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The Uganda National Laboratories Services (UNLS) and National Tuberculosis (TB) reference Laboratory in Butabika commissioned on Thursday will provide the country with modern tools in the fight against several infectious diseases. According to officials, the Butabika laboratory has new world class infrastructure and will support health practitioners to provide more accurate and faster …

VIDEO: NBS Television has committed to support to the 2nd edition of the Public Relations Association of Uganda scheduled to take place on 25th November 2016 at Golf course hotel. Handing over a Sh80 million cheque to the association, the Chief Executive Officer NBS Television Kin Karisa committed to continue funding …

A group of six students from the Makerere Law School have gone to the High Court seeking orders to immediately re-open the university that was closed on November 1, 2016. Sam Ssekyewa, Moses Mushime, Francis Kibombo, Cissy Nabatanzi, Emmanuel Kanyesigye and John Robert  Turyakira claim that President Yoweri Museveni  exceeded …

VIDEO: The Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA) has unveiled a multimillion shilling master plan that will see traffic through the central business district controlled. According to the roads authority Eng. Patrick Muleme, the two million dollar project will involve constructing a ring road that will provide access routes to and from …

VIDEO: Soccer governing body Fufa is seeking legal action against a group of ex-internationals that attacked FUFA House and ravaged property on Monday  Moses Magogo, announced the federations move during weekly press briefing at the federation headquarters in Mengo.     Share on: WhatsApp

VIDEO: Controversial Kampala City tycoon Hassan Bassajjabalaba has alleged that the Inspector General of Police General Kale Kayihura and Kampala Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago are involved in the said misappropriation of at least sh19 billion collected at the City Abattoir over the last six years. Appearing before the Presidential affairs committee of …

Rally driver Ponsiano Lwakataka has petitioned the Kampala High Court seeking compensation of over sh40 billion shillings for what he says was malicious prosecution. In the case he filed against Attorney General and police officer Twaha Semanda,  Lwakataka says he was on  September 9,  2014 “arrested and maliciously prosecuted for …

Embattled Bridge International Academies have been dragged to the Kampala High Court by human rights watchdog Legal Brains Trust Ltd for alleged violation of children’s rights when it operated pre-primary and primary education without a license. The NGO contends that the Bridge schools continued to operate despite inadequate sanitation and buildings which …

Kampala, Uganda | AFP |  Uganda’s police said Tuesday they had nabbed a con man suspected of swindling a Polish weapons manufacturer into signing a bogus 120-million dollar arms deal. BMP Poland inked the multi-million dollar deal with the man, named as Sam Ssimbwa, who had presented himself to the …

Parliament on Tuesday defied President Yoweri Museveni’s directive to have the Income Tax (Amendment) Bill, 2016 amended to allow MPs’ allowances to be taxed. “The Committee recommends that the Tax Bill be passed in its current form, and be sent back to the president for assent,” Henry Musasizi, the chairperson …