Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | City lawyer Male Mabirizi is seeking an injunction over the 2021 general elections. Mabirizi wants the East African Court of Justice to block the elections on accounts that its organizations and conducts are being guided by a set of laws that have been challenged …
Read More »Chief Justice calls for investigations over UGX 450m flush toilets
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Chief Justice Bart Katureebe has called for investigations into construction of two flush toilets at 450 million shillings. Last week, Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee-PAC asked the judiciary to explain how two flush toilets were constructed at a tune of 450 million shillings. The toilets …
Read More »BoU Deputy Governor slams high mobile money charges
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Dr Louis Kasekende, the Bank of Uganda Deputy Governor, has said he is irked by the high charges placed on mobile money transactions every time one sends or withdraws money. Kasekende told a gathering in Kampala on Wednesday: “I must express our displeasure at …
Read More »UNRA to start repairs on Fort Portal- Bundibugyo road
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda National Roads Authority –UNRA has promised a swift repair of the cracks along Fort Portal – Bundibugyo road in Bundibugyo district. Huge cracks developed at Mairo Kamuga Village near Bubukwanga trading center on Tuesday following a heavy downpour, which also destroyed six bridges …
Read More »Breastmilk donation: A wet nurses’ experience with quintuplets
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Noelene Namugwanya had just had her first baby three months ago when her cousin Honoranta Nakato delivered five babies through a Caesarian section at the Women’s Fertility Hospital in Bukoto. On October 19, 2018, her quintuplets had arrived early at only seven months. But, that …
Read More »Makerere drops to 16th position in Africa University rankings
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Makerere University is now ranked 16th on the African continent and 1,225th Globally, according to the July 2019 Ranking Web-Webometrics, the largest academic ranking of Higher Education Institutions in the world. The July edition is the second edition of the year 2019 to show that …
Read More »Russia donates 53 food delivery trucks to WFP in Uganda
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The World Food Programme-WFP has received 53 light and 10 heavy-duty KAMAZ trucks to add to its delivery fleet, thanks to a donation by the Government of Russia. The vehicles worth USD 10.2 Million (38 billion Shillings) will be used to respond to emergencies in …
Read More »Coffee bill offends socio-economic rights-Lawyers
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | City lawyers have chipped in on the ongoing discussion of the National Coffee bill 2018, saying it hamper the socio-economic rights of Ugandans once enacted in its current form. The National Coffee bill 2018 seeks among others things to provide for the registration of commercial …
Read More »Kabaka calls for boost to restoration of cooperatives
Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Kabaka of Buganda Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II has asked the government to re-engage communities in the quest to restore cooperatives. He said that the cooperative movement was the engine for Uganda’s development in the past and that it needed to be revived to help …
Read More »Museveni didn’t clear development of Lusanja land– Witness
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni never cleared the development of Lusanja land. Testifying as a witness in the consolidated petitions of the Lusanja land evictions, Irene Birungi an official from State House said the people who claim ownership of the land have been developing the area but …
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