Women leaders in Uganda have shown concern over an increase in maternal deaths. They say as the country celebrates 50 years of independence, more mothers are dying due to poor reproductive health facilities. The concern was raised by the speaker of the East African Legislative Assembly Margret Zziwa during the opening of the National Women’s’ […]
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Premio Daniel Carasso Prize: The Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation is currently inviting entries for Premio Daniel Carasso Prize, an international award offered to a researcher with outstanding basic or applied research work on the topic “sustainable food and diets for long term human health”. This prize was started in memory of Daniel Carasso who […]
The President General of Uganda Federal Alliance, Betty Namisango Kamya has met with the officials of Electoral Commission inKampalatoday to agree on the roadmap towards the preparation of the referendum to change the system of governance from unitary to federalism in 2015. The electoral commission decided to meet Betty Kamya today five days back. The […]
Makerere University councilor to KCCA, Bernard Luyiga who had been rumoured to have crossed to NRM after the Lord Mayor of Kampala, Erias Lukwago declined to appoint him deputy mayor recently has described the allegations against him as baseless. Lukwago recently named Sulaiman Kidandala as the deputy mayor of Kampala declining to name Luyiga […]
Members of Parliament on the public accounts committee of parliament have expressed concern that the picfare industries limited went ahead to supply 300,000 T-shirts worth 1.3 billion shillings to the Burundian government as part of scholastic materials. The government of Burundi authorized Uganda to pay the monies owed to Burundi to Picfare industries in turn […]
As Uganda prepares for oil production, National environment management authority is in the process of developing an oil spill contingency plan which will help in controlling of oil spills that might come up as production begins. This was revealed by NEMA environment inspector Isaac Ntujju while addressing journalists in Kampala. Ntujju said that oil spills […]
The government has expressed concern over the high number of patients’ with diabetes in Uganda. The ministry of health has says many hospitals are reporting increased cases of diabetes in different parts of the country. The ministry’s program manager in charge of non-communicable diseases Dr. James Sekajugo says the cases of diabetes have increased by […]
Members of Parliament have demand an explanation from Government over the Inspector General of Government (IGG)’s action of withdrawing charges against personalities without clear reasons. Parliament’s concern follow the recent sudden withdraw by the office of the IGG last Friday the case in which Prof. Gilbert Bukenya was accused of abuse of office over the […]