Ultimate Media The Uganda Bureau of Statistics has said today in Kampala that the country’s headline inflation rate decreased to 7.5 % in March 2010 from 8.1% in February 2010 due fall in food prices. The latest report by the Uganda Bureau of Statistics indicates that in the month of March, the food […]
Ultimate Media Unidentified criminals have killed a man in Kabonera, Rakai district. Frank Kasozi was killed on his way back home from Kabonera market where he was coming to buy bananas. The area residents claim Kasozi was murdered over land wrangles. The body of Kasozi was discovered along the road by pupils going to […]
By Walakira Nyanzi, Ultimate Media The President General of the opposition Democratic Party (DP), Norbert Mao has declared that the days of ruling Uganda with guns are over. “I saw President Museveni in Bududa recently carrying a karishinikov 47, may be he was thinking that landslides were rebels,” Mao, who is also the LCV […]
By Walakira Nyanzi, Ultimate Media Abelrahim El-Siddig, the Deputy Head of Mission of the Sudan Embassy in Kampala has assured Ugandans that Khartoum is a partner in the fight against LRA rebels. He says his government (Sudan) has been assisting Uganda Peoples Defence Forces in the fight against LRA rebels headed by Joseph Kony […]
Ultimate Media The National Medical Stores in conjunction with the Ministry of Health are investigating reports that there are non existing health centres that are receiving government drugs. There are over 3,000 government health centres that receive public drugs from National Medical Stores. The General Manager of National Medical Stores, Moses Kamabare says non […]
Ultimate Media Makerere University students’ leaders will demonstrate on Thursday this week to show their dissatisfaction with the way the new Vice Chancellor of Makerere University; Prof. Venansiuos Baryamureba has conducted guild elections. This follows the resignation of the guild legal advisor, John Kabumba from the tribunal that was set up to solve the […]
Ultimate Media The Executive Director of Mulago National Referral Hospital, Dr. Edward Ddumba has explained the cause of cleaners strike going on at the hospital. Ddumba says there have been delays in payment of cleaners because they have to rely on the quarterly releases from the ministry of finance. The Director however says the […]
Ultimate Media Mulago hospital administration is using volunteers to clean the hospital after the hospital cleaners went on strike citing non-payment of their wages and salaries on monday. The Public Relations Officer of Mulago Hospital, Eliphaz Sekabira says over 80 volunteers have been drawn from the universities of Kyambogo, Makerere and Makerere University Business […]
Ultimate Media All the government hospitals and health centers in Uganda have been directed to publish monthly lists of essential drugs they needed in a move meant to avoid drug stock outs. The hospitals and other health facilities will be required to send their lists to the National medical stores every 30 days to […]
Ultimate Media The Democratic Party (DP) is petitioning the constitutional court challenging Makerere University’s decision to kick political parties out of the guild elections. The University Electoral Commission last week passed a resolution that no politicians and students affiliated to opposition political parties will be allowed to campaign for their representatives in the guild […]