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Third edition of awards held under the theme of ethics and trust Kampala, Uganda | IAN KATUSIIME | The third edition of the Uganda CFO Awards was a big night for Uganda Breweries Limited (UBL) when Doregos Busola, the Finance and Strategy Director was crowned Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  All power generated at new power dams will have to be consumed, for Ugandans to realize cheaper electricity, a Ministry of Energy official has said. James Banaabe, the Director of Energy Resources at the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development said Uganda invested in new …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  Uganda has been praised for allowing open discussions among the public on matters that affect them, compared to several countries that freedoms of speech have been heavily restricted.  Professor Melina Platas Izama, of the New York University-Abu Dhabi, says there are more active discussions and …

Kitgum, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  Kitgum District security committee have banned renowned musician William Otim alias Bosmic Otim from holding any concert within the district. William Komakech, the Kitgum Resident District commissioner who heads the security says that the decision was made to ensure security. Komakech says Bosmic has ventured into …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  National Water and Sewerage Corporation has dismissed 31 Prepaid Water Meter Token Vendors. They had been recruited and trained to distribute water tokens to consumers in Kampala city. The layoff of the agents climaxed last month since it started at the beginning of the year. …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  The World Bank has urged the Ugandan government to pass the Special Needs and Inclusive Education policy which has remained in a draft for close to ten years.   The policy, which was drafted in 2011, makes it mandatory for all schools to have special needs …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  The Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga has allayed concerns raised by the Speaker of the House of Representatives of Egypt, Ali Abdel-Aal, on the use of the River Nile whose basin is situated on Lake Victoria in Uganda. Kadaga said this during a bilateral meeting …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  Freedom Square, which was once a perfectly green field is now riddled with large patches of mud, coursed through by tire tracks, following the Friday 11th economics exhibition. The Square remained littered with sheer amounts of disposables from the same event till this week when …

Masaka, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  A row has erupted between Rukiga district councillors and the office of the Chief Administrative Officer over a failed agriculture tour. On September 26th, councillors resolved during a council session to have an agriculture tour in Masaka district. The council resolved that the office of …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  The Kampala Geopolitics Conference 2019 had it all on day one.  African and global politics, debate and Intellectualism rolled in a few hours….and that is before an even more promising day two, due Friday at Makerere University. The conference was “…fired by the most impressive and energetic moderation …