The Guardian, a British paper recently reported that the alleged fraud was detected after Busoga Association claimed to have spent over 198 million shillings to hire consultants to make a bid for a donation from Comic relief.
The Court of Appeal has declined to grant permission to the 4 NRM MPs to appeal to the Supreme Court over their impending expulsion from Parliament. MPs Theodore Ssekikubo, Wilfred Nuwagaba, Barnabas Tinkasiimire and Mohammed Nsereko were challenging the jurisdiction of 3 judges to hear and determine a Constitutional application by their party seeking to throw them out of parliament.
At least 95 members of the U.S. Congress have signed a bipartisan letter to President Barack Obama, urging him to address the violence of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in Central Africa.
The Population Secretariat is calling for an emphasis on sexuality education and sexual reproductive health for teenagers as a way of reducing teenage pregnancies.
According to Dr. Julius Muron, a Psychiatrist at Butabika Mental Hospital says about 10% of women are exposed to third hand and second hand smoking, which occurs through the inhalation of cigarette smoke, either at workplaces, homes or in public places. In June, new research from Laurence Berkeley National Laboratory at the University of California claimed for the first time that third-hand smoke from cigarettes causes significant genetic damage to human cells.
