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The late Metropolitan Jonah Lwanga is set to be laid to rest on Monday next week according to an announcement by the Orthodox Church. Sylvester Kisitu, the Gulu and Eastern Uganda Orthodox Bishop made the announcement at a press conference on Wednesday.According to Bishop Kisitu, Lwanga’s body will arrive in the country from Greece on Saturday morning. He confirmed that ...

President Museveni is today expected to speak as the guest of honor of prayer ceremony organized by Pastor Kayanja. They named it the world prayer day and day of atonement. Pastor Kayanja has been running a conference since the beginning of this month and today will be the grand finale. President Museveni is going to be the main speaker today ...

Uganda after independence saw the rise of cooperatives which would later become a household name among farmers. With them, farmers did not have to worry about the prices of their farm products. Almost every region had a cooperative society to which a farmer belonged. Then came Uganda’s post-independence crisis of the 70s and 80s which saw the economy crash. This ...

Members of the Afghanistan national girls football team have fled across the border into Pakistani dressed in burqas. This has happened a month after the hardline Taliban swept back into power according to officials from the country. Last month, the group of junior players and their coaches and families had tried to escape the country but in vain. A devastating ...

Kampala City Council Authority (KCCA) is today meeting to table a motion to rename a road in Kampala after the late BMK. KCCA’s executive secretary in-charge of works and physical planning Hakim Kiiza Saula, says that renaming a road after the late BMK would be the best way to honour him. The business man passed on last week leaving a ...