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Pres. M7 Countrymen, Countrywomen and especially, the Bazukulu. Greetings. Some days have gone by while what President Trump calls “fake news” generators, especially the Monitor and their TV, the NTV, have been putting it out that our grandson, the indisciplined Bobi Wine, is gravelly ill, he cannot talk etc. They were putting it out that because of their “rough” handling of the MPs while arresting them, the Security forces could have done grievous damage to Bobi Wine. I decided to check with Army doctors because, being a disciplined Army, UPDF doctors always take precautions in such situations. Bobi Wine had…
By Nassiwa Hanifah The Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, has called on world leaders to pool efforts to draw solutions to challenges threatening global peace. Kadaga cited terrorism, human trafficking and mismanagement of state resources as drivers of insecurity. “As we have found out in the recent past, a conflict in one part of the world affects people in another part of the world. We need solutions to end threats to global peace,” Kadaga said. The Speaker made the call while addressing the 2018 Summit on International Cooperation for Sustainable Peace under the theme Importance of International Law for National…
Source BBC Kofi Annan, the former UN secretary-general who won the Nobel Peace Prize for humanitarian work, has died aged 80, international diplomats say. He “passed away peacefully on Saturday after a short illness”, the foundation named after him said on Saturday. Annan was the first black African to take up the role of the world’s top diplomat, serving from 1997 to 2006. He later served as the UN special envoy for Syria, leading efforts to find a peaceful solution to the conflict. In a statement announcing his death, the Kofi Annan Foundation described him as a “global statesman and…
UGANDA CANCER INSTITUTE TRAINS PERSONNEL IN CANCER REGISTRY By Our reporter The Uganda Cancer Institute today concluded a 5-day’s training for personnel in cancer registry and participants awarded certificates. In a bid to improve cancer services in the country, the Institute has taken on cancer registry as one of the key measures to improve service delivery. Presiding over the event, the Executive Director of the UCI, Dr. Jackson Orem applauded the participants for choosing to train in cancer registry stating that the skills they have acquired are unique and are tendered towards the Centre of Excellence. He also stated that…
Electoral Violence Affects NRM More Than Opposirion , Says Lumuba NRM Secretary General Rt. Hon Justine Kasule Lumumba has partly blamed the Wednesday loss in Arua Municipality by-elections on the violence caused by the opposition camps before and during polls. She has disclosed that such scenes of chaos scare away the women who constitute the majority voting population of the ruling party and give an edge to the defiant men in the opposition. “Violence during elections affects us more as it scares away the women after developing fear,” the Secretary General told a press conference at the party headquarters in…
Blame yourself for absence of ministers Gen.Moses Ali tells off Parliament By Our reporter The first deputy prime minister Gen Moses Ali has blasted Parliament for vetting incompetent ministers into office who shun parliamentary sittings and stall business in the house. This was after MPs led by Ibanda North legislator Guma Gumisiriza raised a procedural matter on absence of ministers in sitting which was inconvincing MPs who were raising a number of matters of national importance that required response. Lawmakers then put the deputy Premier on sword to explain why he can’t mobilise ministers to attend sittings as the Kalungu…
By Acaye Henry Lucy Hobbs(grand daughter of Dr. Denis Burkitt ) and family today visited the Uganda Cancer Institute To acquaint themselves with the place where their grand father made groundbreaking discoveries. They were able to visit the peaditric services at UCI. During this visit, the Executive Director UCI mentioned to them the intention of transforming the service to Dr. Burkitt children services. He also added that the artifacts of Dr. Denis Burkitt would be placed in the cancer Institute Mesuem. It is important to remember that Denis discovered a children’s Cancer which was named after him, that is Burkitt…
