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18 April 2024, 2:26 pm
NSSF Tips Gulu University Students on Career Development and Financial Literacy
By Emmy Daniel Ojara Gulu On Wednesday, the National Social Security Fund sensitized Gulu University students with career development tips and financial management skills. This is part of the NSSF annual NSSF Career Expo initiative. It is an initiative through…
17 April 2024, 6:14 pm
Gulu-Nimule highway in sorry state
By Emmy Daniel Ojara Amuru Users are complaining about the sorrowful state of the Gulu-Nimule Highway. The road measuring 106 kilometers stretching from Gulu City up to Elegu Town Council connects Uganda to South Sudan was constructed at the tune…
17 April 2024, 5:57 pm
Northern Regional Cancer Institute set to start full operation
By Emmy Daniel Ojara Gulu The Northern Regional Cancer Institute will start full operation in June this year, the board of the Uganda Cancer Institute (UCI) has said. Construction of the facility which is worth 30 billion shillings started in…
17 April 2024, 5:21 pm
Thomas Kwoyelo starts defending himself in court after 14 years
By Emmy Daniel Ojara Gulu City Former Lord`s Resistance Army (LRA) fighter Thomas Kwoyelo has started defending himself for charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in northern Uganda. Kwoyelo, 49, has been in detention since 2009 following…
29 March 2024, 5:12 pm
Christians urged on unity, forgiveness during Easter
By Emmy Daniel Ojara Gulu Religious leaders have urged Christians to return to unity and break free from the bondage of sins during this Easter season. The clerics say that the trouble people face today is that they have too…
22 March 2024, 5:44 pm
Rt. Rev Raphael of Nebbi takes over Gulu Archdiocese as the new Bishop
By Emmy Daniel Ojara GULU The former Archbishop of Gulu Catholic Archdiocese, John Baptist Odama has been lauded for bringing peace and stability in war-torn northern Uganda. Odama`s twenty-five-year tenure as Bishop of Gulu Archdiocese officially ended today, Friday after…
14 March 2024, 1:34 pm
Scholarship excite girls in Nwoya as the number of boys in school dwindles
By Joyce Adokorach Ten girls in Nwoya district have received scholarship for 4 years to study o’ level starting 2024. The girls who sat for their PLE in 2023 passed in first and second grades and were selected for the…
28 August 2023, 7:34 pm
A Third of Commercial Sex Workers in Gulu City Married-Research
Dr. Bongomin elaborated that the study, conducted between February and March of this year, engaged 314 female commercial sex workers from 15 hotspots within Gulu City.
28 August 2023, 7:23 pm
Weightlifting to Tackle Mental Illness in the Northern Region
Jimmy Ocaka, a seasoned psychiatric nurse affiliated with Basic Needs UK in Uganda, an organization operating in conjunction with the Agago district health department, elucidates the tangible benefits of regular physical exercise on mental well-being.
24 August 2023, 6:06 pm
A ‘’Smile’’ to Manage Sickle Cell Disease
About 33,000 babies are reportedly born with the disease annually in Uganda.
However, 80 percent of these die before the age of five due to disease complications, while about 16 percent of early infant mortality in the country is attributed to the disease, according to the Ministry of Health figures.