NEWS

By Joan Akello Uganda Heart Institute (UHI) is in the process of commissioning its medical compressed air plant and a vacuum extraction pump. This comes at the time Mulago National Referral is building an oxygen plant. Dr. Omagino. O.O John, UHI Director, signed a 2.4 Million Shillings cheque instructing British …

By Julius Odeke High Court judge Vincent Zehurikirize on Thursday nullified the Luweero district Woman Member of Parliament Brenda Nabukenya’s Parliamentary seat over massive election rigging and bribery. The judge ordered for fresh elections to be conducted in Luwero district whereby voters shall elect the district woman representative. The case …

By Julius Odeke The minister for the East African Community, Eriya Kategaya says the purpose as to why there is East African Community week is to provide us with an opportunity to reflect on the commitments we made in the EAC Treaty and to assess the progress made in translating …

By Sarah Namulondo The US Mission has launched the Ugandan Chapter of generation change at Hotel Africana with 20 youths already participating in it. The US Ambassador Scott H. DeLisi at the launch said that the project launch will be followed by a two-days training on collaboration, networking, presentation skills, …

By Ronald Musoke The World Bank director of human development for the Africa region, Ritva Reinikka, has stressed the importance of Uganda and her peers in Africa to put an equal emphasis on human capital development just like they have been doing with infrastructure if they are to transition to …

By Joan Akello Performance of the agriculture sector has improved from 0.9 percent in 2010/11 to 3 percent in 2011/12. The increase is attributed to the performance of all sub sectors. However, Minister Of  Agriculture , Animal Industry And Fisheries , Tress Bucyanayandi   said, “ we have  not achieved  the …

By Sarah Namulondo Movember a global movement to create awareness on prostate cancer will today launch the free prostate cancer testing at Victoria University starting on Wednesday. Movember Uganda 2012 is focusing on “Early Presentation for Prostate Cancer Screening” with major focus on Men over 40 years who are more …

By Joan Akello David Mugawe, Executive Director of the African Child Policy Forum (ACPF), will this week receive an award from the International Juvenile Justice Observatory (IJJO) in recognition of his efforts to promote and protect the rights of African children within the justice system. ACPF has made significant contributions …

By Joan Akello About 560,000 pupils will sit this year for their Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE). They started with Mathematics this morning and social studies and religious education in the afternoon. Tomorrow, they will have science and end with English in the afternoon. The National Examinations Board (UNEB) released tight …

By Julius Odeke The Public Relations Officer for Electoral Commission, Charles Ochola says his office is ready to organize for any by-elections provided the clerk to parliament writes to Electoral Commission informing them of any vacant seat in parliament. Ochola told Independent on a telephone interview that, “We have just …