Tag Archives: Ntungamo

Ntungamo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A student has burnt to death and three others escaped with burns following a fire outbreak at Kyamate Secondary School in Ntungamo district. The deceased has been identified as Bonus Ankwatireire, a senior one student from Isingiro district. The head teacher, Emmanuel Arinaitwe, says that …

Ntungamo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Ntungamo district has registered an upsurge in malaria cases. Records show that malaria cases in the district increased to 78,574 in 2022 up from 47,088 in 2021 and 44,971 cases in 2020. According to the breakdown, malaria cases in pregnant women increased to 736 in 2022 …

Ntungamo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Hundreds of mourners on Friday were treated to a dramatic scene at the burial service of Yonasani Kanyomozi, the former Minister of Cooperatives and Marketing in the Obote II government, when a helicopter landed nearby. The 5X-MAH blue-white ribbon police helicopter that had delivered …

Ntungamo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ntungamo district leaders have eulogized the late Yonasani Bankobeza Kanyomozi describing him as a committed politician and a pillar of Ntungamo’s development. Kanyomozi, a former Cooperatives Minister in the Apollo Milton Obote II regime died on Sunday afternoon at Nakasero hospital in Kampala. Naome …

Ntungamo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Ntungamo district has partially lifted the Foot and Mouth disease quarantine in Kajara and Ruhaama counties almost six months after it was announced to contain the outbreak. The government imposed total livestock quarantine on the sub counties of Rubaare and Ngoma in February following the …

Ntungamo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Cattle farmers in Ntungamo district want the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries to ease the foot and mouth disease quarantine regulations imposed on two sub-counties. The government imposed total livestock quarantine on the sub counties of Rubaare and Ngoma in February, 2022 following …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Museveni has directed that the Ntungamo district engineer in charge of building, Apollo Kariyo be suspended to pave way for investigations into the shoddy works on Eriya Kategaya Memorial Institute in Itojo sub-county, Ntungamo district. The Eriya Kategeya Memorial Institute is a 2013 presidential …

Ntungamo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ugandan government has deported 15 Rwandan nationals who have been under security arrest, according to a highly placed security official. The Rwandan nationals were deported through the Uganda, Rwanda border of Mirama Hills in Ntungamo district on Wednesday. According to the source, the first …

Ntungamo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Four family members in Nyaburiza village, Nyarutuntu sub-county, Ntungamo district perished in an arson attack on Monday morning. The dead are the family head, Obed Akampurira, 34, Innocent Ainamatsiko, 9, Patricia Ainembabazi, 7, and Peterson Aijuka, 18 months. Akampurira’s wife, Olivia Birungi is nursing burns …

Ntungamo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Ntungamo district councillors have refused to pass the 554 Million Shillings Covid-19 supplementary budget. The budget was presented by the Secretary of Finance Naboth Mpirirwe. Mpirirwe told the councillors that the budget seeks to facilitate inland travels, allowances to facilitate Covid-19 meetings, vehicle and motorcycle …