Stories :: Category: Lifestyle :: Accepted date: October 2021

Updated: 28 Oct, 02:2102:21

• Bomb Discovered in Sembabule Forest, Detonated

  27 Oct 2021, 20:03 Comments 196 Views Sembabule, Uganda Security Business and finance Lifestyle Updates

  Children who had gone to collect firewood saw the unexploded rusty bomb which had been abandoned for some time, and took it to the butcher a butcher who started using it to weigh meat as his three quarter kgs stone, having found it to measure exactly "half and a quarter" (750 grammmes) until one day when a keen customer saw it and quickly reported to the authorities.

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• Rampant Drowning in Seasonal Water Bodies Worry Aswa Region Police

  27 Oct 2021, 16:53 Comments 232 Views Lifestyle Human rights Security Report

  Since April 2021, at the onset of heavy rains in the region to date, police has recorded 10 cases of death arising from drowning due to torrential rains that increased the water volumes.

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• Lack of Sexuality Education Fuelling Teenage Preganacy in Rakai

  25 Oct 2021, 15:50 Comments 249 Views Rakai town, Uganda Education Health Lifestyle Updates

  A survey by Reproductive Health Uganda found out that more than 2,093 underage girls were impregnated during the lockdown period.

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  Ezekiel Ssekweyama

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• Mudslides: Bududa Residents Refuse to Relocate

  23 Oct 2021, 10:04 Comments 374 Views Bududa, Eastern Region, Uganda Lifestyle Updates

  Amina Namwano, a mother of 10 and a resident of Busai Parish said the government should just come and see what people are going through instead of telling them to relocate.

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• Egypt Commits to Desilt, Clear Water Hyacinth from Kalungu Landing Site

  22 Oct 2021, 11:12 Comments 377 Views Environment Lifestyle Interview

  The landing site, which is located in Lukaya Town Council in Lwera wetland is the main fishing ground for Tilapia and catfish in the Kalungu district. But, it is currently clogged with heavy aquatic weeds, spreading over 200 meters into the lake.

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  Ezekiel Ssekweyama

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• Marriage in Uganda is Under siege -Justice Bamugemereire

  21 Oct 2021, 15:14 Comments 369 Views Mukono, Uganda Education Lifestyle Editorial

  She advised that parents to stop depending on government and schools from raising their children but to go back on the drawing board and sit down as parent with other community members to come up with ways to help raise a good generation.

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• Bududa Residents Flee Homes As Mudslides Wreak More Havoc

  21 Oct 2021, 12:44 Comments 293 Views Bududa, Eastern Region, Uganda Lifestyle Updates

  The mudslides, which occurred yesterday at 10 pm got most of them in their houses only to see mud flowing around and within their houses forcing them to run from their homes.

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• Pictorial: Christians Mark 103rd Anniversary of Martyrdom of Daudi Okello and Jildo Irwa Top story

  20 Oct 2021, 12:46 Comments 566 Views Agago, Uganda Northern Lifestyle Religion Slideshow

  The District Covid-19 Taskforce headed by the Resident District Commissioner Suzan Akany Tuesday directed the suspension of prayers at the martyr’s shrine to curb the spread of Covid-19.

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• Two Held for Theft of Electricity Transmission Cables Worth UGX 25M Top story

  20 Oct 2021, 11:50 Comments 538 Views Crime Lifestyle Report

  David Kamugisha, the project administrator reveals that they embarked on the two-year project in September last year. He explains that despite starting the project late, they expected to complete the works by December 2021.

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• Four Hotels Face Probe for Violating COVID-19 Control Measures

  18 Oct 2021, 19:45 Comments 288 Views Kabale, Western Region, Uganda Health Security Lifestyle Updates

  Security and health officials argue that the hotels work normally during the day by serving food and soft drinks, but change the business into dancing clubs under the cover of darkness. Monalisa Lounge and Little Liz Hotel's reportedly play loud music at night and operates bars, despite the continued closure of bars.

