Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Deputy Head of the Crimes Division of the High court has said that case backlog will be no more by the end of next year. The criminal division that had more than 150,000 cases now has 922 cases waiting to be heard. The …
Read More »Researchers suggest interventions to curb use of substandard medical products
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Over 160 researchers and policymakers around the world are calling for action against use of substandard medical products that include vaccines, diagnostics and medicines. This is after the World Health Organisation (WHO) survey found one in ten medical products used in low and middle-income …
Read More »MUST developing system to track functionality of medical equipment
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Mbarara University of Science and Technology is developing a system that will track and alert users about the functionality and usability of medical equipment. Dr. Johnes Obungoloch, the Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Applied Science at Technology and the head of the team …
Read More »Fees strike: The voices Makerere ignored
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | As the fighting and firing of teargas at Makerere scales down, there’s one voice whose lone idea was ignored as the University passed the now controversial fees policy last year. It is this policy that triggered a strike on October 22, which has since …
Read More »Teaching children from First family
Renowned educationist and former owner of Kampala Parents School, Edward Lwanga Kasole Bwerere describes what it was like teaching the children of presidents Milton Obote and Yoweri Museveni. After heading what was the leading private primary and lower primary school in Uganda and completing a stint as MP for Buwekula …
Read More »Uganda-South Sudan border market fails to attract traders
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Ngomoromo market in Lokung sub-county, Lamwo district remains unoccupied six years after it was commissioned. The market located at Uganda-South Sudan border was constructed in 2012 by Lamwo district local government at a tune of 52 million shillings with funding from the World Bank …
Read More »First batch of medical students at IUIU graduate
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The first batch of medical students at Islamic University in Uganda have graduated. The university introduced Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery course in 2014 and admitted 33 students. They were among the over 2,000 students who graduated on Saturday at the University’s …
Read More »Gov’t agencies tasked to market source of the Nile as tourist destination
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Director-General of Civil Aviation authority-CAA, Daniel Kakuba has asked different government agencies to market the source of the Nile as a priority tourist destination in the whole world. While officiating over the rising of the international civil aviation organization-ICAO flag at the source …
Read More »Tullow hammers Uganda on ‘Slow decision making’
Some governments need to pick up the pace on signing off on upstream projects in order to attract capital, Tullow boss says | THE INDEPENDENT | African countries risk losing out to other markets in the race for global upstream investment capital due to slow decision making by some governments …
Read More »Murder at Makerere
A true story by Prof. John Sebuwufu; former vice chancellor of Makerere University Kampala, about student strikes. In spite of occasional skirmishes, some order had returned to students’ politics, until February 2001 when the calm was rudely interrupted by the murder of a first-year student and a resident of Lumumba …
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