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A total of 125 families in Orum, Olilim, Omoro and Abako sub-counties have received agricultural inputs and improved seeds worth sh129m as a resettlement package by the Rotary Club.
THE education sector in Amuru district is in a sorry state, Bungokho North MP Gudoi Yahaya has said. Yahaya was last Wednesday leading MPs on the social service parliamentary committee on a monitoring tour of the sector in the district.
RESIDENTS of Nebbi district who want to extend the boundary of Jonam County from the River Nile into Amuru district have been warned.
THE Meteorology department in the water and environment ministry cannot provide sufficient data to determine weather changes.
By July 2009, as his legal battles took a turn for the worse, Maj. Gen. James Kazini was considering leaving Uganda for the United States, Daily Monitor can reveal.
Once again leaked evidence of a behind-the-scenes Central Bank investigation led to a panic over Centenary Rural Development Bank forcing the regulator to hold a press conference to allay fears.
Kampala City Council (KCC) Leopards had an easy ride in the semi-finals, rolling over Kampala International University (KIU) Rangers 3-0 in the best-of-five MTN-Fuba League semi-final series. But going into the final, Leopards know they won't have another smooth sailing especially against the experienced A-1 Challenge.
Frank Zziwa and Fredrick Kamara will represent Uganda in next month's World Draughts Championship in Berlin, Germany. Zziwa, 24, Uganda's most rated player and together with Kamara, the vice-president of the Uganda Draughts Federation, have been invited to the event by World Draughts body, Federation Mondiale Du Jeu De Dames.
With Tornado having already bagged the Castle Lager National Premier League (Super 7) crown last weekend, focus shifts to the Plate League today with four clubs eyeing the available promotion slots.
On October 29 - 30, the Office of the Prime Minister, the Ministry of Finance and the World Bank had a workshop discussing the new Joint Budget Support that is being given to the Uganda government. What 'Joint Budget Support' means in simple terms is that a few donors have come together and decided to support Uganda by putting money in the national budget and then it is spent based on the ...
Last year, competitors in the MTN Kampala marathon 10km subsidiary race got lost along the way and ended up running a shorter distance. To avoid a repeat of last year's scenario, organisers have devised several means to hold a mishap-free event. One of the measures is staging one of the subsidiary races today - a week to the main event. The 10km wheelchair race gets underway this morning, starting ...
Legislators on Friday resolved to summon NSSF board chairman, Vincent Ssekkono for questioning as Police moved to arrest a top bureaucrat in the Ministry of Local Government over alleged Chogm cash fraud.
While mourning his son, Bryan Bukenya (who died in a road accident last weekend), the Vice President, Prof. Gilbert Bukenya, made some very notable remarks: "He was the only boy who could scratch my back. The only boy whom I would give Shs1,000 and he would return the change." (Daily Monitor, Nov. 10) And the New Vision quoted him saying: "Bryan has been very well behaved and honest. I had thought ...
As a security measure, there will be no procession through Kampala streets but the World Cup trophy will finally be paraded at Lugogo Cricket oval this morning. "The value of this trophy is immeasurable," Coca-Cola Uganda brand manager Maggie Kigozi said while explaining the decision not to hold a procession as the trophy makes its way from Serena Hotel to Lugogo.
A tight athletic fielding display and half century knock of 52 runs by stalwart Benjamin Musoke helped a Uganda Cricket Association (UCA) select side defeat the touring English side Ealing CC by 12 runs at Kyambogo oval on Friday. Ealing CC, who are the five-time Middlesex champions, defeated the Universities Select XI by 88 runs on Wednesday but found a sterner test in the UCA side that comprised ...
The Democratic Party legal adviser, Mr Anthony Kiwanuka and two others are in court seeking to block party officials led by their leader John Ssebaana Kizito from distributing membership cards. They say the act is illegal.
The military record of Maj. Gen. James Kazini, the former army commander who died on Tuesday, was as perfect as it was flawed. The fitting epithets could be many: Eager hunter of rebels. Corrupt man. Ruthless soldier. Insubordinate officer.
The National Forum of People Living with HIV/Aids wants the government to explain the alleged disappearance of over $4.27 million (Shs8 billion) from the Global Fund that was given to Uganda to buy antiretroviral drugs between October and December this year.
Former finance minister Gerald Sendaula has said his quick instincts made him survive death on Thursday when a Rwandair plane bound for Entebbe rammed into the Kigali International Airport in Kanombe, a Kigali suburb.
The American culture is arguably the most profound on the globe because of its diversity. The intensity of this culture is ironically rooted in the history of slavery and subjugation of African-Americans until they were forced to fight back using all means necessary.
"Authors are like children who are starting to walk, some will stand up, fall down and smile but after some time, they will stand up again.
Debate on the government's land law reform proposals as contained in the Land (Amendment) Bill 2007 opened Thursday amid protests from several lawmakers.
A new theatre group, Form Fame has emerged on the theatre scene. Their first production, Respite is currently showing at the National Theatre. And while the production has been on stage for some time now, it has failed to attract a sizeable audience.
He has had President Yoweri Museveni as a special VIP guest to his London art exhibition in 2007 and the Kabaka of Buganda launched his first solo exhibition a year before that. Ismael Kateregga, one of Uganda's most gifted artists has another exhibition which started on the November 7th.
The story of the house that Maj. Gen. Kazini was renting and in which he was killed sounds like one of Stephen Edwin Kings' stories and one which would inspire a horror movie about a haunted house.
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