Masaka hospital overwhelmed as 160 preterm births recorded monthly
Masaka Regional Referral Hospital registers at least 160 cases of premature births every month, a figure that is overwhelming its neonatal unit despite support from gover...
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Court Grants Lawyer Male Mabirizi Mandatory Bail
Kampala — Buganda Road Chief Magistrates Court has granted city lawyer Hassan Male Mabirizi mandatory bail after he spent 60 days on remand without his trial commencing...
SCANDALOUS AND WASTEFUL: Equal Opportunities Commission Abandons Bugolobi Office, Opting For Shs2.5bn Annual Rent At Sudhir’s Kingdom Kampala
KAMPALA, Uganda — Parliament’s Gender Committee has questioned the Equal Opportunities Commission’s decision to spend Shs2.5 billion annually on office space at Kin...
Kitgum Pays Shs1.72 Billion to 344 Cattle Restocking Beneficiaries
Kitgum District has paid Shs1.72 billion to 344 beneficiaries under the government cattle restocking programme, with each beneficiary receiving Shs5 million to purchase l...
Hoima older persons decry exclusion from government wealth creation programmes
Hoima older persons decry exclusion from government wealth creation programmesThe elderly say extension workers rarely sensitise them about government programmes or expla...
UPDATE!! US Government Sends Special Envoy To Luzira Prison To Check On American Citizen Okello Onyum Facing Death Sentence Over Murder Of 4 School Children
Reports indicate that the United States government has sent a special envoy to Luzira Prison to check on its citizen Okello Onyum, who is currently serving a sentence aft...
Imprisoning medical interns is not how we protect the gains of Uganda’s healthcare
The protestors in the dockCelebrated Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, in her 2009 TED Talk, The Danger of a Single Story, powerfully illuminated why the diversit...
Why Only Big People? Tayebwa Orders Physical Verification of Tax Waiver Applicants to End Corruption Suspicions
Deputy Speaker, Thomas TayebwaThomas Tayebwa, the Deputy Speaker of Uganda’s ParliamentThe Deputy Speaker, Thomas Tayebwa has asked Parliament’s Finance Committee to...
Mulago Neurosurgical Camp Treats 41 Patients in Six Days
The free two-week camp is targeting 100 beneficiaries and is prioritising patients who have endured prolonged waits for specialised brain, spine and nerve surgery.Forty-o...
MPs demand tighter controls on tax waivers
Members of Parliament call for greater transparency and accountability in granting of tax waivers.The legislators also wondered whether the current criteria is not abused...