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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...