With the commencement of a week-long promotional involving 79 nursing training schools countrywide, the Uganda Nurses and Midwives Examination Board-UNMEB has asked government to make some strategy changes to attract more people into the profession. The...
Less than 48 hours after the World Health Organization (WHO) sounded alarm over the spread of a cholera, which has killed 528 people and now affects 20 of the 26 provinces in the Democratic Republic...
President Yoweri Museveni has Monday had a cherished encounter with his namesake, baby Kaguta, born two weeks ago in Busoga. Young Kaguta was a fortnight ago born to Brenda Suubi Asinde, the NRM’s Flagbearer in...
Into final day, Uganda's ministry of health has termed ‘successful’ a door-to-door polio immunization campaign to prevent the reintroduction of wild polio virus from neighboring countries. The three-day exercise that started on Saturday is targeting...
The feud between President Yoweri Museveni’s Permanent Private Secretary Molly Kamukama and the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) Secretary General Justine Kasule Lumumba has reached boiling point. The latest in the corridors of power reveals that it...
The Lions Club of Kampala Central club in partnership with FOL Logistics producers of the Kingdom Rice brand have organised three eye medical camps starting next month. This year’s $40,000 contribution will facilitate 1,000 cataract...
Heavy rain has been affecting the Western Uganda region over the past few days, causing casualties and damages. Now the sick cannot be sent to the the Kisiizi Hospital, a community hospital in the town...
After five months in jail over his alleged involvement in the murder of former police spokesperson Andrew Felix Kaweesi, the Kamwege Mayor Godfrey Byamukama whose torture by Uganda Police was widely publicized has spoken out...
Apple will test its customers’ loyalty, buying power and enthusiasm for innovation this week when it unveils the first iPhone to cost as much as $1,000. The 10th anniversary iPhone, offering significant upgrades in display,...
IT'S ONE THING FOR OLDER divorced or long widowed women to undergo a caesarean section but for Ms Annet Kaweesi, the widow to the slain Police spokesperson Andrew Felix Kaweesi, it’s a trying moment. Annet,...
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