NEWS

Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Cabinet has approved directors of Uganda Broadcasting Corporation (UBC) and Uganda Post Limited (UPL), bringing in many new faces to board management. New faces include Major Chris Magezi, spokesman for Senior Presidential Adviser for Special Operations Lt Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba, and women activist and former …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda Communications Commissions is undertaking intensive investigations into the operations of the 13 Radio and Television stations initially cited for breaching minimum broadcasting guidelines. The decision was taken during a meeting with Executives of the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) led by their chairperson …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police officers who smashed the vehicle of the Kyadondo East MP, Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine on Easter Monday will face the Police Disciplinary Court for excessive usage of force. The officers from the Field Force Unit-FFU smashed Kyagulanyi’s vehicle along Busabala Road on his …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Forestry Authority (NFA) is scaling up the implementation of Community Forest Management initiatives around major central forest reserves. The initiative works in such a way that community groups are introduced to alternative sources of livelihoods as incentives for protecting forest resources. Such enterprises …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Schools under the Universal Secondary Education-USE program are likely to skip the national secondary school music, dance and drama-MDD competitions due lack of resources, the head teachers have warned. The national MDD competitions, which were officially launched in Kampala on Monday, are meant to …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Government of South Sudan has set up a committee to verify the authenticity of unpaid Ugandan traders, who supplied goods to South Sudan. This was revealed by the South Sudan’s Deputy Minister of Finance and Planning, Goc Makauc Mayol, during a meeting with …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Government has secured seven regional routes for the revived national carrier, the Uganda National Airlines. The routes include Nairobi, Juba, Bujumbura, Dar-es-Salam, Mombasa, Mogadishu and Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. Uganda secured two Bombardier CRJ 900 planes recently to revive its national carrier. The planes arrived …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Ebola surveillance officials at Bunagana and Chanika borders in Kisoro district are struggling to get water for use by people entering into Uganda, URN has learnt. People entering Uganda via Bunagana and Chanika borders from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda respectively …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Parliament Committee on Government Assurance has faulted Government over its failure to fulfill pledges on roads and hospital construction. According to the Report of the Parliamentary committee on Government Assurances, although Government pledged to work on several roads in the country since 2011, it …

5% drop to Shs68bn in net profit Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | Huge taxes paid to Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) has seen Barclays Bank Uganda Limited record a 5% drop in net profit to Shs68bn for the year ended December 2018. Barclays bank financial results released on April 25 …