16 hr. ago
In two weeks’ time, another 1,500 Ugandans currently being trained in Kampala by Dreshak International Limited will fly out to work in Iraq. This will take the number of Ugandans working in the war torn country close to 10,000.
16 hr. ago
President Yoweri Museveni may have finally learnt his lessons the hard way. Two Chinese nationals he has pampered as investors for three years have walked way with $1.5 million (about Shs 2.6 billion) that the President personally helped them to secure...
17 hr. ago
Wole Soyinka, the celebrated Nigerian playwright said women are the weaker sex. But the women emancipation tide that is sweeping across the continent is proving that Soyinka’s philosophy may after all be demystified.
17 hr. ago
People filled the courtroom yesterday to have a glance at a man who allegedly sexually abused his 15-year-old daughter. James Kimera, 45, was remanded in Luzira Prison over aggravated defilement, which carries a death sentence on conviction.
17 hr. ago
Uganda needs at least 1,400 pharmacists if it is to reverse the current challenges faced in supplying and regulating the flow of medicinal drugs.
17 hr. ago
A search for the body of a two-year-old child started yesterday following the Tuesday accident in which a mini-bus plunged into River Aswa on the Gulu-Pader district border.
Aug 26 2008
NGOs operating in Northern Uganda are conniving with the government to keep people in camps, the Gulu district vice chairperson Mr Marmot Kitara has said.
Aug 26 2008
THE mother was admitted to hospital, leaving her 15-year-old daughter in the hands of her father. But the 45-year-old man instead defiled her at their home in Nateete, a Kampala suburb in December 2008.
Aug 23 2008
Uganda will not achieve the 2010 targets of providing HIV/Aids prevention, care and treatment, as well as psychosocial support services to all her citizens who need them.
Aug 18 2008
HIV is the same regardless of the route of infection. However, the lifestyle of a person may influence the progression of the disease.