FULL text of the State of the Nation Address by President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni June 4, 2015   Uganda State of the Nation Address 2015 by The Independent Magazine Share on: WhatsApp

By the Independent Team Bank of Africa (BOA) Uganda netted a net profit of Shs 1.2 billion as at end of 2014, up from a loss of Shs 6.7 billion in 2013. Ronald Marambi, the managing director, spoke to The Independent about their tremendous return to profitability, the market conditions, …

By Joan Akello After completing university, Mushabe, 34, ventured into web hosting as a reseller and started Hostalite Ltd with one client who paid Shs 120,000. He says he started web hosting because of the desire to have repetitive income because clients must renew their domains annually. After one year, …

By Agnes E. Nantaba Owners face tough choice on whether to expand at same location or start new campuses School administrators in Uganda; be they private owners or the government, are starting to confront a problem they have avoided for some time; the need for more classrooms. Since the introduction …

By Flavia Nassaka Why the government prefers to pay them little On May 21, 138 chairpersons of the Uganda National Teachers Union (UNATU) countrywide entered the offices of Prime Minister, Ruhakana­Rugunda in Kampala for a meeting.He had invited them to explain why, despite government’s commitment, it had failed to include …

By Agnes E. Nantaba Why should the martyrs be honoured this way? The scene is scary.  The 23 men and boys, tied up with ropes, are being burned in a flaming bonfire of wood and reeds. The fire has already scorched the hair off their heads and the oily skulls …

By Ian Ortega To love the President, we must close one eye to his failures and open both to his achievements Every person has a utopia that they create in their minds. Deep in their minds though, it doesn’t seem one, it seems achievable. Yet, when the winds of reality …

By Charles Onyango-Obbo About free markets, democracy, and why world peace might be bad I am writing this letter directly to you Andrew Mwenda. First, to say, I am glad that you are now like the prodigal son who is – kind of – returning home.  For a few years …

By Flavia Nassaka Doctors give tips on handling infection By Flavia Nassaka One in two women and one in 20 men will experience a Urinary Tract Infection (UTI)  at some point, with varying degrees of severity according to how far the infection spreads, says Dr. EvaristeBaruga,a urologist based at the …

By Joan Akello Edmond Malilo Owor, Executive Director, Uganda Land Alliance talked to Joan Akello about land issues. What land activities are you carrying out currently? At community level, we carry out sensitization and mobilisation. We have sensitised about 20,000 people on the rights on land such as land access, …