6 OCLOCK NEWS UPDATE WITH Orange Makerere University has confirmed an increment in the graduation fees from Shs 90,000 to Shs 220,000. The university Vice Chancellor Prof. Dumba Ssentamu says the decision was based on the increased cost of operation especially in printing the certificates and transcripts. ………………………………………………… Police has confiscated the two pigs painted yellow that were dumped at the entrance of Makerere University this morning in protest of the despicable corruption in the country. Unknown persons who later disappeared delivered the pigs in a box and dumped them at the campus. Police has taken the pigs at Wandegeya police station and investigations have commenced to establish the culprits responsible for this incident. …………………….. Surveillance has been heightened at Lacor Hospital in Gulu district after a suspected Marburg case was admitted at the facility. Hospital director, Dr Cyprian Opira says the suspected person has been put in isolation unit for close supervision as they await test results from the Uganda Virus Research. . …………………………………………………….. The Ministry of Internal Affairs has started a pilot exercise that will see use of e-passport rolled out in the country. This was revealed at the launch of a two-day consultative meeting in Mukono District on the implementation of the project yesterday. ………………………………… NRM supporters in the Elgon region have been asked to shun former Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi. While meeting Manafwa district NRM delegates, the government Chief Whip Justine Kasule Lumumba said Mbabazi is bad influence to the members. ………………………. Former Forum for Democratic Change (FDC)leader Dr. Kiiza Besigye has scoffed at President Museveni for calling for withdrawal from the International Criminal Court (ICC). Speaking during the Independence Day celebrations recently Museveni asked African leaders to review their membership to the Hague-based court after it summoned his Kenyan counterpart Uhuru Kenyatta over allegations of international crime. ………………………………. Mabirizi complex has been closed as the family battles over alleged mismanagement of the estate by heir, Stuart Mabirizi. Stuart, heir to Godfrey Mabirizi who died at the beginning of this year leaving behind 2 wives and 10 children has mismanaged the complex with his sister Evelyn Namale Mabirizi saying the family has an outstanding debt of 33billion shillings in loans. Traders who rent shops in the building on Kampala road have had their businesses paralyzed. ……………………. Makerere University School of Public Health has trained 200 doctors to combat the Ebola virus in the country. Although the ministry of health had earlier said the country was free of Marburg- a hemorrhagic viral disease in the same league with Ebola and that only precautionary measures were being taken, yesterday, the ministry said the country is not yet free of Marburg though new cases have not been confirmed. ……………………… THE NEWS IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY ORANGE Talk and Tokota for 24 hours at only 1,000/= with Tokota Unlimited from Orange. Simply dial *134# to subscribe and talk day and night for just 1,000/=. Banging KB changes with Orange. Today changes with Orange.
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