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It's still of a concern that, the majority population of the World wallows in lack of information on baisc contents of Health, Science, Administrative Governance, Technology, Politics and much more. An uninformed population is actually blind and vulnerable to any breach or attack on his or her rights, health, education, etc etc. We have been and we shall continue to be committed in sensitising / educating the World (the public) on what needs to be learnt, known and done to make the World a better place for everyone to live. Having been inspired by Technology, Freelancing and the Quest to fight for Human Rights, we have in so many occasions since 2016, used this online News Platform ( https://osutayusuf.blogspot.com ) to write share Opinions and News articles as we defend the powerless people, the marginalized and the poor people whose rights and privileges have been under attack by some Governments / Countries, Powerful People in Government and some groups / organisations of unscr...

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A Ugandan journalist, Henry Wasswa Lumanyika is detained at Entebbe police station on charges of criminal trespass, after allegedly lodging and interviewing Afghan evacuees.  Wasswa, a senior correspondent with Deutsche Press Agentur (DPA), the German Press Agency was arrested on Thursday by security officers at Imperial Resort Beach hotel, a facility that is hosting the 51 Afghan evacuees who arrived in Uganda on Wednesday.  They are part of a group that is fleeing Afghanistan as the United States rushes to airlift thousands of people out of the country, after the fall of Kabul to the Taliban. According to sources, 60-year-old Wasswa booked and checked into the hotel on Tuesday night, a day before the evacuees arrived and paid $167 for his accommodation. At the time, there was no indication that the hotel was out of bounds for Ugandan nationals or any other visitors, even though its security had been heightened.  However, Wasswa's woes began after security officers with ...

So often when applying for something or ordering something online, there's that little annoying asterisk next to the cell phone number section of the contact details form, the asterisk that means providing your cell phone number is obligatory. For a variety of reasons, you may not want to leave your real number, or you may need to insert a number from a specific country and you simply don't have access to one. When that happens, and when the sending of an authentication code means you can't just invent some digits, you can always find  a fake cell phone number  online for free. Here, in this how to guide, we'll explain how quick and easy it is to find a cell phone number online, one that you can use for whatever you need and then completely forget about.  "vendors": { "criteo": {"NETWORK_ID": 1080, "LINE_ITEM_RANGES": "0..10:0.01;10..25:0.05;25..50:0.10;50..100:0.25"}, "ap...

Forget watercooler conspiracies or boardroom battles. There's a new war in the office. As companies nudge their staff to return to communal workspaces, many workers don't actually want to – more than 50 percent of employees would rather quit, according to research by EY. While HR teams worry over the hearts and minds of staff, IT security professionals have a different battle plan to draft – how to make the new normal of the hybrid workplace secure. The Trade-off Between Usability and Security A company's biggest vulnerability continues to be its people. In a hybrid workplace, a Zero Trust strategy means ever-tightening security. The MFA a company chooses affects the difficulty of logging into email, dashboards, workflow tools, client documentation, and so on. Or, conversely, how porous access security is. Now imagine this scenario. An employee opens a company portal, confirms a prompt on a company app on her phone, and that's it. She has been authenticated seamlessly b...

The residents of Maracha District today spent their day in jubilation as they witness official Handover of two Ambulances and launch of office by Woman MP Driwaru Jennifer. The event that was graced by RDC, the CAO,  MP Maracha County Hon Oguzu Lee, the LC5, District Security Commanders, Maracha East County MP Hon Ruth Lematia, the Clergy and some MPs from various Districts and Constituencies of Westnile region praised Hon Driwaru for been the first person in the Political history of Maracha District to sacrifice her own money to buy Ambulances to help her people of Maracha. When a memont of giving speech was offered for the invited MPs, Hon Oguzu Lee, the Maracha County MP used his session to appreciate and gave 1,000,000 Shillings cash for fueling of the Ambulances and he urged people of Maracha in their various capacities to also help by joining hands and faith together towards the concrete foundation Hon Jennifer has laid for the people of Maracha District. Watch and follo...

Google and Microsoft said they are pledging to invest a total of $30 billion in cybersecurity advancements over the next five years, as the U.S. government partners with private sector companies to address threats facing the country in the wake of a string of sophisticated malicious cyber activity targeting critical infrastructure, laying bare the risks to data, organizations, and governments worldwide. The White House cybersecurity meeting, which brought together executives from the education, energy, finance, insurance, and tech sectors, included companies like ADP, Amazon, Apple, Bank of America, Code.org, Girls Who Code, Google, IBM, JPMorgan Chase, Microsoft, and Vantage Group, among others. Stack Overflow Teams. To that end, the U.S. government on Wednesday announced a collaboration between the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and industry partners to develop a new framework to improve the security and integrity of the technology supply chain, alongside plans...

INFORMATION I AM ABLE TO GATHER ABOUT OUR BROTHER MR BUGA MATATA'S PREDICAMENT. (From very credible sources) 1. That RDC Buga Matata Officially handed Office to DISO Kole District claiming to have been transferred to Madi Okollo District. 2. RDC Buga Matata was given instructions to report to work in Kole District latest Thursday 26th August which he refused to honour. 3. RDC Buga Matata has been accused of collusion with commercial Officer of taking money for EMYOOGA. It is alleged that they add money on approved figures of groups that are then returned to them and shared in his Office. Money amounting to 40,000,000/= only is being alleged to have been collected from SACCOS. 4. LCV CHAIRPERSON has deep misunderstanding with Mr Buga Matata and is one of the main people inciting the people against Mr Buga Matata. 5. Locals have been arranged to move testimonies about the EMYOOGA money mismanagement allegedly by CO and Mr Buga Matata. Demonstrations were held to that effect. Accordin...

