Dr John Omagino the UHI Executive Director said the new equipment is state-of-the-art and it’s planned to work on 10,000 patients requiring complex surgeries, almost double the number of procedures handled by the decommissioned equipment during its operational lifespan.
The cooperatives selected for revival include Gthe em Cooperative Society, Adak Cooperative Society, Bobi Grain Cooperative Society, Awoo Cooperative Society and Kulu Tit among others.
The mentorship programme is part of an ongoing effort to improve the professional capacity of ODPP Prosecutors and ensure greater efficiency and effectiveness in the justice system.
The three robbers who were travelling on a motorcycle attacked Elizabeth Namwanje, who was driving a Spacio. The incident happened on Monday at 4:00 pm in Kamuli Lubawo zone, Kireka, Kira Municipality.
According to the Press statement released by Frank Baine Mayanja the Spokesperson of Uganda Prison Service, the Commissioner General of Prisons has ordered the Service to be on Standby Class One from 16th December to 18th January,2025.
Uganda Coffee Development Authority-UCDA is currently urging farmers in Northern Uganda to embrace large-scale coffee growing, owing to its abundant and conducive land for the enterprise, and the goal produce 20 million bags of coffee by 2030.
Sekibaala aged 62 years by then strangled the wife and later set the body on fire inside the house. He later ran to his brother where he reported the death of his wife and blamed it on a bomb explosion in their house before he fled to evade arrest.
Rwenzori East Police Spokesperson, Nelson Tumushime has identified the suspect as Marius Kabugho, a resident of Nyakasanga Cell of Nyamwamba Division, Kasese Municipality who stubbed her husband, Octavia Baluku, 32 years.
At the heart of the controversy is a ruling issued by Justice Musa Ssekaana on December 13th, 2024, in the case of Hashim Mugisha Mugisha against the Uganda Law Society (ULS) and seven others in which he blocked the Extra Ordinary Annual General Meeting for lawyers where elections for ULS representatives to the Judicial Service Commission were to take place today .
Last month, the State Minister for Ethics and Integrity in the Office of President, Rose Lilly Akello, together with the interagency Anticorruption bodies, conducted an accountability baraza in Masaka, where they arrested a number of technical staff, including heads of departments, who are named in various corruption tendencies.
Over the previous 12 months to the end of November 2024, there have been a general appreciation of the shilling against all the major currencies, overcoming the threat of sanctions on the country over human rights earlier in the year.
Edward Andruga, the District Education Officer, says the transfers are aimed at improving the performance of learners in the schools that have for years posted poor results.
The deceased have been identified as Sipiriano Moding, 20, a resident of Katiira Village, and Alex Kamba, 18, from Kositi A Village. The two were engaged in quarrying stones when a sudden collapse of sand buried them alive under a heavy load of material.
Ahimbisibwe Kateregga had been arrested for using a panga to cut off the head of his wife. However, after six years on remand, he agreed to plead guilty to murder and a pre-bargain agreement was entered with the Director of Public Prosecutions in 2015.
According to local sources, the rebels entered Alimbongo and Vutsumbiro, situated in Bamate Chiefdom, on Monday evening around 6:30 PM. This followed fierce clashes with the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC) and a coalition of local militias under the Wazalendo (Patriots) banner.
Bulambuli District LC V Chairperson, Annet Nandudu, appealed to the Prime Minister to extend the road network to neighboring sub-counties. She highlighted that the district’s road funding is insufficient to open new roads, despite the growing need for better infrastructure in the region.
The beneficiaries, primarily youth, underwent three months of training in hairdressing, motor vehicle mechanics, welding, plumbing, electric installation, carpentry, tailoring, and more.
