Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Lugazi Municipal Authorities are proposing alternative routes for heavy trucks which they say are damaging the tarmacked section of road in the town centre. Lugazi Municipal Mayor Deo Tumwesige Mbabazi says the heavy trucks, some of which are used to transport loads of sugarcane, …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | National Water and Sewerage Corporation-NWSC has petitioned the Attorney General for clarification on the failure by Luweero Industries Limited to handover a water treatment plant in Nakasongola district. National Water and Sewerage Corporation took over the water supply in Nakasongola town in June 2017. …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ugandan and Kenyan government with the mediation on of the United Nation-UN have agreed on joint collaboration to promote peace at the different border points especially in places with normads and pastoralists. The agreement comes following week long discussions between different stakeholders including …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Tobacco Control Act was enacted in 2015. However, the Health Ministry says the law has been shelved because of numerous injunctions and lawsuits filed by tobacco companies. Addressing stakeholders during the commemoration of the World No Tobacco Day in Kampala on Thursday, the Health …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The body of the former Prime Minister, Professor Apollo Robin Nsibambi lay in state in parliament on Thursday afternoon for members of parliament and the public to pay their last respect. The late Nsibambi, 78, succumbed to leukaemia at his home in Bulange, Mengo …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A proposal requiring car dealers to register with the Financial Intelligence Authority-FIA in the move to curb money laundering in the business is in the offing. Section 21 of the Anti-Money Laundering Act, 2013 mandates the FIA to register all accountable persons who are …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The High Court Family Division has dissolved the marriage of Norbert Mao, the Democratic Party-DP President to Naomi Achieng Adong. Justice Godfrey Namundi dissolved the marriage in his judgment delivered on May 27th, 2019 on a petition filed by Achieng accusing Mao of cruelty …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Equity Bank (U) Ltd has made a Shs20 million donation to the organizing committee of the Martyrs Day celebrations as Ugandans and the world prepares to celebrate June 3, 2019. The celebrations are to last for a week. Equity Bank’s Marketing and Communications Manager …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The construction of the 840 Mega Watts Hydroelectric Power Plant on Victoria Nile in Ayaygo in Nwoya district still hangs in balance. Government signed an agreement with Mapa, a Turkish Construction firm to construct the dam in 2013 at the tune of US $1.970 …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Bank of Uganda Deputy Governor Dr Louis Kasekende has dispelled claims that the Agriculture Credit Facility (ACF) administered by the central bank was nonfunctional, saying there are success stories to speak for it. Kasekende was speaking at the ten-year anniversary of the facility …
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