Jinja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The speaker of parliament, Rebecca Kadaga has lined up three law firms to defend her re-election as Kamuli District Woman Member of parliament. Kadaga’s re-election is being challenged by her rival, Salaam Proscovia Musumba, the Forum for Democratic Change Vice President. As a result, …
Read More »NUP MPs-elect to meet over Speaker election
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Unity Platform (NUP) party is set to have a retreat with its MPs-elect to decide who they will be supporting to the position of speaker and deputy speaker of parliament. Speaking to reporters today leaders of NUP led by John Baptist Nambeshe, …
Read More »Police blocks coronation of new Masaba cultural leader
Mbale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police and the military today deployed heavily at Mutoto cultural site located in Industrial city division in Mbale city after learning that the coronation function of Amuram Wagabyalile, the new elected Masaba cultural leader, is going to take place from there. According to Rogers …
Read More »Mbale residents living with disabilities form SACCO to fight poverty
Mbale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Mbale residents living with disabilities have contributed money and established a savings and credit society to help finance their individual engagements so as to reduce on the biting poverty levels. Operating under the Mbale Union of Disabled Persons, the newly formed SACCO intends to tap …
Read More »REBUILDING: 8th edition of the Uganda Film Festival starts
MultiChoice Uganda to offer training, cash and other prizes for 2021 film festival participants Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) has together with MultiChoice Uganda and other partners launched the 8th edition of its five-day film festival with a cinema opening event at Acacia Mall …
Read More »Over 3000 girls got pregnant in West Nile during lockdown
Arua, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | More than three-thousand girls got pregnant in the greater West Nile region during the Covid-19 lockdown according to statistics from the Education department of the Lugbara Cultural institution. Suzan Ezatia, the Minister of Education in Lugbara Kari says that their findings indicate that some of …
Read More »Eight charged for procuring defilement in Amuru
Suspects are locked up at Otwee police station for marrying off a fifteen-year-old girl Amuru, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Eight people in Amuru district are in trouble for procuring defilement. They are thirty-year-old Charles Ojok, who is accused of severally defiling a fifteen-year-old girl and primary six pupil at Oloyotong …
Read More »Police distances Gen Lokech from Odonga Otto’s arrest
Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police have rubbished claims that the Deputy Inspector General of Police, Maj. Gen. Paul Lokech influenced the arrest of Aruu County Member of Parliament, Samuel Odonga Otto. The embattled legislator was picked up from Gulu city on Tuesday last week on allegations of causing malicious …
Read More »Activists renew demands for pregnant learners to stay in school
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Child rights activists want the Ministry of Education to extend the time that pregnant learners can stay in school. According to the education ministry policy, the learners are only given a period of three months to attend school after they are confirmed pregnant. However, those …
Read More »Simi registers high phone sales in the Ugandan local market
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Simi Technologies, the manufacturer of Uganda’s first mobile phones says it has recorded high sales during the first year of its operations compared to their project. Simi technologies has been in business for 13 months following its launch in late 2019. David Beecham Okwere, the …
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