News

Day Two of ID issuance hits a snag

Reporter | December 4, 2014

ID registration at a registration center The issuance of National IDs may have been launched early this week but it has not started in many parts of Kampala. In several parishes visited by KFM today, most of the people who had turned up to pick their cards were sent away. […]

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Churches infiltrated by quark pastors

Reporter | December 4, 2014

Born Again leaders are lamenting over the increasing infiltration of their churches by false prophets and pastors. Across the country, only 4500 churches are registered under the Born Again Faith. Addressing the media in Kampala today, the Presiding Apostle of the Born Again Churches, Dr Joseph Sserwadda says there has […]

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Kenya releases traders’ goods

Reporter | December 4, 2014

Kacita chairman, Everest Kayondo Kenya has yielded to pressure from Ugandan authorities to release withheld goods at the Mombasa port. Traders can now collect their containers from Mombasa port after the Kenyan authorities accepted to release the over 100 containers, after Kenya Revenue Authority asked the traders to pay all […]

Health News

Adopt palliative care in Uganda-health providers

Reporter | December 4, 2014

Care providers in the health sector have expressed worry over the declining use of palliative care amongst HIV/AIDS patients. The Clinical Director at Hospice Africa Uganda, Dr. Eddie Mwebesa says even though several organisations have adopted this service, most communities have not warmed up to it. Palliative care is specialized […]

Business News

UMEME proposes new tariffs

Reporter | December 3, 2014

Large scale manufacturers could have reason to smile if proposals to have electricity tariffs are approved by government. Electricity distribution company, UMEME, in its annual tariff review for 2015 application proposes that large industrial consumers should pay Shs 306.7 per unit, down from Shs308.5 which they currently pay. UMEME’s General […]