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Cristiano Ronaldo became the first man to score at five World Cups on Thursday after opening the scoring in Portugal’s World Cup clash with Ghana. The 37-year-old set the record when he smashed home a penalty in the 65th minute. This was at the 974 Stadium in Doha to give Portugal the lead in the Group H clash with the ...

Kampala, Uganda | NEWSLEX POINT | Health Minister, Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng has asked health workers deployed in the Ebola treatment unit in Mubende district who are agitating for payment to be a little more patient and not threaten them with striking. Without giving exact dates of when the money will come through, Dr. Aceng said health workers need to ...

Foxconn, an Apple supplier, has apologized for a technical error in its payment systems. The apology comes a day after angry protests rocked the supplier’s factory in China. Hundreds of workers were seen marching at the world’s biggest iPhone factory in Zhengzhou city. The workers had complaints over Covid restrictions and overdue pay claims. The live streamers revealed that some ...

A primary school teacher, Tumwesigye Michael, from Kebisoni Integrated Primary School has been swallowed up by floods. The incident happened in Rukunjiri district at Mineera bridge in Rwankoma village. Tumwesigye’s body has not yet been found but he is believed to have drowned due to the flooded bridge. He lived in Migyera village in the sub-county of Nyarushanje. Apparently, Kebisoni ...

National Unity Platform front woman and Kampala Woman Member of Parliament, Shamim Malende, is apparently critically ill and hospitalized in the Intensive Care Unit at the Aga Khan Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya. Family members flew Malende out to the Nairobi hospital on Saturday last week. This was after her condition deteriorated at the Uganda Martyrs Hospital in Lubaga Division, Kampala ...