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Museveni to Ugandan athletes: Treat sports like a job

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has asked Uganda’s Olympic athletes to view sports as a professional career rather than mere recreation. The President said that sports have evolved from a leisure activity to a profession where athletes can earn a living. The President made these remarks while …

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Gov’t releases shs6 Trillion for FY quarter one activities

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The government has released up to 5.899 trillion Shillings for various activities in the first quarter of the 2024/25 financial year. A bulk of the funds will finance the non-wage bill with an allocation of 3.371 trillion Shillings, followed by the wage bill at 1.990  …

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Elon Musk to move SpaceX, X headquarters out of California

LOS ANGELES | Xinhua | American billionaire Elon Musk announced Tuesday that he would move the headquarters of SpaceX and X out of California, one day after the state’s Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill that bans school rules requiring staff to disclose children’s gender identity changes to their parents. …

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Investor fined shs200 mln for depositing murrum in wetland

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Standards Utilities and Wildlife Court has sentenced Kerim Ray, the Director of Yamani Construction Limited, to pay a fine of  200 million shillings. He was also ordered to restore the Lwajjali Wetland in Mukono.  Kerim Ray is through his company accused of having encroached …

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