While thousands of mourners, including Tanzanian leader Jakaya Kikwete, joined President Museveni on Monday to bid farewell to his father, Mzee Amos Kaguta, who passed away on Friday last week, the former president of Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), Col. Kiiza Besigye and the current FDC president, Maj. Gen. Mugisha Muntu did not bother to go for the burial or to send their condolences.  Museveni’s political friends like president Paul Kagame of Rwanda and Salva Kiir of South Sudan at least sent him condolence messages.

Most of the mourners kept on watching all the corners to see whether Museveni’s former allies Maj. Gen. Mugisha Muntu and Col. Kiiza Besigye would keep their political differences aside and join Museveni while he mourns his father. Late Kaguta was buried at President Museveni’s ancestral home in Rwakituura, Kiruhura District.

Besigye says that he did not attend the burial of Museveni’s father because no one informed him about his death. Statehouse sources when contacted confirmed that they forgot to inform the leaders of political parties about the death of Kaguta. Also, the news coming from Muntu’s camp indicates that he too was not officially informed about Kaguta’s death. However, another source in FDC told Walakira Nyanzi of the Ultimate Media Consult that he would have attended the burial but he feared to go there because people would have thought that Museveni and Muntu are the same. Muntu is a former friend of Museveni who turned foe.

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 This was during a special session held in his honor this afternoon at parliament.

The body of the late earlier laid in state at parliament where various mps and government officials paid their last respect.

Speaking to journalists, the late’s second son Ogwang Joshua said their father was a true nationalist who loved the country and lobbied for the improvement of the farmers welfare.

Ogwanga describes the late as a calm peace loving and caring father.

The late has survived by a wife and 8 children.

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The incident happened in Matete Sembabule district yesterday.

Ssenabulya says his father poured petrol in the house and ordered him to enter before setting it on fire inflicting serious burns on his face.

He adds that his father identified as Eddie Kintu later committed suicide by taking poison.

It is not clear what drove Kintu to act in such a strange manner though according to Ssenabulya his father could have been under the influence of drugs.

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Yesterday the A4C leader, Col. Dr. Kiiza Besigye went to pray for retired Bp John Wilson Kahigwa of North Kigezi at All Saints Church .

The deceased man of God did not get President Museveni’s Pajero because he was critical of the NRM regime.

Bishop Zac Ndiringiye told the mourners that we have equalizers in life which are death and going to toilet.

The Bishop continued that dictators have bitter death. He advised Hon Jim Muhwezi to repent. Hon Jim Muhwezi told mourners as his late father a clergy would give them prayer instead of pocket money.

The minister present Mbagutta had earlier advised mourners to always go for checks of cancers. Col. Besigye replied that in this state of the cancer Institute if one is diagnosed of the disease, what happens after?

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The George Frank Student Travel Grant, established in 2009, is sponsored by Dr. Christopher Frank, President of the Canadian Geriatrics Society in memory of his father, Dr. George frank, who taught at the University of Nairobi medical school in the 1960s.

The grant, valued at CAD 2,000 (two thousand Canadian Dollars) provides funding to support one student to present their research in the area of ageing and health at the 20th World Congress of Gerontology and Geriatrics, to be held in 2013 in Seoul, South Korea.

Student Travel Grant Eligibility

The applicant must:

• Be based at an institution in Africa and enrolled in a Masters, Doctoral or post-doctoral programme in the field of ageing at the time of application
• Have submitted an abstract to the 20th World Congress of gerontology and geriatrics as the first or senior author on the paper. Before taking up the award, the applicant must provide confirmation from the that the abstract has been accepted for presentation by the Congress organizers.
• Be able to demonstrate his/her academic excellence in terms of academic background, publications, presentations and awards

There are no restrictions on departments or disciplines of study. However the student must demonstrate that his field of study is focused on the area of ageing and health

Student Travel Grant Application Procedure

To apply the student must submit the following:

1. A completed application form (link to form)

2. A duly signed letter of recommendation from the chair or department head of his/her graduate programme. The letter should include:

• The name of the student.
• How well the student is doing in her/his program
• How the student ranks compared to others at the same program stage.
• The importance of the thesis/dissertation topic
• The potential of the student to contribute to scholarly research in her/his home country.

The letter should be sent separately by the author of the letter to jacobus.hoffman@ageing.ox.ac.uk

3. A copy of the abstract submitted to the 20th World Congress of Gerontology and Geriatrics

4. A copy of the notification that the abstract (or at least one of the abstracts, if more than one were submitted) has been accepted by the Congress. (This can be sent at a later date if it is not available at the time of this application)

Acceptance of the award implies in an agreement to write, within one month from the end of the Congress, a report about the student’s experience at the Congress, its highlights and how attendance has benefited him/her on academic/professional levels. Reports may be posted on the IAGG website.

