If you are a mobile data user, it is apparent that from the time you wake up until the time you go to sleep, you do quite a number of things online. And now, with the latest repackaging of the MTN daily data bundles, you can do twice as much using your mobile data for the same old prices. This year, MTN set a downward trajectory for data pricing by repackaging its data bundles to offer customers up to 100% more data on the most popular daily bundles at the same old prices. Somdev Sen, MTN Uganda’s Chief Marketing Officer,…
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The family of Second Deputy Prime Minister and Deputy Leader of Government Business in Parliament Gen Moses Ali, has come out to reassure the public about his health. The family on Saturday morning said that contrary to the wild speculations on social media, the 82-year-old is in good health. The speculations were sparked by a video clip from Friday’s election event of the Speaker of Parliament at the Kololo Independence Grounds in Kampala, wherein the general appeared unwell. In the clip from the national broadcaster UBC TV, Gen Ali is seen sitting uneasily in the front row of the MPs…
“A 35yrs old woman was closed inside a chicken house and chopped with a sharp knife in the neck over 3times by a family member after poking her nose into land matters at their late father’s residence along Ham Mukasa road in Entebbe municipality. Four family members were arrested and breathing behind bars after plotting the murdering of their own relative three months ago. The family members were arrested after brutal killing of one Natongo Beatrice Kitaata along Ham Mukasa road on the 18th December 2021. “It’s was around 3pm when the deceased was found bleeding after being stabbed dead inside a chicken…
From a humble background to business mogul to managing the national vessel and started business as a young man after his high school journey and kept on developing different business ideas. He has turned a house hold name with several different businesses including managing the MV Kalangala ferry under the Nation Oil distributor limited. Mr. Musoke Sadala started investing in different businesses after his education journey at the Cambridge University (London) and after university, Musoke landed his first job and worked to his best before cracking business with government. He gained a lot of working experience in human resource and…
The Executive Director of Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA) Allen Kagina yesterday disclosed that they are in advanced stages of digitizing toll payment on the Kampala-Entebbe Expressway (KEE). She made these remarks on while presenting UNRA’s Half Year (2021/22) Performance Report. “Contracts for the provision of payment platforms for Kampala – Entebbe Expressway (KEE) including Airtel Money, Mobile Money were reviewed and cleared by the Solicitor General so that you can top up your card without having to go the plaza (booth),” Kagina said. This development follows a significant jump in the number of road users plying the 51.4 kilometer…
By Dr. Anna Grace Awilli (BVM) Many farmers and animal owners express a lot of frustration regarding access to veterinary services and veterinarians are hard to find. Even when many farmers who are willing to pay for the service of a veterinarian, they often find themselves victims of masquerading quacks instead. These quacks, whose actions have greatly tarnished the name of the veterinary profession, prescribe unproven treatment regimens, a common trick being to administer several medicines with the hope that one or two will hit the target and cause recovery. By sheer luck, they often do recover while seemingly harmless…
Police in Lamwo on Friday arrested one Catherine Akello, a 34-year-old health worker at Lukungu Health Center III who is alleged to have defiled a patient in her care. Akello is said to have committed the crime last year and has been on the run ever since. She was picked up by police at Lamwo District Headquarters where she had turned up for a workshop. Police says on October 12th last year, between 7: 30 and 8pm, while at Lukungu Health Center III Staff Quarters, the suspect took a 15-year-old patient to the bathroom where she allegedly defiled him. Area…
President Museveni has met a group of 91 youths, formerly supporters of National Unity Platform (NUP) political party, who have been undergoing mindset change and leadership training at the Institute of Security and Intelligence Studies. According to Col. Charles Oluka, the Director General of Internal Security Organisation (ISO), part of the 91 were commanders of different NUP youth-led groups who took part in the November 2020 riots and demonstrations around Kampala during and after the electioneering period. While briefing the President, Col. Oluka said the group was taken through political education and ideology training including the NRM ideological pillars of…
It’s now official that travelers to Kalangala islands have a reason to smile with another privately owned passenger water vessel underway. The MV NODL Victoria is yet to be launched and will operate alongside the existing MV Kalangala which the government acquired in 2005. According to Mr Sadala Musoke, the Executive Director of National Oil Distributors Ltd (NODL), a firm that manages MV Kalangala, the new vessel has modern facilities with capacity to carry 200 passengers. “The storied facility has latest state-of-the-art technology and luxurious with an executive lounge. Our clients will receive high-class services only comparable to those offered in…
President Yoweri Museveni has Friday joined his voice in the praising the works and contributions of the deceased former Bank of Uganda Governor, Prof Emmanuel Tumusiime Mutebile who passed away last Sunday. Museveni hailed the fallen Governor for enriching the economic ideas of the then new NRM government in the 1980s, and helping put Ugandan’s economy back on track. The President, while speaking at the national morning of Mutebile at Kololo in Kampala, commended the former governor and his team with whom they worked at the time in the Ministry of Finance, for enriching the NRM’s 10-point program with their…