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Insurer says fraud halted sh1.1b LC bicycle payment19 minutes ago

NIKO Insurance has reiterated that suspicions of fraud halted payment of sh1.1b that it undertook to pay as performance guarantee bond to Government in the supply of 70,000 bicycles meant for LC officials.....

KCCA debate: Lukwago, Musisi dash to House6 hours ago

Kampala Lord Mayor, Erias Lukwago, and KCCA Executive Director, Ssemakula Musisi,have dashed to Parliament over debate on KCCA report.....

MPs want NAADS board put in place9 hours ago

House agriculture committee has tasked the minister of agriculture to explain the delay in the formation of the NAADS programme board.....

Business

Shilling loses 0.47% in mid-morning trading8 hours ago

The shilling depreciated 0.47% against the greenback as demand continues to outstrip supply, trader’s note that the trend may carry on through the week....

Africa will not succumb to resource curse8 hours ago

A panel of experts has said Africa is set to take advantage of its natural resources for the benefit of its people. This is contrary to the thinking of pessimists who believe the continent will succu...

Sport

Micho appointed Uganda Cranes coach 7 hours ago

SERBIAN tactician Milutin 'Micho' Sredojevic has been unveiled as the new Cranes coach this afternoon at FUFA House in Mengo....

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Owor vows to improve Rugby 9 hours ago

THE newly elected Uganda Rugby Union (URU) chairman Andrew Owor has pledged to undertake major changes that will significantly improve... ..

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Entertainment

Catch BBA 7 highlights ahead of Season 8 launch this Sunday 6 hours ago

As Africa waits for the launch this Sunday of Big Brother The Chase, which is the eighth season of the AfricaMagic reality TV show, something meant to take fans down memory lane is underway already.....

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Africa better recognise DJ Aludah 1 day ago

Thank God I had not paid my tuition fees so I used the money to fly to Nairobi and join HomeBoyz Music Technology Academy where I enrolled in their Deejaying, Music Production and Sound Engineering c... ..

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Health

Uganda fails to hit maternal health target 15 hours ago

WITH barely two years left to the deadline for the realisation of the Millennium Development Goals (MGDs), Uganda is still short of meeting the target

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Education

13,000 Kasese pupils could miss school 15 hours ago

WITH the beginning of the second term hardly a week away, the fate of nearly 13,000 schoolchildren in Kasese hangs in balance following the destruction

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Lifestyle

Can’t men ever say sorry?9 hours ago

Joan Nanono, a 27-year-old housewife and mother of one daughter, says she has never heard her husband say sorry even when he is in the wrong. She is married to Peter Kasibante, 34, a businessman at N....

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Ibanda sold vegetables to build his house 9 hours ago

Wilson Ibanda, a resident of Buwagi village approximately 21kms from Jinja town built a four bedroom house with a spacious sitting room, dining room and three bedroom boy’s quarters from selling vege....

After 11 years in prison,I forgave my tormentors 1 day ago

On Friday, April 5, Patrick Zizinga got a new lease on life when Nakawa High Court set him free. He had spent 11 years locked up in Luzira Maximum Security Prison for a murder he did not commit.....

A parent’s worst nightmare 1 day ago

On March 5, 2011. I gave birth to my daughter. She was stillborn at 36 weeks. This is the most gut-wrenching heartbreak I have ever experienced.....

Opinion / Columnists

Let IMF help improve commercial agriculture

Meeting the International Monetary Fund delegation at State House Entebbe recently, President Museveni said a deliberate move is necessary to change the attitude of the people to adopt commercial agr

Ugandans must work to achieve Vision 2040

Patriotism, enshrined as a duty of every citizen in the 1995 National Constitution of Uganda, is fast coming home to perch – and breed.

Kenyatta, Ssekandi hail Rotary for fostering development in the region

Over the weekend, Rotarians from Great Lakes Region and the Horn of Africa thronged Kenya’s eastern Seaport Municipality of Mombasa to attend the 88th Special Rotary District Conference and Assembly.

Genetic modification in crops a natural process of survival

Naturally, living organisms with certain adaptable traits survive the harsh environment conditions to reach the reproductive stage and pass on their traits to the next generation.

Special Features

Do you really need eyeglasses? 1 day ago

Opticians around town are in the business of selling eyeglasses and as the Sunday Vision reporter reveals, most will do whatever it takes, even if it means convincing you that you have eye defects in

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World

Kenya omitted from Obama trip to Africa 10 hours ago

PRESIDENT Barack Obama will leave on a first African tour next month, visiting Senegal, Tanzania and South Africa, but bypasses his ancestral homeland Kenya

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Sites and Sounds of Uganda

Can we save Nakasero fort? 1 day ago

In the backyard of the imposing Hilton Hotel currently being constructed on Naka-o historical accounts, this fort was created in 1900 when Captain Frederick Lugard, who headed the Imperial British Ea

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