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KYAMBOGO Warriors coach Gad Eteu will demand more passion from his team when they take on D'Mark Power in Game 2 of the MTN-FUBA men's division 1 playoff finals tonight.
PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni and Southern Sudan president Salva Kiir yesterday inspected the disputed Uganda-Sudan border area and called for calm.
GOLF will next season return to Mbale after nearly a decade.
THE national U-19 girls' cricket team started on a good note, winning their first two games on Sunday and Monday to stay in line for the ICC Africa regional trophy in Tanzania.
THE National Resistance Movement (NRM) deputy secretary general, Dorothy Hyuha, has told party members to be careful when choosing candidates for the 2011 general elections.
A TOTAL of 713 students have graduated with diplomas and degrees in various business courses at Multitech Business School. The school's second graduation had 453 females and 260 males.
RESIDENTS of Mafumbe village in Kitimbwa sub-county in Kayunga district are living in shock and fear after unknown people revived exhuming dead bodies from graveyards in the area.
WHEN Prof. Timothy Wangusa, the presidential adviser on literary affairs, was a little boy, he used to walk 500 metres, everyday to Nambale Pre-Primary School. Wangusa became a literature lecturer and professor at Makerere University and Mukono Christian University, respectively for over 40 years.
THERE is hope and economic value in growing vanilla in Uganda. This was the main message on Vanilla Day, which was celebrated in Ngongwe, Mukono district earlier this month.
COUNTRIES with high gender inequality gaps are more likely to have hunger and malnutrition, says a report released by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
CASSAVA farmers in Pallisa, Bukedea and Soroti districts in eastern Uganda have been trained to process cassava into high quality flour for industrial use. The move is part of the comprehensive strategy by Africa Innovations Institute to fight poverty through the Cassava Adding Value for Africa (C:AVA) project.
BETWEEN the year 2004 and 2008, farmers in Kapeeka, Semuto and Nakaseke grew only rice. A year ago, however, this changed, thanks to the intervention of Gen. Salim Saleh and Chinese investors.
THE Lions Club of Kampala Central on Saturday gave free treatment to about 2,340 patients in Rusheshe Health Centre III in Buhunga sub-county, Rukungiri district. The former district governor of the club, Shem Bageine, said about sh50m was spent on the exercise.
Churches should embrace conditions that will encourage children to love God, President Yoweri Museveni has urged. "Our children are growing up in a time of moral decadence. Therefore, the church must set conditions that will encourage them to love God," Museveni noted.
This is a moment of truth for the Commonwealth. The anti-homosexuality Private Member's Bill introduced into the parliament of Uganda, and now proceeding through the normal legislative process, puts the Commonwealth's legitimacy and integrity to the test.
PRESIDENT Rupiah Banda is today expected to launch the 2009/10 agricultural planting season at Mufika Farm in Monze.
ACTING Foreign Affairs Minister Ronnie Shikapwasha yesterday led scores of mourners who included senior Government officials and members of the diplomatic corps to the funeral of the late Zambian counsellor to Brazil Gerald Musilekwa Wakumelo.
MMD National Secretary Katele Kalumba is still admitted to the high cost ward of the University Teaching Hospital (UTH) in Lusaka, public relations manager Pauline Mbangweta has said.
ETHIOPIAN First Lady Azeb Mesfin who is the current Organisation of African First Ladies Against HIV and AIDS (OAFLA) chair person, arrived yesterday in Zambia ahead of today's First Lady's workshop.
FORMER Patriotic Front (PF) secretary general Edward Mumbi says he has not received summons in the case in which PF leader Michael Sata has sued him for defamation.
KABWE High Court Judge Timothy Katanekwa has found four Chawama police officers with a case to answer for aggravated robbery involving K75 million.
Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babatunde Fashola has urged National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members posted to the state to accept postings to various areas of primary assignment in good faith.
Director-General, Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA), Prof. Osita Eze has described climate change and its bad effects as the most daunting challenges of the present world.
As a way of resolving the war of supremacy in the National Assembly over joint session on budget presentation, Senator Bode Olajumoke has advised the federal lawmakers to approach the Supreme Court rather than disgracing the country.
Former Nigerian envoy to Spain and one time national chairman of Alliance for Democracy (AD), Ambassador Mamman Yusuf and three others were yesterday arraigned before a High Court sitting in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), over alleged misappropriation of N300million belonging to Aso Radio and Television, Abuja.
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