NEWS

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Members of Parliament have asked the Ministry of Education and Finance to allocate more funds to facilitate the national team, She Cranes at the World Cup. She Cranes will play against England, Samoa and Scotland in Group D. Though the team has already arrived …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga has given government a deadline of one month to table the category of leaders or important persons who should lie in state when they pass on. Kadaga’s directive followed a moment of silence in honour of the Late …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Justice Catherine Bamugemereire of Land Commission has finally set foot in Moroto following several calls from residents over land grabbing. There have been numerous calls from residents, local leaders and the Civil Society Organizations in Karamoja to the Commission to investigate land matters …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Twenty doses of Ebola drugs have been imported into the country. The doses are being kept at standby treatment centre at Fort Portal Regional Referral Hospital to cover the western part of the country in case of an outbreak and other doses are being …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police have arrested, Moses Angoria, a security guard attached to Quality Shopping Village Parking Lot in Naalya on allegations of shooting dead a businessman, Arnold Ainebyona Mugisha. Deputy Kampala Metropolitan police spokesperson Luke Owoyesigyire confirmed the incident, saying Angoria shot Ainebyona in the mouth …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda freight forwarders are urging industry players to come together and speak with one voice on issues that affect the industry. According to Hussein Kiddedde, the Chairman Uganda Freight Forwarders Association (UFFA), the industry is fragmented which means that they don’t know their members and …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Committee on Commissions, Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises-COSASE chairperson, Mubarak Munyagwa has formed a subcommittee to investigate fraudulent acquisition of departed Asians’ property. In 1983, the Departed Asians’ Property Custodian Board was put in charge of between 9,000 to 10,000 properties of Asians …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The recent attacks targeting mobile money operators and Boda boda riders have drawn the attention of parliament. Members of Parliament want Government to explains the attacks, which have claimed the lives of several mobile money operators and Boda boda riders. Robina Rwakojo, the Gomba …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has faulted the Mubende Regional Referral Hospital Director, Alex Andema over a 777.8 million Shillings wrongly expenditure on a stalled building.  Andema and other hospital officials on Tuesday appeared before the committee chaired by Budadiri West MP Nathan Nandala Mafabi …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Government has said that the proposed registration of coffee farmers will cut off middlemen and also ensure development of the coffee sector in the country. Government through the National Coffee bill 2018 seeks to register and license coffee farmers. The bill also proposes that …