Orthodox Church In Uganda Gets a new Archbishop.

Updated at 2109 FEB 20th 2022. The orthodox church in Uganda has got a new Archbishop to replace the late Jonah Lwanga who died in September 2021. Archbishop Jonah Lwanga died at the age of 76  in Athens Greece and was buried at the orthodox headquarters of St. Nicholas Namungoona in Rubaga division. The replacement…

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China Helps Virus-Ravaged Hong Kong Build Isolation Units.

Updated at 1036 EAT on FEB 20th 2022. Construction crews from mainland China were helping Hong Kong build two temporary isolation facilities to house thousands of coronavirus patients on Sunday as a senior official declared the city “in full combat mode” Hong Kong. The crowded Chinese financial hub is in the throes of its worst-ever…

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High Court In Jinja Maintains Nadiope As Kyabazinga Of Busoga.

Updated at 1639 EAT on FEB 18 2022. Jinja high Court today ruled on the alleged illegality of the Kyabazinga of Busoga Kingdom, William Gabula Nadiope IV, in a case filed by the chief of Bulamogi, Prince Edward Columbus Wambuzi, shortly after the former’s election in September 2014. In the judgement read by the deputy…

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Russian military videos of the move spread on TikTok.

Updated on Friday 18/02/2022 at 1645 EAT. Russia has amassed more than 100,000 troops near the Ukrainian border. Moscow, Russia – On February 1, Igor, a middle-aged truck driver from Krasnodar posted a video on TikTok of a Russian military convoy cruising down a two-lane road in a rural area. The short clip has gathered a little…

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Hundreds evacuated from Olympia blaze off Corfu

Published by Faith Barbara Namagembe Updated on Friday 18/02/2022 at 1558 EAT. Greek officials said everyone on board was successfully evacuated from the ferry Greek and Italian boats rushed to evacuate 290 people on board a ferry that burst into flames near Corfu in the Ionian Sea. The Euroferry Olympia had left Igoumenitsa in Greece…

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Wile polio case identified in Malawi.

By Faith Barbara Namagembe Updated at 1240 EAT on 18 February 2022. Malawi has declared an outbreak of polio after a young child in the country’s capital, Lilongwe, developed the disease in the first case of the wild polio virus in Africa in more than five years. The strain found in the child in Lilongwe has…

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How Bishop David Kiganda Rose from Pineapple Seller to a Billionaire

In our special series on Senior Citizens, we profile Bishop Dr David Livingstone Kiganda- Ssalongo the Founder and Senior Pastor of Christianity Focus Centre Church, Mengo Kisenyi a Kampala City Suburb, Uganda. Updated at 1839 EAT on Thursday 17th Feb 22 HICGI News Agency Kiganda is also the General Overseer of more than 80 other…

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Uganda Railways Corporation owes NSSF Shs2.8 billion

Updated at 1915 EAT on FEB 17th 2022 Members of Parliament are concerned how Uganda Railways Corporation (URC) accumulated a debt of over Shs2.8billion in unpaid remittances to National Social Security Fund (NSSF). The MPs sitting on the Committee of Commissions, Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises (COSASE) made the observation while meeting officials from URC…

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