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Pressure on the government to find more covid-19 vaccines for Ugandans is intensifying as the previous batch will run out this week. By the end of May, the government transferred $11m (Shs 38.7b) to the United Nations Children’s Fund. This is for procurement of vaccines through COVAX.However, the 20% funded by Global Alliance for Vaccines and immunization (GAVI)/ COVAX has ...

Robinah Nabbanja, the newly appointed Prime Minister has assured the people that she has the necessary qualifications to serve the role. President Museveni appointed Nabbanja as designated Prime Minister on 8 June 2021. She has become the 11th person to take on the office of the Prime Minister since Uganda became independent in 1962. Nabbanja is also the first female ...

City tycoon Hamis Kiggundu has offered shs530 million towards covid 19 Vaccines procurement. He also challenged the private sector and corporate companies to support government is purchasing covid 19 Vaccines. “I wish to challenge my fellow business men and the corporate entities to allocate money in their Corporate Social Responsibility drives to contribute towards covid 19 Vaccines  purchase so that ...

National Unity Platform president, Robert Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine has responded to Museveni’s measure to employ children of the rich. Museveni said this during his first national address in this term. He said this is how he will do away with corruption in the country. However, in Kyagulanyi’s response, he says this is what Museveni has done for a long ...

A woman in her early thirties is alleged to have killed her husband in “self-defense”, mutilated his body, and fried his penis in soyabean oil in her frying pan. Police arrested the 33-year-old Dayane Cristina Rodrigues Machado in the Brazilian city of Sao Goncalo on Monday (June 7). According to reports, the police were called to the couple’s house in ...