Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The government is mooting to regulate electronic payment services and products offered mainly under new Financial Technologies also referred to as Fintech. Fintech refers to the integration of technology to allow companies provide digital financial solutions that ease transactions with just a tap of …
Read More »People’s government petitions court to kick EC chairperson out of office
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The People’s Government has filed an application in the High Court seeking for orders to remove Electoral Commission chairperson Simon Byabakama from office. President Museveni appointed Byabakama in 2016 replacing Dr Badru Kiggundu. Addressing a press conference at their office at Katonga on Friday, …
Read More »Kenya’s Mutua stops Omongole in eastern Africa table tennis championship final
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda’s Eddy Omongole lost to Kenyan player Brian Mutua in the men’s singles final of the 2019 Eastern Africa Table Tennis Championships on Friday at the Pope Paul Memorial Centre. The 21-year-old Mutua, a student of Physical sciences at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and …
Read More »CSOs write to president Museveni against building dam on murchison falls
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A section of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) have jointly written to President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni demanding him to declare that no dam is constructed at Murchison Falls. The letter dated 28th November is signed by Dickens Kamugisha, the Executive Director of Africa Institute for Energy Governance …
Read More »NBL Finals: Okello, Ndikumana guide city oilers past UCU canons
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Defending Champions of the National Basketball League, City Oil stopped Uganda Christian University (UCU) Canons 79-72 on Friday night to tie the finals series 1-1. On Wednesday UCU beat the odds to stop City Oil despite Coach Nicholas Natuhereza and Centre David Kongor Deng’s ejection …
Read More »Construction of appellant courts launched
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Judiciary has launched the construction of both the Supreme Court and Court of Appeal at the High Court in Kampala. The ground-breaking ceremony took place on Friday. Construction of the two courts will cost 63.9 billion shillings. The Chief Justice Bart Katureebe said that …
Read More »Police hunts driver for knocking cyclist dead
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kampala Metropolitan traffic has launched a hunt for a driver who knocked dead a cyclist on along Entebbe Road on Friday morning. Deputy Kampala Metropolitan Police Spokesperson, Luke Owoyesigyire, said Patrick Sserwanga was hit by car Toyota Mark II with registration number UBF 365C. The …
Read More »MPs want tax exemption for CCTV cameras
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The proposal is contained in a motion by the Kasambya County MP Mbwatekamwa Gaffa that seeks to urge government to review the tax regime on Closed Circuit Television-CCTV security cameras and automotive tracking devices. Close to 3,000 CCTV cameras planned for Kampala Metropolitan policing …
Read More »Sudan adopts law to dissolve Bashir party, ‘dismantle’ regime
Khartoum, Sudan | AFP | Sudan’s new authorities have ordered that the party of ousted autocrat Omar al-Bashir be dissolved and his regime “dismantled”, heeding the call of protesters whose campaign led to the leader’s overthrow. Bashir and his Islamist National Congress Party (NCP) had ruled the northeast African country …
Read More »LRA war victims get free surgery for bombs, bullet wounds
Lamwo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Victims of the Lord’s Resistance Army-LRA insurgency in Acholi Sub-region have started benefiting from a one-week free corrective surgical camp in Lamwo district. A team of surgeons from Uganda and Help a Child Face Tomorrow based in Kenya in partnership with Health Right Internationalstarted the …
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