Security Not Given Priority As Schools Reopen
BY KABOOHA Schools in Uganda have today 10th Jan 2022 resumed teaching after nearly two years of closure due to Covid-19. However, in many schools which were visited by our reporter, security at the entrance was loose as all the attention was put on recording temperatures of visitors but not checking them for any suspicious […]
Continue ReadingFort-Portal: RCC Threatens To Apprehend Religious Leaders
BY SYLVIA KUGONZA Religious leaders sabotaging the government programmes of Covid-19 vaccination and National Oral Polio Vaccination campaigns risk being apprehended and prosecuted in courts law. Festus Bandeeba, the Deputy Resident City Commissioner Fort Portal observes with concern that there are religious leaders instigating believers asking them to boycott the government programs like covid 19 […]
Continue Reading2022 Academic Year,Parents Worried Of School Dues
By Clare N Parents in Kabarole have joined parents elsewhere in Uganda to send back their children to schools despite hardships in putting together the required school dues. This follows the presidential directive of ending the world’s ever longest school closure resulting from the COVID-19 Pandemic. The rush to open schools yesterday has left some […]
Continue ReadingNTOROKO: Submerged schools fail to reopen
EDITORIAL Education, The district chairperson Ntoroko district has stated that all schools that were affected by the rising water levels of Lake Albert in Kanara Sub County have been able to reopen immediately for the academic year. Kasoro says four schools, which include Umoja, Kachwamkumu, Kanara and Rwangara primary schools, have not been able to […]
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Benjamin Nyakoojo Humbled For First National Team Summon
By JOSHUA .A. BACWA Uganda Revenue Football Club centre back Benjamin Nyakoojo Araali is pleased having been summoned to the Uganda team preparing for the upcoming international build up matches in Europe and Asia. Nyakoojo confessed to 105.6 Jubilee Radio Sports Department that the summon is truly humbling and motivates him to work extra […]
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Benjamin Nyakoojo Earns His Maiden Call To The Uganda Cranes
By JOSHUA .A. BACWA Uganda Cranes head coach Milutin Sredojevic has summoned a team of 44 players in preparation for the upcoming international build up matches in Europe and Asia. Uganda will play five international build up matches against Iceland, Botosani and Moldova in Turkey.Two other build ups will be held in Asia; against Iraq […]
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Fort Portal resident hacks two year old girl to death
The police in Fort Portal have arrested a 36 year-old man for allegedly killing a two-year-old girl and injuring two others. According to the Rwenzori West Police Spokesperson Vincent Twesige, David Kachope, a resident of Kidukuru cell, Karambi ward in Fort Portal allegedly hacked Angel Fautsine to death on Tuesday night. He adds that […]
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Police FC Continues Their Resurgence Leaving Tooro United Reeling
By Joshua A. Bacwa Police beat Tooro United in a Uganda Premier league game played at Buhinga Stadium in Fort Portal Tourism City. Former Kitara Fc striker Brian Mayanja Mululi, Juma Balinya and Tonny Mawejje scored a goal each as Police jumped out of the relegation zone. It’s the successive win for Police who recently […]
Continue ReadingRwenzori Agencies Set To Kick GBV Out Of The Region
By CLARE NAYEBARE Stakeholders from the Rwenzori region have partnered with NGO’S of Action for Women Foundation (AWF) and Rwenzori Forum for peace and Justice (RFPJ) to discuss issues of gender based violence related in Rwenzori region. In a recent two day workshop funded by UN women under Women’s peace and Humanitarian Fund held at […]
Continue ReadingNew Kampala ArchBishop:
EDITORIAL Bishop Paul Ssemogerere takes over from late Cyprian LwangaBishop Paul Ssemogerere has been confirmed as the new Archbishop of Kampala archdiocese by Pope Francis. Bishop Ssemogerere’s appointment was confirmed on Thursday, December 9, 2021 by the Apostolic Nunciature to Uganda, Archbishop Luigi Bianco at Lubaga Cathedral. Ssemogerere replaces late Cyprian Kizito Lwanga who was […]
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