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Stanbic Bank has launched a new Automated Teller Machine (ATM) and internet based banking platform. The initiative brings speed and convenience to the payment of tuition fees by students as transactions are executed instantly.
After Fire Masters' blistering start to the season, the National Super League is starting to take a familiar shape - both at the top and bottom.
On November 28, 2000, Parliament debated a motion for creation of new districts. Local Government Minister Adolf Mwesige then moved an amendment to withhold the creation of Kyenjojo District because there was no consensus on its creation within Tooro Kingdom.
The long awaited East African integration will be operationalised in January 2010. The East African presidents signed the Protocol for the East African Common Market on Friday in Arusha, Tanzania. The next stage is for the community to achieve a Common Currency and, hopefully by 2015, a federal state.
Police in Ntungamo are holding a 36-year-old witchdoctor who allegedly sacrificed his client's baby and forcefully had sex with her. Mr Ballam Mugisha from Kagando Kafunjo Sub-county, was arrested last week after he allegedly sacrificed Vangilista Ahimbisibwe's baby.
This is going to be one of the most important weeks for Lands Minister Daniel Omara Atubo. The former UPC strongman, who made a name for himself as a vocal critic of the Museveni administration, will be glad that the Land (Amendment) Bill 2008 is taking its final bend towards passing this week.
Seven officials from Kanungu District were on Friday arrested over alleged misappropriation of funds meant for the National Agricultural Advisory Services (Naads) activities in the area.
The continued planting of tea in Kyenjojo has affected the Universal Primary Education (UPE) programme, according to district officials. A public dialogue last week revealed that most pupils dodge class to go and work in the fields.
The European Union (EU) will inject another Shs50 billion in at least 10 war-affected districts of Acholi, Lango, West Nile and Teso sub regions. The funding, which is expected to roll out early next year, will focus on boosting agricultural productivity of former displaced persons and ensure food security.
Residents of Obingi County in Moyo District are furious over the failure by President Museveni to fulfill his campaign pledge to provide a ferry for the area to ease transport.
The towns of Busia, Lugazi and Mbale are largely commercial but there was good reason for a breather last weekend as the new Uganda Breweries brand, President Extra Lager made stops in the respective towns to engage folks in evenings of fun.
Over the last two weeks, Parliament has been debating the Land Amendment Bill 2007. The Bill was first tabled in Parliament for the first reading in December 2007.
"I was finding it difficult to educate my children after my husband passed on. When I attended the African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF) sessions on how to save and borrow money using a savings scheme, I benefited a lot.
TWO hundred new cases of diabetes mellitus are registered every month in Uganda. The incidence is on the increase as two million people in Uganda are living with diabetes.
IMAGINE a situation where you have to spend more than half of your earning on medication so you can live for another day. This is a reality of diabetic patients who are also on antiretroviral treatment (ARVs).
A 65-year-old man is being held at Tororo Central Police Station over the defilement of a 15-year-old girl.
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Parliament met on Wednesday, November 18 at 2:00pm to continue debating the Land Amendment Bill. The Speaker, Edward Ssekandi, chaired the session. Below are the proceedings.
Mbarara and Kanungu district officials who mismanaged the National Agricultural Advisory Services cash have been quizzed by the Ministerial National Taskforce investigating the misuse of Naads funds.
Satirist Hilary Bainomugisha in his Dr Love Column made an apt summary that when you get any capital letters- CHOGM, NSSF, NFA, NAADS, URA, GAVI, GF, RRU- and add the word government, the result is corruption.
One major area in which Julius K. Nyerere was a rival to Kwame Nkrumah was the arena of regional integration. For years Nkrumah had been virtually the unrivalled voice of Pan-Africanism and the symbol of the continent's quest for greater integration. On a more modest scale, Nkrumah had even attempted to forge a union between Guinea, Ghana and Mali. But these attempts at unification proved ...
The very unfortunate and rather bizarre manner of death of former Army Commander Maj. Gen. James Kazini should help us ask questions of the investigative capacity of the Uganda Police Force.
Uganda's oldest political party, the Democratic Party has survived several political waves in the last five decades but the current bickering threatens to break the remaining nerves if not properly sorted out.
The Super League title may be too early to call but SC Villa may find themselves ruing the lost time and games if they don't step up. And step as soon as today.
Ministers and government officials who fail to provide accountability for money given to them for Chogm activities should be arrested, MPs have resolved.
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