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While in Ankole, president Museveni said Infrastructural developments like; Roads, electricity, Hospitals is wealth for all of us, but poverty is for you alone. How then do you get yourself and the people of your household out of poverty using the different avenues and infrastructure the government has put in place? Let us stop working for only our stomachs, abandon ...

A man identified as Obonyo Ronald from Apac district who had gone to join the Local Defence Unit (LDU) passed away on Friday after a compulsory fitness test exercise of a 10 kilometer run, which all recruits have to go through. Check also: 19 Youth Collapse During LDU Training In Soroti Obonyo collapsed and died minutes after completing the physical fitness ...

At Kakyeka Grounds in Mbarara, president Museveni interacted with leaders from the Greater Ankole region, telling them that despite official figures showing 11% of the people there living below the poverty line, the actual numbers could be higher. These “rosy” figures are because statisticians use indicators like calorie intake, access to safe drinking water, ability to access education etc, which ...

On Wednesday evening, a primary 5 pupil of Budo Junior school collapsed and died in a swimming pool at Mugwanya Preparatory School, where they were taken together with many other children to have fan. Check also: Safaricom CEO Bob Collymore Dies At 61 According to the school authorities, Lawoko Innocent died shortly being admitted at Rubaga Hospital in Kampala. The head ...

Business Tycoon Patrick Bitature has refuted reports that his businesses benefited from an offshore arrangement to lower his tax bill in Uganda. Recently, leaked documents from Mauritius showed that Bitature and his company Electro-Maxx Uganda Limited received loans from Africa Frontier 1 LLC, a company based in Mauritius. The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists received the documents, from which Daily ...