STORY( PARLIAMENT SENT A TEAMOF MPS IN GULU TO CHECK ON THE STATUTUS OF THEIR COLLEAGUES WHO WERE ARRESTED IN ARUA By Our reporter Parliament has sent a team of six-mps to Gulu for a fact finding mission on the status of the arrested and detained Members of Parliament as they face trial today 16th August 2018. This was after the First Deputy Prime Minister Gen Moses Ali, told parliament that the mps were not tortured as alleged on social media, but kyadondo east mp Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu was flown to Gulu Military Hospital for medical care and was now…
By Parliament Press The Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, has blocked the appointment of FDC’s William Nzoghu to replace Prof. Ogenga Latigo at the Pan African Parliament. In one of the several changes including the dropping of the Leader of the Opposition, Hon. Winfred Kiiza, in favour of Gulu district representative, Hon. Betty Aol, the Opposition designated Nzoghu to Midrand, South Africa, as one of Uganda’s five representatives to the continental legislature. The Speaker gave her ruling during the plenary sitting on Tuesday, 14 August 2018. Quoting from the Protocol that sets up the Pan African Parliament, the Speaker said…
Microsoft on Wednesday announced new artificial intelligence features and functionality for several of its flagship products and services, including Office 365, Cortana and Bing, at an event in San Francisco. Harry Shum, EVP of Microsoft Artificial Intelligence and Research, demonstrated some of the new capabilities Building on the progress the company has made in integrating AI over the past year, the new enhancements are designed to help users perform increasingly complex and complicated tasks. “AI has come a long way in the ability to find information, but making sense of that information is the real challenge,” said Kristina Behr, a…
A lot of people might have thought Oracle’s announcement of the autonomous database at last year’s OpenWorld and its subsequent release earlier this year were the whole story, but there’s a lot more, and Tuesday’s webcast featuring Larry Ellison was proof. Ellison must find his CTO role — since he handed the CEO reins to Safra Catz and Mark Hurd — to be stimulating and liberating at the same time. Being CTO gives Ellison the ability to be highly creative in a part of the industry that plays to his strengths. It’s a highly technical field where few septuagenarians make…
Alexa Raad is chief operating officer of Farsight Security, based in San Mateo, California. Farsight Security is a provider of real-time actionable Internet threat intelligence solutions. In this exclusive interview, Raad discusses methods of curbing cybercrime by tracking bad actors through the trails they leave in the domain name system. She also offers some encouraging advice to women and girls interested in breaking into the cybersecurity field. Farsight Security COO Alexa Raad Alexa Raad Chief Operating Officer Farsight Security TechNewsWorld: What is Farsight Security’s mission? Alexa Raad: We believe that everyone is entitled to a safer Internet, and so everything…
A group of Tinder founders and executives has filed a lawsuit against parent company Match Group and its controlling shareholder IAC. The plaintiffs in the suit include Tinder co-founders Sean Rad, Justin Mateen and Jonathan Badeen — Badeen still works at Tinder, as do plaintiffs James Kim (the company’s vice president of finance) and Rosette Pambakian (its vice president of marketing and communications). We’ve reached out to IAC for comment, as well as Pambakian, who’s served as our main contact at Tinder. We’ll update the post if we hear back. The suit alleges that IAC and Match Group manipulated financial…
Hormonal methods of birth control are considered safe for most people. But is there a limit to how long you can safely use birth control? Some people take the birth control pill for much of their adult lives without a break. Others use long-term hormonal contraception devices, such as intrauterine devices (IUDs), that can stay in place for several years. The safety of using long-term hormonal birth control may depend on a person’s risk factors, age, and medical history. Read on to find out the short-term and long-term effects of birth control. Short-term side effects woman holding birth control and…
An outbreak of fatal dancing fits among members of the same community, men suddenly gripped by the sickening fear of losing their genital organs, and teenagers having mysterious symptoms after watching an episode of their favorite TV series — these are all instances of what we often refer to as “mass hysteria.” overhead shot of crowd What is mass hysteria, and how does it manifest? We investigate. “They danced together, ceaselessly, for hours or days, and in wild delirium, the dancers collapsed and fell to the ground exhausted, groaning and sighing as if in the agonies of death. When recuperated,…