NEWS

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |   School authorities plan to use the first days to reorient and counsel learners following their return to school after a six month’s break because of the nationwide lockdown.  Various school leaders say they have realized learners need counselling and psychosocial support before actual learning …

Jinja, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |   More than 1,000 families whose houses were demolished to pave way for the Standard Gauge Railway construction in Jinja City have protested delayed compensation. The victims from the suburbs of Mpumudde, Mafubira, Bugembe and Kakira argue that, ever since SGR officials earmarked their property …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |   Nine candidates have so far been nominated to contest for the Rubaga South constituency seat.  They include former MP John Ken Lukyamuzi, Kato Lubwama the incumbent, National Resistance Movement- NRM flag bearer Male Charles Kenneth, National Unity Platform- NUP flag bearer Mukasa Aloysious Gold …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |   A man has died after being shot by Local Defense Unit-LDU personnel enforcing night-time curfew in Kamwokya city Suburbs.  Twenty-two-year-old Mark Lubowa breathed his last at Mulago National Referral Hospital on Wednesday evening where he had been admitted following the shooting. Information obtained by …

Jinja, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |   Police in Jinja city have arrested three people in connection to Wednesday night shooting at Crested Crane Hotel that left one of the persons on guard duty dead and three others seriously injured. It is alleged that, the assailant ambushed the guards who were …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |   Faridah Nambi, the ruling National Resistance Movement-NRM party candidate for the Kampala Woman parliamentary seat took the streets to celebrate her nomination contrary to the Electoral Commissions’ ban on processions.  Nambi, who stood on a wheel loader with several private bodyguards drove from the …

Wakiso, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |   Residents of Nakawuka, Kasanje and Kisubi in Wakiso district have offered free land to government to upgrade the road stretching from Mpigi to Nateete in Kampala to tarmac. The locals contend that the road whose traffic is ever heavy, slows development of their areas …

Obongi, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |   There is heavy and tight security deployment in Obongi town as nominations take place at the Electoral Commission offices. When Oongi MP Kapsi Fugaroo who went to be nominate at 10:00am, he was met by anti-riot police who had cordoned off the EC offices. …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  61 schools in Entebbe Municipality have so far been cleared to reopen.  This follows an assessment of the schools headed by Sarah Monicah Nabirye, the inspector of schools, Daniel Ndagga, the Principal Education Officer and other officials from the municipal council. Ndagga says that …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |   The Ministry of Education and Sports has announced that it will display the lists of schools approved to reopen. Benson Kule Baritazale, the head of the inspection team for school reopening at the department of education standards, notes that the list will be displayed …