Museveni to fund Makerere perimeter wall

Kampala. 
President Museveni has promised to build a perimeter wall around Makerere University campus to curb insecurity at the country’s oldest university.

“We shall take it up with the Ministry of Education to build a perimeter fence around the university, though this may not be done this year since we have already budgeted. But next year we shall ensure the fence is constructed,” Mr Museveni said at the closing of the counter-terrorism and security awareness week at the university campus on Friday.

He was responding to an appeal by the university’s guild president, Mr Ivan Bwowe, who told the President the institution was vulnerable to terror attacks because of unrestricted access to the campus which hosts more than 40,000 students.

Vulnerable
Mr Bwowe said the university has more than 15 outlets and lacks a perimeter wall which makes the surveillance quite difficult.
Early last year, police issued alerts, saying Makerere had been made a target by terrorists who had planned to bomb the university as students sat their final exams at that time.

In May, police said they had received information that some terrorists had promised a student from the university’s College of Computing and Information Sciences a down payment of Shs15m for his tuition fees if he planted a bomb in one of the blocks during examination time.

The Inspector General of Police, Gen Kale Kayihura, last week organised a counter terrorism security awareness week at the university.

Gen Kayihura asked the students and other stakeholders to be vigilant and report any suspected terrorist.
The force carried out presentations on community policing and demonstrations during the week

British woman finds eggs of the world’s most poisonous spider in her shopping

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Tesco have apologised after a British woman discovered eggs from the extremely poisonous Brazilian wandering spider on some bananas she bought in the store.

Abby Woodgate from Essex first thought a white lump of mould was growing on the fruit, but when she poked it with a toothpick, a cocoon opened to reveal dozens of eggs.

She threw the fruit in the bin, but some eggs had dropped on the kitchen floor. She hoovered them up and called Tesco to complain.

The company sent pest control experts to her home, who told her she’d have to burn anything that came in contact with the eggs (including her bin and vacuum cleaner). Burn EVERYTHING, we say.

A spokesman for Tesco told Drive Hot News.

Fun fact: The venom of the Brazilian wandering spider is being studied for use in treatments for erectile dysfunction, as its bite can often cause an erection that lasts for up to four hours.

You learn something new every day, eh?

Hostel Owner 'Filmed Himself Abusing Tourists'

Hostel Owner 'Filmed Himself Abusing Tourists'

The owner of a backpacking hostel in New Zealand is accused of drugging and sexually assaulting young male guests, while he filmed the attacks.

Michael Harris, 56, who owns Mainstreet Lodge in the North Island town of Kaitaia, was charged with 39 offences against 16 men, aged 18-25, including indecent assault, aggravated wounding related to allegedly drugging the suspected victims', and making intimate visual recordings, police said.

The men were mostly overseas tourists who stayed in the hostel over the past two-and-a-half years.

The lodge has 16 rooms with 65 beds in total, including dormitories.

Police said they were looking to speak with anyone who had stayed at the lodge in the last few years to find out whether there are other potential victims.

Detective Senior Sergeant Rhys Johnston said in a statement: "These victims are unlikely to know that something has happened to them, although they may have suspicions.

"This is an ongoing investigation and we have a lot of work ahead to assess evidence and establish if there are further victims we are not yet aware of."

Harris is in custody and will appear in Kaitaia District Court next week.

The Mainstreet Lodge website states: "Mike welcomes guests to come and discover the unspoilt Far North.

Guinean who brought Ebola to Senegal recovers from virus

DAKAR ,The first case of the Ebola virus detected in Senegal, a 21-year-old student who arrived from neighbouring Guinea last month, has recovered from the deadly disease, a senior official said on Wednesday.

"We did a first blood test on Friday and a second 48 hours later and both of them came back negative," Papa Amadou Diack, Senegal's director of health, told Reuters. "This is very good news for the patient and for the country."

The World Health Organization said on Tuesday there were two other suspected cases of Ebola in Senegal, but no other confirmed ones. The world's worst ever outbreak of the hemorrhagic fever has killed at least 2,296 people, mostly in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia.

