Tag Archives: State House

Nwoya, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Although an army political commissar is expected to faster good relations between the military and the public, a UPDF captain who plays that role in Northern Uganda has been accused of cruelly evicting citizens from land they have been on for years thereby depriving them …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The telephone installation of State House is being misused to meddle into the race for Speakership of the 11th parliament, the incumbent speaker of the 10th parliament has noted. Speaker Rebecca Kadaga has named two government officials who she accuses of misusing the Statehouse switchboard …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A gardener at the State House of Uganda Nakasero has been remanded for alleged theft of sh30 million that was meant to buy food for State House employees. Ismail Kivumbi, 37, was on Wednesday afternoon arraigned before the Buganda Road Court Grade One …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT  |  Parliament’s Budget Committee has today questioned State House’s competence to supervise scientists spearheading the production of an anti-tick vaccine which has so far cost the tax payer 2.9 billion Shillings. This follows a supplementary budget request by State House of 2.27 billion Shillings towards the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police have disclosed plans by boda boda riders to attack State House to compel President Yoweri Museveni to lift a ban on their operations. Museveni restricted boda bodas to transportation of packages in March this year as part of the Covid-19 preventive measures. He …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | State House has cancelled the accreditation of Journalists for the presidential address on the coronavirus scheduled for Wednesday at State House Entebbe. PPU will relay the President’s address live. There will be no access to any other media to State House Entebbe. We shall …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  | Each of the 500 National Resistance Movement-NRM party youths who pitched camp at State House Entebbe on Monday afternoon demanding to see the president received shillings 30,000 to leave. Led by Henry Kajubi, the youth stormed State House to deliver a petition to president, Yoweri …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Seated in a swinging chair holding a newspaper as he sips a hot cup of tea, Edward Lwanga Kasole Bwere, enjoys his retirement at his residence in Wakiso district. Born 85-years ago, Kasole is a renowned and accomplished teacher whose love for education gave …

Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  President, Yoweri Museveni has praised the Chinese Government for extending loans to Uganda and Africa where other partners have been hesitant. He was fielding questions at a press conference he jointly addressed with visiting Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa at State House Entebbe ahead of today’s …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has thanked the Government of the United States of America for the continued role and support in combating viral diseases like Ebola in Uganda and the region as a whole. The President was speaking during a meeting with the visiting American Secretary …