Luwero, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Luwero topped the list of districts with the highest cases of malicious damage to property and criminal trespass resulting from persistent land conflicts. According to the 2022 police crime report issued last week, Luwero district registered 172 cases of malicious damage to property followed by Mpigi …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has returned the National Local Content Bill, 2022 to Parliament for reconsideration. Speaker Anita Among made the announcement while chairing the plenary sitting on Wednesday, 01 March 2024. The President’s letter to the Speaker dated 19 January 2023 details sections that ought to …
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Ankara, Turkey | Xinhua | Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Wednesday that his government plans to hold the presidential and parliamentary elections on May 14, as the country is still recovering from two devastating earthquakes that struck a large swathe of its southern region in early February. “The time …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Lawmakers have criticised a supplementary expenditure of Shs57.6 billion under the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development to cater for an out of court settlement to a United States based energy company, Albatross. Members of Parliament on the Budget Committee made their reservations while receiving responses …
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Accra, Ghana | Xinhua | Ghana confirmed 12 new cases of Lassa fever after Sunday, bringing the total number of infections to 14, said a release issued by the Ghana Health Service (GHS) Wednesday. The GHS said the 12 new cases were close contacts of the two cases confirmed earlier and …
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Amuru, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Ben Oluba, the town clerk of Atiak town council in Amuru district is in trouble for allegedly selling three government planting machines as metal scrap. He was picked up from Atiak town council on Tuesday after the planting machines were discovered at a metal scrap yard. …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Parliament’s Committee on Public Accounts – Commissions, Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises (COSASE) has put Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA)’s technical team to task over delayed payment of causal workers who have gone for months without pay. Led by KCCA Executive Director Dorothy Kisaka, the technical …
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Kikuube, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | John Paul Mugabe, the Buhaguzi Constituency Mechanic Emyooga Saving and Credit Co-operative Society-SACCO chairperson in Kikuube district is in police custody for allegedly swindling Shilling 15 million belonging to the SACCO. He was arrested on Tuesday on the directives of Haruna Kasolo, the State Minister for …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda Peoples Defence Forces (UPDF) has been cited in the alleged mismanagement of relief food meant for the people of Karamoja. According to the Committee on Presidential Affairs that is currently investigating the alleged misuse of Karamoja relief items including iron sheets, goats and maize …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Nearly a month after the reopening of school for the first term, it has emerged that a section of teachers and learners in senior three are still struggling to select their preferred subjects. In Uganda’s education system, learners in senior three and four are required to …
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The Independent Uganda: You get the Truth we Pay the Price
