NEWS

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA has suspended several fees levied in taxi parks. The charges include entry fees for each taxi that range between 1,000 to 4500 shillings, loading fees of 3,000 to 20,000 shillings for each taxi and daily welfare fees ranging between 20,000 …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Unidentified thugs have broken into the National Identification and Registration Authority-NIRA offices in Luweero town council and made off with several items. The thugs are said to have stolen seven laptops and one desktop computer containing the registration details of applicants for National ID …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga has summoned the State Minister for Environment Beatrice Anywar to present to parliament an action report on actions taken to save Kiwula Central Forest Reserve in Kayunga district. Kadaga’s summon to the State Minister to present a report …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police have disclosed plans by boda boda riders to attack State House to compel President Yoweri Museveni to lift a ban on their operations. Museveni restricted boda bodas to transportation of packages in March this year as part of the Covid-19 preventive measures. He …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Parliament has asked the government to consider re-opening churches and other places of worship with strict observance of Covid-19 standard operating procedures. In March, President Museveni directed the closure places of worship and others to curb the spread of the COVID-19 disease. The measure …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The police in Kampala is holding Makerere University Researcher, Dr Stella Nyanzi over staging an illegal demonstration. Nyanzi was picked near Nakasero market where together with two others had gone to mobilize arcade traders to protest the continued lockdown on their businesses. Nyanzi, who …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Local Government Minister, Raphael Magyezi has expressed dismay over the inadequate local revenue collection and rampant corruption in Nansana municipality in Wakiso district. According to Magyezi, the Shillings 6.1 billion collected by Nansana municipality is very insufficient. He argues that Nansana municipality has potential …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Fellowship of Born-Again Pentecostal Churches has developed standard operating procedures which they will adhere to if churches and other worshiping places are reopened. In March, President Yoweri Museveni directed the closure all places of worship to tame the spread of Covid-19. Bishop …

Kampala, Uganda | Prossy Nansubuga | The Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga during plenary urged government through the Ministries of Trade and Finance to intervene in the plight of sugarcane farmers in Busoga whose economies are dilapidating due to lack of buyers. According to MP Ntende Robert of Mayuge district, farmers …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | There is a disagreement between police and Fr. Josephat Ddungu, the Chaplain of St. Augustine Chapel in Makerere University over the release of CCTV footage showing how Emmanuel Tegu, a former veterinary student was clobbered. Tegu was reportedly clobbered by a mob near Lumumba …