Marco forgot to ‘susu’ (to relive himself) before he embarked on his 9-hour journey. Along the way, he struck up a conversation with a fellow passenger who ‘was dressed as a priest. So, when they reached the first stop, he asked the passenger to look after his laptop bag and went to susu. Upon returning, he found the seat empty and no bag in sight. He was informed by other passengers that the father had reached his destination and had boarded a boda boda. Marco wants to know why the bus attendants allowed the father to steal his bag when they were responsible for its safety.  What does the law say?  By law, we have something that is referred to as duty of care. What a duty of care is, simply put, is a responsibility that is on certain persons in any transaction. For example, bus companies have a responsibility to transport their customers, together with their luggage safely and with skill up to their destination.  Does that mean that they would be responsible for your los...

Sande has been keeping a terrible secret. Even his wife could not get him to talk but she noticed that he has become very withdrawn and sensitive to anyone’s touch. The last time he spoke openly, he told her that he was going to meet an old female friend. She approached his best friend to find out if there was anything that Sande had mentioned. Bestie just told her that Sande gave him some story about rape, yet he knows that men cannot be raped. Sande’s wife wants to approach him, but she does not even know whether “male rape can even happen?”   WHAT DOES THE LAW SAY? The Penal Code Act says that rape in Uganda, is when a person has sex with a woman or girl. and in Section 123 it says that only “women and girls” can be raped. However, rape only happens when a person does not give their consent to sex. Since persons below 18 years cannot give their consent. It is called defilement if it happens to them. Therefore, the law has no mention of ‘male’ rape.  SO, WHAT DO WE CALL...

Hassan made the comments at a ceremony on Sunday to celebrate the victory of a national men's team in a regional football championship, where ironically she also called for better funding for women's sports.  'For those who have flat chests, you might think they are men and not women,' she said at Sunday's event. 'And if you look at their faces you might wonder... because if you want to marry, you want someone who is attractive, a lady who has the qualities that you want.'  She added that for the women footballers 'those qualities have disappeared'. Hassan, who took office in March after the sudden death of her predecessor John Magafuli, is the only current serving female head of state in Africa alongside Ethiopia's President Sahle-Work Zewde, whose role is mainly ceremonial. 'Today they are making us proud as a nation when they bring trophies to the country but if you look at their lives in the future, when the legs are tired from playing, w...

Northern popstar Bosmic Otim has lambasted former Aruu County Member of Parliament Odonga Otto for using the death of Maj Gen Paul Lokech as a campaign tool. Bosmic accuses Otto of using social media platforms WhatsApp, Facebook, and Twitter to spread messages pitying himself against Maj Gen Lokech as a persecuted and unjustly treated person. While he says it is understandable, Otim tells Otto to wait until the burial of Lokech is done so he can go ahead to campaign on the “grave of the dead man”. “Do not hunt for votes using a dead man’s name. You are not the first to lose an election and you will not be the last. Stop going around social media dragging the name of the late in your political campaigns,” Bosmic said in audio shared on social media. Following the death of Gen Paul Lokech, Otto released a missive in which he claimed to have been politically ‘bruised’ by the Deputy Inspector General of Police, who used his powers to condemn him to a loss in the previous elections. Otto na...

Magulu was involved in a car accident together with his best friend Miko. When they arrived at the hospital, Magulu was informed that Miko might lose his life if he did not get blood quickly. Magulu immediately consented to give his blood since it was the same as Miko’s. He was informed that they would also carry out an HIV test before taking his blood which got him wondering if they could have tested his blood without his consent.  WHICH PEOPLE MAY BE IDENTIFIED AS INCAPABLE OF GIVING CONSENT TO HIV TESTING?  The law requires that a person who gets an HIV test must give his/her consent for the test to take place. However, the law, (Section 10 of the HIV and AIDS Control Act 2014) also allows for tests to be carried out on certain people who are incapable of giving permission. For example, unconscious people, people who are mentally unsound, minors or children, people suffering from a sickness that makes them incapable of giving consent to an HIV test.  WHO MAY GIVE CONSE...

Archbishop Cyprian Lwanga A prominent politician or army general in Uganda is more likely to die of a blood clot than say an accident, our informal research shows. And the latest individual to join the club of those who have succumbed to the notorious blood clots is deputy inspector general of police, Maj Gen Paul Lokech. Lokech, according to official police statement died as a result of a clot which resulted from an injury he sustained from his bathroom. But what are blood clots and why are they so lethal? According to various medical sources, blood clots are differently sized clumps of blood that form inside our bodies. Scientists say clotting is important to prevent excessive bleeding if you are injured or cut. However, when a blood clot blocks blood flow to important areas of your body, it can be harmful, even deadly. According to medical sources, there are two different types of blood clots. These include clots that stay in place and don’t move (thrombosis) and those that break aw...