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THOUSANDS of Ugandans will be privileged to have a glimpse of the prestigious solid-gold trophy at the Lugogo Cricket Oval today.
MTN Heathens whipped Hima Impis 31-0 in the third leg of the Broadband rugby 7s finals circuit in Jinja yesterday.
NATIONAL Insurance Corporation (NIC) will maintain supporting sports activities, the firm's managing director Samson Akinwale explained on Friday.
UGANDA's U-20 women's team -the She Hippos will not resume training until November 23 when they enter camp. The move to begin residential training at Kavumba Recreation Centre in Wakiso, is geared at cutting costs ahead of the first round clash against Zambia.
The fireworks is on as Tornado encounter Wanderers
The European Union is giving a total of 653 million Euros to the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) member countries to finance projects that will help them to develop capacity in trade with other countries.
OWEN Kasule hit a brace and Ibrahim Juma scored the other goal as Bunamwaya beat Simba in the Uganda Super League at Nakivubo yesterday.
Kenya and Uganda Railways Corporation (KRC & URC) and their respective governments are planning to build a new standard rail line.
ONCE, Uganda was closed off from the rest of the world. With one radio and TV station, mainstream religions, one university and no Internet, people had no choice. Timothy Bukumunhe looks back at how far Uganda has come and where we are at.
THERE is no job she cannot do, no challenge she can't face. She learnt her lessons from the school of hard knocks, when she should have been fantasising about marriage and starting her own family. Her problems started with her father's death in 1979.
DIVISIONS in the Democratic Party (DP) have deepened, triggering a rumour that the planned delegates' conference may either be postponed or cancelled.
IF rumours are to be believed, then there is frantic effort to get the ruling party MPs to avoid getting at each others throat.
UGANDA plans to export 50,000 security guards to the United Arab Emirates in the coming year, the labour minister has said.
THE Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) has impounded contraband cigarettes that were being smuggled into the district.
THE golden morning sunrays filter through the tree branches in the lush lawns of Kabaka's palace on Kireka hill. The brilliantly coloured flowers and the greenery are refreshing, reminding one of the biblical "Garden of Eden".
DESPITE having one of the highest fertility rates in the world, few married women in Uganda use contraception. Compared to other countries in the region, Uganda trails in family planning use.
KEEPING a respectful distance from the village elders and dressed decently in a gomesi, 40-year-old Irene Nakidodo, sits pensively as she attends a community family planning sensitisation meeting.
THAT Uganda loses 16 mothers to pregnancy and childbirth everyday is as strange as it is true. To put facts into perspective, this is an equivalent of losing a commuter taxi full of expectant mothers everyday.
OVER 1,200 pieces of timber have been impounded in an operation to curb illegal pit-sawing in Kibaale district.
PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has commended Pastor Samuel Kakande for preaching the gospel and praying for the sick.
LEADERS from Kapchorwa district have appealed to the parliamentary social services committee to liaise with the Government to quickly settle the land dispute between the Benet and Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA).
THE dialogue between farmers in Kibiniko village in Mbale district and Nasenyi village in Budaka has restored calm to Namatala wetland.
THE Government is to spend $150m (about sh282b) to build infrastructure in Universal Secondary Education (USE) schools countrywide, the state minister for primary education, Dr. Kamanda Bataringaya, has disclosed.
Museveni holds the World Cup trophy at State House Entebbe. World Cup finals will be held in South Africa next year.
YVONE Namaganda, who perished in last year's Budo Junior School inferno while saving fellow pupils, was given the hero's award in this year's Young Achievers Awards.
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