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THE G4S Pirates have withdrawn from the inaugural Super Cup final that was due this weekend at Entebbe mongers rugby ground.
THE increased entry of foreign runners particularly from Kenya, looks set to cut chances of another Ugandan victory in the MTN Kampala International marathon on Sunday. Francis Musani wants to retain the title while Joseph Nsubuga will hope to repeat his feat of five years ago.
COACH Moses Basena is confident the last two results against Kinyara and KCC are a statement that URA FC is settling after a rocky start to the Uganda Super League.
RALLY driver Posiano Lwakataka has registered his two sons for the Mbarara Motor Club (MMC) Super Sprint due November 29 at the Festino Cite in Mukono.
MASAKA district LC5 chairperson, Vincent Sempijja, has asked residents of the Kasijjagirwa Armoured Brigade to stop employing outsiders on their farms. Sempijja said it was better to employ the wives of soldiers on the farms.
THE Police in Wakiso have destroyed a marijuana plantation belonging to a resident of Kikandwa zone in Kakiri county.
A total of 10 residents of Sembwa village in Nakaseke sub-county have been remanded in connection with a recent incident in which a mob demolished a home, killed several animals and looted sh2m, accusing the owner of being a sorcerer.
ANGRY residents of Nateta village in Nazigo sub-county, Kayunga district, on Tuesday beheaded a man suspected to be a chicken thief.
MANGERS of the savings and credit cooperative societies (SACCOS) have been warned against segregation.
A total of 22 Karimojong warriors suspected of murder have been arrested in a joint operation by the army and the Police in the last one month.
NINE LRA who returned last month after spending 13 years in captivity have appealed for assistance from the Government to resume their education.
ONE person died instantly and two others sustained injuries when the vehicle in which they were travelling overturned. The trio were transporting A'level examination papers to schools in Pader town.
A total of 821 followers of the Faith of Unity, a religious cult, have denounced their sect and crossed to the Anglican Church since the beginning of this year.
THE Police in Bushenyi district are holding two men who allegedly stole over sh17m from Indians recently. The district Police commander, Jimmy Oyuku, identified the two suspects as Francis Kasindizi and Arthur Namara.
THE Police in Kasese district have said defilement cases have drastically reduced. An official from the child and family protection unit, Wilson Kathembo, said the decline was due to massive community sensitisation about child rights by civil society organisations.
MBALE district leaders expressed shock and concern after the head of the International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC) in Uganda revealed that the district had 3,300 child labourers.
OVER 150 girls were defiled in Tororo district last month. Statistics at Tororo Central Police Station indicated that 58 cases were reported in September and 103 in October this year.
Ambassador Julius Onen, the new Tourism Permanent secretary endured baptism of fire as MPs pushed him to explain questionable accountability of Shs5 billion for Chogm activities.
High levels of poverty, illiteracy and sight incapacitation in Kamuli District are some of factors advanced by the Electoral Commission to explain widespread election malpractices in the 2007 by-election for district chairperson.
Thousands of mature people now have a chance to enroll for studies at Makerere University after the ban on mature age entry was lifted.
No road or pavement in and around the Kampala City centre should be dusty, President Museveni has directed the Kampala City Council.
African farmers are seeding prosperity. Just ask the woman they call "Marie Nerica" who is sowing a new breed of Nerica rice in Sierra Leone. She now produces enough to sell the surplus in local markets and to the government. Her success sprang from the government's renewed commitment to agriculture, sealed when it recently signed a compact known as the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development ...
Smiles Communications Uganda Limited, the seventh telecommunications company in Uganda is launching its services today.
MTN Uganda was last week named winner of the Rural Services Award at the Second AfricaCom Awards in Cape Town, South Africa.
Finance Minister Syda Bbumba has called on the banks to financially support the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) sector.
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