M7 Lauded on reforms to Improve Access to Quality Education in Uganda

By Earnest Benjamin Kivumbi – Updated at 2054 EAT on Friday 22nd March 2024 MUKONO- State House Senior Presidential Assistant on Special Duties, Phionah Barungi has lauded her boss President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni for setting reforms aimed at improving quality education in Uganda. In her remarks on Wednesday during the celebration of the National Career…

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Tinubu bans ministers, and officials from foreign trips for three months.

Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu will introduce a three-month ban on ministers and other government officials from going on publicly funded foreign trips. Mr Tinubu’s chief of staff said the move was prompted by the president’s “concerns about the rising cot of travel expenses” by public officials. The ban will take effect on 1 April. President…

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Pig kidney transplanted into living human for the first time.

Doctors have performed the first transplant of a genetically modified kidney from a pig into a living human, they announced Thursday. The four-hour surgery was performed Saturday at Massachusetts General Hospital, which was also the first hospital to perform a kidney transplant in 1954. The patient, Rick Slayman, a 62-year-old manager with the Massachusetts Department…

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French Senate rejects EU-Canada free trade deal.

France’s Senate on Thursday overwhelmingly voted against a free-trade agreement between the EU and Canada thanks to an unusual alliance in the upper house between left and right-wing opponents of French President Emmanuel Macron.  The Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement(CETA) has been in force provisionally since 2017 but requires ratification in all European Union member countries to…

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Ethiopian Bank has lost  $40 Million due to Computer Glitch.

Bank in Ethiopia lost a whopping $42 million due to a computer glitch wherein people were able to withdraw massive sums of money far beyond what they actually had in their accounts. The odd incident reportedly unfolded early Saturday morning when it was discovered that the Commercial Bank of Ethiopia was experiencing the peculiar technical…

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“Am  not responsible for Choas ln Senegal ” President Macky Sall .

Senegal’s president has told the BBC he does not regret delaying this year’s elections, a move that sparked deadly protests. Macky Sall said he did not make the decision alone – he was responding to concerns raised by parliamentarians. After a violent backlash, many feared the relatively stable nation was slipping into political crisis. But…

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Sudan risks famine without an immediate cessation of hostilities.

Civilians caught up in Sudan’s civil war have given graphic accounts to the BBC of rape, ethnic violence and street executions. Our journalists have managed to make it to the front line of the fighting close to the capital, Khartoum. Top UN officials have said the conflict has plunged the country into “one of the…

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US identifies Alabama soldier killed in WW2.

The US says it has identified the remains of an Alabama-born soldier nearly 80 years after he was killed fighting in Germany. The 26-year-old soldier, private first class Noah C Reeves, was killed by German forces near the town of Vossenack on 6 December 1944. Unidentified remains found in the area in 1948 and interred…

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