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Globally, Pay-tv has from time to time continued to evolve, a change which can be greatly attributed to the advancement in technology and the demand to serve a dynamic audience that seeks out for content that captures their interests and preferences when it comes to television entertainment. In early 2000, digital television transmission greatly increased in popularity coupled with other technological and broadcast developments that aided the transition from standard TV, to High definition TV, later paving ground for smart as well as internet TVs that we have today, enabling viewers have a wide range of offerings to choose from…
The Court of Appeal/Constitutional Court is set to handle two sessions simultaneously where a total of 63 civil and constitutional matters will be concluded in a fortnight. The cases to be handled consist of 26 Civil Appeals, 20 Constitutional Petitions and 17 applications. According to the cause-lists issued by the Acting Assistant Registrar Court of Appeal, Mary Babirye, the Civil Appeals will begin on Monday July 20 while the Constitutional Petitions will be handled from July 23. Justices Kenneth Kakuru, Hellen Obura, Stephen Musota, Christopher Madrama and Remmy Kasule will handle the Constitutional Petitions while Justices Geofrey Kiryabwire, Elizabeth Musoke…
The Deputy Commander Land Forces, Maj Gen Sam Kavuma, has launched training of Local Defence Unit Personnel starting with those of Lubaga Battalion. The launch took place today at Kakiri Barracks where all the personnel of the 10 Battalions of the LDUs operating in Kampala Metropolitan Policing (KMP) Area will undergo weeks of the refresher course. Maj Gen Kavuma hailed the LDUs for reversing the undesirable security situation that had prevailed in KMP such as robberies, kidnaps and economic sabotage on factories among others. “Records show that the LDUs have done great work in KMP. In the last six months…
Renewable and clean energy in its different forms has become a necessity in today’s developing world. One of the key indicators for development in any country or region is access to affordable and clean energy and has also been included among the global Sustainable Development Goals, at number seven (7). Despite provision of affordable modern energy and energy services being highly regarded as catalysts for economic development, improving people’s livelihoods, and promoting sustainable development, it has been noted that access to modern energy and energy services is limited in many developing countries. An estimated 1.3 billion people, approximately one-fifth of…
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has this afternoon affirmed how he still needs to stay in power for more 5 years. This was after he picked the ruling National Resistance Movement electoral forms to enable contest for the country’s top most office on the NRM ticket. Museveni was represented by his son in-law Karugire Edwin who doubles as his personal lawyer who picked the forms after paying UGX 20m as nomination fees for both positions. In related development, the NRM Secretariat has handed over the Party Membership register to the NRM Electoral Commission at a function held at the party headquarters…
Kenya has recorded the highest number of COVID-19 cases in a single day after 688 tested positive for the disease between Friday and Saturday. Kenya’s COVID-19 total tally now stands at 12, 750, said Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe, who addressed journalists during his tour of Embu County on Saturday, July 18. The 688 new infections were discovered in 4, 522 samples tested in the last 24 hours. Four hundred and twenty-five (425) of the new cases were discovered in male patients, whereas 253 were recorded among female patients. The youngest new patient is aged 7 months old, whereas the…
A middle-aged police officer has been arrested and quarantined after he was caught having sex with a female COVID-19 patient quarantined at the Agricultural Training Centre (ATC) in Busia. The ATC quarantine facility is usually guarded by three police officers and three prison warders around the clock. The centre admits COVID-19 patients from the Busia GK Prison and the neighbouring community. The two groups (inmates and ordinary citizens) are, however, kept in separate wards. At 10pm Thursday, one of the prison warders manning the facility, identified as Police Constable Emmanuel Ng’etich, began engaging a COVID-19 patient in a conversation. Another…
Former Makerere University researcher, Dr. Stella Nyanzi has joined the growing list of politicians seeking the endorsement of People Power, a political pressure group headed by musician and Kyadondo East MP, Robert Kyagulanyi. Nyanzi who is seeking to join Parliament as Kampala Woman MP surprised many when she turned up at the People Power headquarters in Kamwokya, near Kampala, for a process she concluded last week in the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party headquarters. Nyanzi said that her membership of the FDC does not affect her subscription to People Power since it is not a political party but a…
A study, which reveals that men are twice as likely to start a new business in the UK as women, has been used to shape UK government policy. The research, carried out by Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) experts in the UK for over 20 years, based at Aston Business School in Birmingham, consistently shows that for every 10 male UK entrepreneurs, there are fewer than five female entrepreneurs. The GEM findings have helped inform a UK government review in 2019, titled ‘The Alison Rose Review of Female Entrepreneurship’, which predicts that the entrepreneurial gender gap equates to over one million missing businesses. The report…
Dr. Morris Cerullo, world-renowned evangelist and founder of Morris Cerullo World Evangelism in San Diego, went home to be with his Lord on Friday evening, July 10, 2020 at the age of 88. I have personally attended Dr. Cerullo’s conference in Kampala and also listened to a good number of his teachings in the last few months. His teachings are sound and faith filled and indeed equip God’s army to be effective in these last days. Dr. Cerullo first visited Uganda for ministry in 1993 and left Nabagereka (Queen) of Buganda, Sylvia Nagginda, a born again Christian convert. Dr. Cerullo,…