The Ministry of Health in Uganda is looking for about 300 people who are said to be contacts of the 15 Ebola cases confirmed in Greater Kampala. “We have already about 300 we are following up,” Mr Emmanuel Ainebyona, the ministry spokesperson, told this publication in a telephone interview yesterday. He said contacts are being […]
95.6 per cent of the staff in healthcare facilities (HCF) in the greater Kampala Metropolitan areas do not wash their hands during work according to study. The study that was conducted by WaterAid between last November and July this year showed that 44 of 46 healthcare providers sampled from 63 facilities in and around Kampala […]
Metropolitan International University (MIU) has entered into cooperation with Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University (FAFU) in China The cooperation is will see the introduction of JUNCAO Technology as a course of study in Uganda. JUNCAO Technology will play an important role in poverty alleviation, increased employment and environmental protection, in Uganda. The cooperation will also help […]
A somber incident unfolded on Sunday afternoon at Uganda Christian University (UCU) in Mukono, as a security guard shot and killed 25-year-old Rudney Agaba. The incident occurred while Agaba was surveying land that he had inherited from his mother. Eyewitnesses reported that a rope had accidentally fallen over to the other side of the fence, […]
Police in Kampala are searching for Augustine Sekajugo, a dental surgery student at Makerere University who has been missing for eight days now. According to his neighbor, Sekajugo left his rented room on May 2 at 1 pm, informing his friend that he was going to attend lectures at Makerere but never returned home. “I waited for […]
Bushura Najjuko, a resident of Katereke Cell in Kyengera Town Council, Wakiso district was set to get married to Faruk Mugalu on Sunday last week but she went missing a day before and police had since mounted a search for her. The 24-year-old bride who went missing on the eve of her wedding day has […]
Mr Patrick Onyango, the Kampala Metropolitan Police Spokesperson, identified the deceased as Roy Alituha, 28, son of Mr Timothy Magezi who works as a custodian at Kyambogo University. Police in Kampala metropolitan are investigating circumstances under which a man who had been missing for a month, was found dead and his body decomposing. Mr Patrick […]
A section of former Makerere University students has petitioned the high court challenging Convocation elections held in December last year. The petitioners led by former contestants Robert Rutaaro, Gerald Karuhanga, and Charles Odongtho through their lawyers of Elgon Advocates are seeking the nullification of the elections, arguing that they didn’t follow established rules. The petitioners are seeking an order quashing all decisions and resolutions taken during the annual […]