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• Teenage Mothers Overwhelm Medical Camp at Bunjako Landing Site

  18 Oct 2021, 11:09 Comments 342 Views Buwama, Uganda Health Lifestyle Interview

  The Maternal and Child Health Community Outreach, organised by the Rotary Club of Lugogo Mango Tree and Bunjako Health Centre III was targeting to give services to at least 200 mothers. But it attracted more than 500 people, largely teenage mothers from the landing sites of Katebo, Ssenyondo and Misanvu, and Bunjako island.

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• MPs Want Mudslide Victims Resettled In Bududa

  17 Oct 2021, 11:48 Comments 438 Views Bududa, Eastern Region, Uganda Lifestyle Updates

  Agness Nandutu, the Bududa woman MP and state minister for Karamoja affairs said resettling the people of Bududa in faraway places will not help them because they are used to their fertile areas where they can practice farming, adding that people were relocated to new environments where their productive farming skills and culture could not be applied like Kiryandongo and Bunambutye.

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• Rwenzururu Kingdom Loyalists Kick-Off Coronation Anniversary Activities

  15 Oct 2021, 15:59 Comments 334 Views Kasese, Uganda Tourism Lifestyle Updates

  This is the first time the institution is celebrating its coronation anniversary since the arrest of Mumbere. Mumbere is currently facing treason, terrorism and murder charges arising from the November 27, 2016, military attack on his palace which left more than 100 people killed.

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• Mudslides Wreck Havoc in Bulucheke Sub County

  14 Oct 2021, 10:34 Comments 336 Views Bududa, Eastern Region, Uganda Lifestyle Updates

  Joseph Nasaba, the LC I Chairperson of Nakhatore village, says that there are no human casualties. He says that he heard land sliding downwards and later confirmed mudslides had hit the area. He has asked the government to come to their rescue because they have lost all their crops.

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• Gov’t Yet to Gazette Bunyole Cultural Leader

  12 Oct 2021, 14:53 Comments 261 Views Butaleja Town council, Butaleja-Mbale Road, Uganda Lifestyle Updates

  Wesana, a professor of Linguistics at Kabale University was elected the first cultural leader of the Banyole cultural institution in September 2019.

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• Pictorial: Excitement As Minister Flags Off Repatriation of 2300 Burundi Refugees Top story

  12 Oct 2021, 12:23 Comments 707 Views Isingiro, Uganda Human rights Lifestyle Updates

  At least 350 refugees left for Burundi by road through Tanzania on Sunday. They join 256 refugees who left Uganda last week and 231 who were airlifted to Bujumbura in December last year.

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• Rwenzururu Finally to Mark Coronation Anniversary 5 Years Since Mumbere's Arrest

  10 Oct 2021, 17:31 Comments 472 Views Kasese, Uganda Tourism Lifestyle Updates

  But the Kingdom prime minister, Joseph Kule Muranga told URN that they have been instructed by the cultural leader to organize events that will make the 55th coronation anniversary.

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• Bududa Residents Live in Fear of Fresh Landslides

  10 Oct 2021, 13:38 Comments 389 Views Bududa, Eastern Region, Uganda Lifestyle Updates

  Emmanuel Wamoto, a resident of Sume Village and survivor of the 2018 landslides, says they spend sleepless nights since heavy rains started for fear of fresh landslides and floods.

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• Family of Monsignor Kyabukasa, Cardinal Wamala, Bro Aidan a Living Legacy to the Church Top story

  10 Oct 2021, 11:14 Comments 902 Views Masaka, Uganda Religion Lifestyle Updates

  Bishop Severus Jjumba, Ordinary of Masaka Catholic diocese, was coincidentally admitted to Bukakalasa Minor Seminary by Monsignor Kyabukasa, whom he describes as a great instructor who had rare attributes of humanity.

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  Ezekiel Ssekweyama

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• Why Parents Are Losing Control Over Their Children Top story

  10 Oct 2021, 08:30 Comments 566 Views Kampala, Uganda Lifestyle Human rights Education Feature

  Amitu explains that being a parent has never been easy. She, however, says that parenting has become a nightmare during the unprecedented long school closure.

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