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IGANGA MUNICIPALITY – Residents of Nkono ward, in Northern division, in Iganga municipality are in shock after one of their own, 25-year-old Rachel Basilika, a mother of one week old baby boy, was on Friday afternoon electrocuted at her home. Reports indicate that Basilika was electrocuted while airing her baby’s beddings on metallic clothing lines outside her house. According to ...

SERERE DISTRICT: The international fisheries day celebrations started early for the fish farmers is Serere. This followed the decision by the government to extend financial support to them worth shs70m. The funds will be received in fingerlings worth shs40m on top of three fish ponds that will be constructed at a cost of shs30m. Yesterday, Akure fish farmers in Kamusala ...

The deputy Speaker of Parliament, Hon Thomas Tayebwa, has come out to blast all reckless motorists who have largely contributed to road accidents. Tayebwa’s remarks were more directed to Subaru and Golf car drivers. And we all know how this group drives recklessly. In fact even memes have been made out of them about how they feel as if they ...

The new Twitter boss Elon Musk, has revealed that starting next week, the social media platform will provide a “general amnesty” to some suspended accounts. The development followed a poll on Wednesday asking users if accounts that didn’t break the law should come back. Mr. Musk has already reinstated several accounts such as that of former US President Donald Trump. ...

The M23 Rebels said on Thursday that a ceasefire announced a day earlier “doesn’t really concern us,”. This was while calling for “direct dialogue” with Democratic Republic of Congo’s government. “M23 has seen the document on social media… There was nobody in the summit (from M23) so it doesn’t really concern us,” Lawrence Kanyuka, political spokesman for the M23 (March ...