Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Government will next financial year spend a big chunk of the budget on interventions for human capital development, security and integrated transport infrastructure among others. The 2021/2022 financial year budget set to come into effect on 1st July 2021, was on Thursday afternoon presented to …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Museveni has said that the attack on General Katumba Wamala was politically motivated. The President was speaking after the budget reading on Thursday at Kololo Independence Grounds. According to President Museveni, the attack was a definite political motive, and they will know who was …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The head of the Anti-Corruption Unit, Lt. Col. Edith Nakalema has directed bus operators who had collected money from students that were meant to travel with their companies upcountry and never received the service to refund it to them. Nakalema raided bus parks in Kampala …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The police in Kampala Metropolitan has started deploying its traffic officers alongside armed Field Forces Unit-FFU personnel. Police through deputy Kampala Metropolitan Spokesperson Luke Owoyesigyire, said the deployment of traffic officers alongside armed colleagues is in response to President Yoweri Museveni’s directive during the State …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni told parliament that choosing members of the cabinet is one of the areas where he doesn’t need help. Museveni made the statement days after a list of appointed ministers was released to the public pending approval by Parliament’s Appointments Committee. The …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | City lawyer Male Mabirizi has petitioned the High Court in Kampala seeking to quash the directives issued by President Yoweri Museveni and Chief Justice Alfonse Owiny-Dollo suspending several operations due to Covid-19. On Sunday, President Museveni announced a 42-day closure of schools to control COVID-19 …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Law Development Center-LDC has defended its decision to pass out students without showing them their detailed scores. LDC is scheduled to hold its 48th graduation ceremony this Friday. However, in his communication to the students about the virtual graduation, Everest Turyahikayo, the LDC academic registrar …
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Kwania, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | About 500 farmers in Kwania district have signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Global Educational Network to grow sorghum on a commercial scale in a bid to eradicate poverty. Washington Onyum, the General Secretary Kwania District Farmers’ Association signed the MoU with Bongomin Zorish …
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Luwero, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police in Luwero district have arrested a woman for allegedly beheading her own one-week old child. The suspect has been identified as Aidah Naluyange, aged 30 years, a resident of Kakinzi village in Butuntumula sub county. She is accused of cruelly beheading her own child …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | At least 50 people are detained in police cells in Ntinda after they were arrested drinking in a bar last night in total contravention of the Ministry of Health guidelines against the spread of coronavirus. Kampala Metropolitan Deputy Police spokesperson Luke Owoyesigyire said that the …
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