Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Post Bank has failed to recover Sh235million that was disbursed in double payments to COVID-19 cash beneficiaries, according to the bank’s Chief Executive Director, Andrew Kabeera. He disclosed this to a joint parliamentary team comprising the Public and Local Government Accounts committee. Parliament is currently …
Read More »UNEB introduces new system to grade school performance
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) is introducing a new system that will be used to grade schools. The value-added score is a system that is intended to reward the efforts of all schools by analyzing extra considerations away from the immediate results of …
Read More »UGANDA: Medical training institutions to reopen
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Government has allowed medical and health training institutions to resume normal studies. This comes a week after the government instructed the Ministries of Education and Health and the National Council for Higher Education (NCHE) officials to meet and discuss the safe reopening of …
Read More »Kenyan repatriates 32 Karamojong girls
Busia, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Thirty two Karamojong girls and three of their infants have returned to Uganda through Busia one-stop border post following their repatriation by the Kenyan government. The returnees who are from Napak, Nakapiripirit and Moroto districts among others in Karamoja sub-region were stranded in …
Read More »Deputy IGP appoints new ICT Commanders
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Maj Gen Paul Lokech, has overhauled commanders in the directorate of Information Communication and Technology-ICT. This is in a bid to improve timely response to crime incidents captured by Closed Circuit Television –CCTV security cameras, The latest reshuffles of …
Read More »LUMBUYE: Heavy deployment at Turkish Embassy in Kampala
Lumbuye before he was picked up in Turkey Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | There is a heavy security presence along the roads leading to the Turkish embassy on plot 9 at Prince Charles drive in Kololo ahead of the deportation of popular Ugandan blogger, Fred Kajjubi, alias Lumbuye. Reports from …
Read More »Uganda’s Chemutai 16th out of 88 as Jepchirchir gives Kenya Olympic marathon gold
📌 Marathon results 🇺🇬 ◉ Chemutai 16th 2:32:23 ◉ Chekwel 69th 2:53:40 SB 🔴 SATURDAY ➡️ 10,000m FINAL Chelangat 1.45pm 🔴 SUN ➡ Marathon (M) FINAL – Musobo, Kiprotich & Chemonges – 12.00am Tokyo, Japan | THE INDEPENDENT & IOC | Uganda’s Immaculate Chemutai finished 16th out of runners in …
Read More »IN THE INDEPENDENT: We must learn to live with COVID
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | These are the top stories in this week’s THE INDEPENDENT. COVER STORY ‘We must learn to live with COVID’: Virologists say it’s only way out as disease won’t go away soon THE LAST WORD Uganda’s self-destructive impulses: How the ethnic divisions in our country drive …
Read More »Gov’t to pay Bunyoro tobacco farmers
Hoima, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Government has said that compensation of the more than 1,000 tobacco farmers in Bunyoro sub-region who had been denied payment since 2017 by private companies is expected to start in two weeks. The Minister of State for Industry, David Bahati, blamed the delay in payments to …
Read More »Gov’t yet to disburse UGX 1.4Bn relief cash
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | 1.4 Billion Shillings is yet to be disbursed to vulnerable people as Covid-19 relief cash. This was revealed by Julius Kakeeto, the Post Bank Chief Executive Officer and the Executive Director Andrew Kabeera on Friday while appearing before the joint parliamentary team, comprising the Public and …
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