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BY MARKO TAIBOT ADJUMANI: TUESDAY, MARCH 21, 2023 Airtel Africa in partnership with UNICEF and the government of Uganda has launched a five-year multi-billion digital education project at St Mary’s Assumpta girls boarding secondary school in Adjumani district. The program intends to connect 100 schools to the internet and enroll …
Read More »Use Computers to change your lives –Moroto Leaders
Friday 17 March, 2023 By Agustine Olule-Moroto Leaders of Moroto municipality and Moroto district have called upon the people of Moroto to wisely use the Municipal Public library which has been brought back to existence by MTN after donating computers.Speaking during the commissioning of the library at the municipal headquarters, …
Read More »ADJUMANI DISTRICT BEGINS CONSTRUCTION OF SH1.6 BILLION INTENSIVE CARE UNIT
BY MARKO TAIBOT ADJUMANI: WEDNESDAY, 15 MARCH 2023 Adjumani district local government has launched the construction of a multi-billion Intensive Care Unit (ICU) worth Shs1.6 billion. The facility constructed with funding from the World Bank under the Development Response to Displacement Impacts Project (DRDIP) will handle critical cases. Once completed, …
Read More »UNBS CERTIFIES EIGHT NILE NATURAL FRUIT PRODUCTS, ARUA JUICE FACTORY TO PROPEL PDM
BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU ARUA: WEDNESDAY, MARCH 08, 2023 The Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS) has approved eight product lines of the Nile Natural Fruit products, allowing the Arua juice factory to use the Uganda standards certification mark (Q-mark) on its labels. The Private Sector Foundation Uganda paid sh5m to …
Read More »Soroti University to host Nuclear Research
BY SUN PR OFFICE – Soroti Soroti University has been selected to be a Nuclear Reactors Research Centre. Out of the 9 Government of Uganda Public Universities visited, Soroti University emerged as the most suitable to host the training centre in the country. This was revealed during a meeting between …
Read More »UGANDA AMONG FIVE COUNTRIES WITH HIGHEST TB TREATMENT COVERAGE-WHO
BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU ARUA: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2022 Uganda is one of the five countries with the highest level of treatment coverage for tuberculosis (TB), the World Health Organisation has confirmed in its latest report. It joins China, Bangaladesh, Brazil and Zambia in that small league of countries to have …
Read More »PAKWACH RESIDENTS TURNING TO SOLAR AS ALTERNATIVE SOURCE OF ENERGY DESPITE SUPPLY, QUALITY CONCERNS
BY ACHORA GEOFREY PAKWACH: MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2022 In the rural communities of Pakwach district, adoption of solar power is slowly taking root, supplementing wood fuel and charcoal, the primary sources of household energy. Residents say this is because many private players in the solar energy sector are promoting the …
Read More »MINISTRY OF HEALTH INTRODUCES ADDITIONAL VACCINE DOSES FOR INFANTS
BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU ARUA: Wednesday, October 19, 2022 The ministry of health has introduced additional doses of vaccines for infants to be included in the routine immunization programs. The Permanent Secretary, Dr Diana Atwine, said starting this October the additional doses will include Hepatitis B dose at birth and injectable …
Read More »UNDERSTANDING THE LAND DISPUTE AFFECTING THE WADELAI IRRIGATION SCHEME IN PAKWACH
BY GEOFREY ACHORA PAKWACH: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2022 Forty-six kilometers north-west of Pakwach town along the Pakwack-Pawor-Arua road, the landscape was changing 12 months ago. Mushrooming office buildings, storage facilities, artificial reservoirs and dams and secondary water canals were turning a hitherto 1,000 hectares of underutilized land into what is …
Read More »MINISTRY OF HEALTH TO START INDOOR RESIDUAL SPRAYING IN WEST NILE
BY MARKO TAIBOT ADJUMANI: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2022 The ministry of health has set aside $26million (about sh93b) to start indoor residual spraying in the west Nile sub-region this month. According to records from the Ministry of Health, West Nile has a high malaria transmission with 80% of people with fever …
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