistops leptorhynchus, and characterized in a study published on October […]

Kenyan student suspected murderer, governor Okoth Obado granted bail

Governor Okoth Obado, a prime suspect in the Rongo University student, Sharon Otieno murder, has been granted bail of  Kenyan Shillings 5 million cash. The governor was also the boyfriend to the deceased and the baby daddy to Sharon’s seven months pregnancy. The county chief is also expected to pay two sureties of a similar […]

East and Central Africa first female graduate dies

East and Central Africa first female graduate dies

Dr Sarah Nyendwoha Ntiro, the first woman to graduate at university level in East and Central Africa has died. Dr Nyendwoha graduated from Oxford University with a BA (Hon) in History in 1954. She has been battling several illnesses since the beginning of this year and died on Monday while being taken to Mengo hospital. […]

Cameroon’s Biya wins seventh presidential term in mudslide victory

Cameroon’s Biya wins seventh presidential term in mudslide victory

Prof Maurice Kamto, Cameroon opposition leader only received 14.2 percent of the total vote: COURTESY PHOTO Paul Biya, Cameroon’s president since 1982 has won the 2018 presidential seat to rule the country for a seventh. The Constitutional Council announced that Biya attained a mudslide victory with 71.3% of the total vote cast on October 7. According […]

Makerere students’ Wulira App to prevent hearing loss

Makerere university students developed the Wulira app to help people having hearing problems and also aid in preventing hearing loss. Wulira is an android mobile application that is used to assess hearing loss in at-risk patients and provide immediate reporting on results. The app is programmed to transmit a specific sound to test subjects and […]

Bobi Wine calls Kanye West-Museveni meeting immoral

Kyandondo East Mp and Uganda’s leading opposition legislator, Robert Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine has called Kanye West meeting with president Yoweri Museveni immoral. On Monday,president Museveni posted photos of him exchanging gifts with the US rapper and wife Kim Kardashian at state house. Bobi Wine said it was immoral of West to  “just to rub shoulders […]

“Police refused to stamp on the request letter” Bobi Wine speaks out on kyarenga concert

Kyadondo East Member of Parliament Robert Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine has accused Uganda police of distorting his ‘Kyarenga’ concert earlier scheduled for October 20, 2018. The legislator claims that the police refused to stamp on the concert request letter that Bobi Wine’s team had taken to get the police’s consent. Read Bobi Wine Statement below   […]

Kanye West, Kim Kardashian hosted by Museveni ahead of Uganda video shoot

Kanye West, Kim Kardashian hosted by Museveni ahead of Uganda video shoot

Kanye West and wife Kim Kardashian have been hosted today at the Uganda state House in Entebbe by his excellency president Yoweri Museveni. President Museveni has posted pictures of him and the West family on his official facebook and a gratitude note welcoming the American rapper for coming to the pearl of Africa. “I welcome […]

Bobi Wine reveals he has no problem with being friends with president Museveni

Kyadondo East Member of Parliament, Hon.  Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu alias Bobi Wine has revealed that he can actually be friends with President Yoweri Museveni if he upholds the will of Ugandans. Bobi Wine said this during his interview with Jeff Koinange and Babu Owino on Citizen Television in Kenya on Wednesday night. “Do you see […]