For more information and application, visit: George Frank Student Travel Grant

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The Norman E. Borlaug International Agricultural Science and Technology Fellows Program helps developing countries strengthen sustainable agricultural practices by providing short-term scientific training and collaborative research opportunities to visiting researchers, policymakers and university faculty while they work with a mentor.

The program targets developing countries and matches participants with experts in their field at land-grant universities and 1890’s colleges, government agencies, international research centers and other nonprofit institutions and private companies.

The Borlaug Fellowship Program was launched in March 2004 in honor of Dr. Norman E. Borlaug, who has been hailed as the father of the Green Revolution.

In 2007, Dr. Borlaug received the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest civilian award, for his lifetime contributions to improving international agriculture and global food security.

Dr. Borlaug won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for his success in developing high-yielding wheat varieties and reversing severe food shortages that haunted India and Pakistan in the 1960’s.

Credited with saving millions of lives, his work virtually eliminated recurring famines in South Asia and helped global food production outpace population growth.

The program is administered by USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service in cooperation with the U.S. Agency for International Development, the U.S. Department of State, and the U.S. Trade and Development Agency.

For more information and application visit: Agricultural Science and Technology Fellows Program

The Norman E. Borlaug International Agricultural Science and Technology Fellows Program helps developing countries strengthen sustainable agricultural practices by providing short-term scientific training and collaborative research opportunities to visiting researchers, policymakers and university faculty while they work with a mentor.

The program targets developing countries and matches participants with experts in their field at land-grant universities and 1890’s colleges, government agencies, international research centers and other nonprofit institutions and private companies.

The Borlaug Fellowship Program was launched in March 2004 in honor of Dr. Norman E. Borlaug, who has been hailed as the father of the Green Revolution.

In 2007, Dr. Borlaug received the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest civilian award, for his lifetime contributions to improving international agriculture and global food security.

Dr. Borlaug won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for his success in developing high-yielding wheat varieties and reversing severe food shortages that haunted India and Pakistan in the 1960’s.

Credited with saving millions of lives, his work virtually eliminated recurring famines in South Asia and helped global food production outpace population growth.

The program is administered by USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service in cooperation with the U.S. Agency for International Development, the U.S. Department of State, and the U.S. Trade and Development Agency.

For more information and application visit: Agricultural Science and Technology Fellows Program

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The Norman E. Borlaug International Agricultural Science and Technology Fellows Program helps developing countries strengthen sustainable agricultural practices by providing short-term scientific training and collaborative research opportunities to visiting researchers, policymakers and university faculty while they work with a mentor.

The program targets developing countries and matches participants with experts in their field at land-grant universities and 1890’s colleges, government agencies, international research centers and other nonprofit institutions and private companies.

The Borlaug Fellowship Program was launched in March 2004 in honor of Dr. Norman E. Borlaug, who has been hailed as the father of the Green Revolution.

In 2007, Dr. Borlaug received the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest civilian award, for his lifetime contributions to improving international agriculture and global food security.

Dr. Borlaug won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for his success in developing high-yielding wheat varieties and reversing severe food shortages that haunted India and Pakistan in the 1960’s.

Credited with saving millions of lives, his work virtually eliminated recurring famines in South Asia and helped global food production outpace population growth.

The program is administered by USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service in cooperation with the U.S. Agency for International Development, the U.S. Department of State, and the U.S. Trade and Development Agency.

For more information and application visit: Agricultural Science and Technology Fellows Program

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Mao says that the queen advised Museveni to surround himself with intelligent people. Museveni reportedly informed the Queen that he has surrounded himself with professors, doctors among other intelligent persons and scholars.

The queen reportedly called her prime minister and asked him to answer the following riddle.

”Your mother and father have a child. It is not your brother and it is not your sister. Who is it?” the prime minister answered that that child is ‘me.’

Museveni reportedly returned to Uganda and asked the following question to his cabinet ministers but none of them laboured to answer the question. Mao alleges that Museveni reportedly went ahead to ask the same question to all his friends in NRM. The DP President says that if Museveni had asked the same question to DP members, none would fail to rightly answer him. So Mao asked Museveni to sack all his ministers, quit politics and let DP takeover power, causing laughter among DP members.

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The message that Uganda People’s Congress (UPC) party president Dr. Olara Otunnu had packaged well yesterday that he has two daughters has been rubbished by his own party members. One of the UPC officials, David Pulkol says that he knows Otunnu well; the man does not have daughters/ a family.

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The head of surgeon at Mulago hospital Dr. Michael Muhumuza said that Pamela Asiimwe will recover despite of sustaining serious injuries and the permanent disabilities will be determined after six months.

Pamela Asiimwe is now in 3A ward in Mulago hospital bed 9 and she is still in pain.

Asiimwe’s hands were cut in front of their father Ephraim Byakwaga, on December 9th after her husband had threatened to kill her several times if at any time he finds her talking to any one at work place.

Deus Twinamasiko thought that he had killed Asiimwe and he ran to the Police to report himself where was detained.

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