Stories :: Type: Breaking news :: Accepted date: September 2021
Updated: 25 Sep, 13:0313:03
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MP Ssewanyana Re-Arrested Outside Kigo Prison
24 Sep 2021, 07:55 Comments 461 Views Entebbe, Uganda Security Politics Crime Breaking newsErias Lukwago. Lukwago, Ssewanyana’s lawyer said that Ssewanyana's kidnap renders the court directive that he should be released on bail insignificant.
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Teachers to Conduct Remedial Teaching, Assessment When Schools Reopen
23 Sep 2021, 18:17 Comments 408 Views Kampala, Uganda Education Media Health Breaking newsDr Dennis Mugimba, the Education Ministry Spokesperson says that they are redesigning the school calendar to enable the learners undergo remedial studies for three months.
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Six Family Members Suffocate to Death In Nakasongola
21 Sep 2021, 23:09 Comments 479 Views Nakasongola, Uganda Crime Breaking newsAnyweine says that the six family members are believed to have died after suffocating as result of the smoke from charcoal stove.
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Businessman Francis Onebe Remanded over Wife's Murder
21 Sep 2021, 17:13 Comments 512 Views Kampala, Uganda Court Crime Breaking newsState prosecutor Lydia Nakato told the court that Onebe, 63 an accountant and Oriekot, 26, and others still at large in January 2021 at Mawanga zone LCI in Munyonyo, Makindye Division in Kampala district murdered Asio.
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One Arrested for Dropping Threatening Leaflets in Katabi
21 Sep 2021, 13:28 Comments 461 Views Kampala, Uganda Security Crime Breaking newsRuganda, a resident Mabirizi village in Masaka district was arrested following an intelligence-led operation in AbaitaAbabiri and Nkumba.
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Gov't Suspends Transfer of Teachers in Public Secondary Schools
20 Sep 2021, 18:49 Comments 544 Views Kampala, Uganda Education Media Breaking newsDr.Dennis Mugimba, the education ministry spokesperson says that the minister of Education and Sports Mrs Janet Museveni has instructed the authorities in the ministry responsible for the process to stop transfers with immediate effect and allow the education service commission to proceed with the verification exercise as soon as schools reopen.
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Court Dismisses Petition Against Lamwo Woman MP
20 Sep 2021, 18:42 Comments 239 Views Gulu, Uganda 2021 Elections Court Northern Breaking newsOn Monday, while reading the ruling Npalo Nasulu Hussein the Deputy Registrar Gulu High Court said that Lanyero`s petition lacked enough evidence.
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No Need To Benchmark, Just Go Vaccinate; Education Ministry To Ugandans
20 Sep 2021, 17:59 Comments 470 Views Kampala, Uganda Education Media Health Breaking newsSeveral educationists and some members of the public have been blaming and calling upon the government to emulate neighbouring countries that have been able to reopen schools for the learners even as the pandemic continues.
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Court Upholds Election of Kilak North MP
20 Sep 2021, 13:08 Comments 592 Views Gulu, Uganda 2021 Elections Politics Northern Breaking newsWhile delivering the ruling on Monday from the Gulu High Court, Npalo Nasulu Hussein the Deputy Registrar, Gulu High Court said that Ojera`s petition lacked substance. He dismissed the petition with costs.
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Two UPDF Soldiers Injured As Vehicle Rams into Train
16 Sep 2021, 14:38 Comments 657 Views Kampala, Uganda Security Crime Breaking newsThe soldiers were travelling in a land cruiser registration number H4DF2180. According to eyewitnesses, the soldiers were fleeing from angry boda-boda riders after knocking dead one person in Bweyogerere.
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LC Chairman, 12 Teachers Arrested for Operating School in Refugee Camp
16 Sep 2021, 13:45 Comments 505 Views Lamwo, Uganda Education Crime Northern Breaking newsAccording to Kidega, besides conducting lessons illegally, the teachers and pupils were not adhering to the COVID-19 standard operating procedures including wearing face masks, observing social distancing, hand sanitizing, with majority not vaccinated.
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Uganda Stops Rwanda to Finish 5th in African Volleyball Championship Top story
14 Sep 2021, 19:19 Comments 946 Views Kampala, Uganda Sport Breaking newsUganda’s impressive journey at the 2021 Men’s African Nations Volleyball Championship had earlier ended after a loss to Egypt on Saturday. The debuting Volleyball Cranes lost 3-1 to eight-time champions Egypt at the Kigali Arena to bow out of the tournament.
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Three Arrested Purchasing Baby for Suspected South Sudan Trafficker
14 Sep 2021, 15:32 Comments 627 Views Kampala, Uganda Human rights Crime Security Breaking newsOne of the detectives told URN that they raided the Motel hotel on a tip-off by a neighbour to one of the suspects indicating that some people were looking for a child to buy at Shillings 20 Million from Nansana and other areas.
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Strange Genital Disease Reported In Elegu Township
14 Sep 2021, 15:11 Comments 573 Views Amuru, Uganda Health Human rights Northern Breaking newsKassim Kule, the Elegu Township Local Chairperson told URN on Tuesday that the disease has been reported among both the young and elderly persons of all sexes. He disclosed that the disease makes one scratch themselves ‘’shamelessly’’ even among the public.
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Uganda Humbles South Africa's Prison Men Netball Team in International Opener Top story
14 Sep 2021, 14:56 Comments 720 Views Kampala, Uganda Sport Breaking newsThe first quarter ended with Uganda leading 28-0 before adding 18 goals to end the first half with 46-2. In the third quarter, Uganda added 21 goals to their scoresheet putting 67 -5 ahead of their opponents.
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Two Security Guards Arrested For Defiling 15-Year-Old Girl in Kampala
13 Sep 2021, 18:01 Comments 371 Views Kampala, Uganda Security Crime Breaking newsFred Enanga, the police spokesperson, has identified the two security guards as Hussein Otyeno attached to Security Group Africa and his colleague Vincent Tazanya of Protectorate-SPC who defiled a fifteen year old girl who was selling tea at around 11:00pm.
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Elephants Kill 40-Year-Old Man in Murchison Falls National Park
13 Sep 2021, 14:28 Comments 637 Views Nwoya District, Uganda Human rights Tourism Northern Breaking newsThe deceased was on a Bajaj motorcycle with his nephew Dick Ogwang when they rammed into the herd of elephants.
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Educationists Call for Teacher Retooling as Part of School Reopening Plan
13 Sep 2021, 13:47 Comments 817 Views Kampala, Uganda Education Media Breaking newsThe learners had been scheduled to return to school on June 7, 2021, a day before the government announced a second lockdown. Before this, hospitals had recorded an overwhelming number of patients, and hundreds of them had been reported from schools, sending the lower primary classes further into slumber.
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Residents of Elegu Township Petition Ecweru Over Flooding Top story
13 Sep 2021, 08:52 Comments 953 Views Amuru, Uganda Northern Human rights Business and finance Breaking newsResidents in the area say that they are currently living in fear of destruction and deaths due to the resurgence of heavy rains which started last month and have been accompanied by sights of floods.
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