Senegalese authorities have been monitoring 67 people who came into contact with the Guinean student and trying to trace his route on the more than 1,000-km land journey across the border from southwest Guinea.

Some 33 people have been placed under quarantine in the house in the teeming neighbourhood of Parcelles Assainies where he stayed with an uncle after arriving in Dakar in late August.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has said the epidemic is spreading exponentially in the worst affected country, Liberia, and it expects thousands of new cases there in the next three weeks.

Female Drink-Drivers Double, Survey Finds

Female Drink-Drivers Double, Survey Finds

The number of women convicted of drink-driving has nearly doubled in the last few years, a survey has revealed.

Women totalled 9% of drink-drive convictions in 1998, but that figure had increased to 17% by 2012, the figures showed.

The survey, by car insurer Direct Line and transport organisation the Rees Jeffreys Road Fund, revealed 17% of female motorists thought they had driven while over the legal alcohol limit in the last year.

Nearly two thirds (60%) said they were unaware of the legal limit.

More than half of those who admitted to drink-driving (59%) said they did so because they felt "ok" to drive.

Road safety minister Robert Goodwill said: "Drink-driving wrecks lives, and the personal consequences of a drink-drive conviction can be devastating

Five accused of trying to build a bomb in UAE - papers,double click and read more..

Four citizens of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and one from the Comoros have gone on trial charged with trying to build a bomb in the Gulf Arab state, newspapers reported on Tuesday.

The five are among 15 accused of membership of al Qaeda's Nusrah Front Syrian wing and another militant Syrian opposition group, Ahrar al-Sham, and of collecting funds for these groups, the newspapers reported.

The 15 on trial at the state security division of the federal supreme court are made up of nine Emiratis, four from the Comoros islands off east Africa and two Syrians, the newspapers reported.

Four Emiratis are being tried in their absence. All 11 who appeared in court denied the charges, the newspapers said. A defence lawyer asked for four witnesses to be called to give evidence, The National newspaper reported.

The National reported without elaborating that the explosive device allegedly assembled by the five accused had leaked toxic chemical fumes that affected nearby residents.

The newspapers reported prosecutors as saying the accused had travelled to Syria to make contact with armed groups, and had collected money, devices and equipment for use in attacks on civilians in Syria.

Judge Mohammed Al Jarah Al Tenaiji agreed, and adjourned the trial to September 23.

Red hot Nijel stuns world champ Rudisha in 800m final

Olympic and world record holder David Rudisha had to settle for silver after Nijel Amos from Botswana burst past with less than 50m to go to win the men’s 800m final Thursday.

Rudisha and compatriot Ferguson Rotich locked their rivals with some front running strategy until the last bend when Nijel went on the outside lane before sprinting past the East Africans.

Nijel, who lost to Rudisha at the 2012 London Olympics, clocked 1:45.18 to triumph as the Kenyan settled for second in 1:45.48.

Rotich came in fourth in 1:46.09 behind South Africa’s Olivier Andre 1:46.03. It was Rudisha’s third defeat at the hands of Nijel after Eugene and Monaco legs of the Diamond League.
World champion Eunice Sum, 26, set the stage for her second major title within a year when glided through the rains at Hampden Park to win her semi-final 800m.

A TACTICAL SUM

A tactical Sum stayed in front to win in 2:01.38 but her mentor and 2007 Osaka World champion Janeth Jepksogei’s dream of recapturing the title went up is smoke after finishing seventh in 2:04.60 in the second semi-final.

Jessica Judd from England powered to victory in 2:02.26 to set up an explosive looking final battle with Sum today. “It wasn’t easy but I just had to run my race and I feel great to reach the final,” said Sum. “I just want to be on the podium and that will be a great achievement for me irrespective of the colour of the medal.”

Despite failing to reach the final, Jepkosgei, who won the 800m title at the 2006 Melbourne, said she wasn’t disappointed even though Glasgow Games marked her last “Club” Games.