Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1216 EAT on Saturday 25th February 2023 Emmanuel Omoding, son of the late Patrick Okabe has replaced his father as Serere County MP after winning the by-election held on Thursday.  Omoding, an independent candidate emerged winner of the hotly contested race with 15,638 votes, beating four other contenders. He…

Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1208 EAT on Saturday 25th February 2023. Mulago National Referral Hospital, Uganda’s largest hospital and home to Makerere University college of health sciences held a paediatric surgical camp recently in which 48 children with various conditions were operated on.   The hospital, from time to time, organises such camps to…

Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 2048 EAT on Thursday 23rd February 2023. NATO secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says the alliance has seen signs that China is considering supplying arms to Russia and warned Beijing against taking any move to provide military assistance to Moscow. The comments on Thursday came days after US Secretary of State…

Updated at 2016 EAT on Thursday 23rd February 2023. Mbarara district senior physical planner Julius Lucky has been approving building construction plans in the Bwizibwera-Rutooma town council without conducting field visits, the district public accounts committee has learned.  Lucky appeared before the committee chaired by Herbert Kamugisha, which is following up on audit queries in the reports for the third…

Updated by Nakayima Ritah at 1607 EAT on Wednesday 22 February 2023. A 53-year-old man from Düsseldorf, Germany who was equally HIV positive has remained HIV-free 10 years after receiving a stem-cell transplant for cancer.  According to the latest report published in Nature Medicine and discussed by scientists attending the annual Conference on Retroviruses and…

Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1554 EAT on Wednesday 22 February 2022. Isaac Ssenabulya, the self-confessed murderer of former social worker, Maria Nagirinya and her driver, Ronald Kitayimbwa has been sentenced to 40 years in jail.  High court criminal division judge Isaac Muwata announced the sentence today Wednesday morning, a day after Ssenabulya pleaded guilty…

Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1522 EAT on Wednesday 22 February 2023. The release on bail of Kawempe North Member of Parliament Muhammad Ssegirinya and his Makindye West counterpart Allan Ssewanyana last week by High court at Masaka has drawn as much controversy as their dramatic arrest in 2021. Their freedom has raised pointed…

Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 10:26 EAT on Tuesday 21st 2023. The completion of the new Kabaale international airport in Hoima hangs in a balance after the contractor laid down tools citing a lack of funds.   The contractor, a joint venture of Israeli-British firms, Shikun & Binui International (SBI/Colas Limited) halted the construction works…