Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kampala tycoon Shukla Babubhai Mukesh was last week charged with fraud and now his file has gone missing from police, reports say. Mukesh commonly known as Shumuk is the boss behind Shumuk Aluminium Industries and was facing 13 counts ranging from forgery, uttering false …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Parliament has passed the Sugar Bill that seeks to regulate the industry. In the new piece of law passed on Nov. 23, the MPs rejected a government proposal to provide operating zones for mills which they had put at a distance of 25kms apart. …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Jacob Oulanyah, has urged the central government to appropriately facilitate local governments in order to improve service delivery. Oulanyah said that Uganda should employ a holistic approach by supporting every sector. “A country is like a tree that has parts …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Education and Sports is to support the Busoga Education Initiative, which aims at improving the education standards in the sub region. The revelation was made by the Minister of State for Education, Rosemary Seninde at a meeting of the Busoga Parliamentary Group …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | School administrators in Lira have blamed access and exposure to pornographic materials for the rise in cases of sexual harassment and violence. The administrators of Lira Central Primary School told the Parliamentary Select Committee on Sexual Violence that some students and adults in the community …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Residents in the Rwenzori region are happy with the creation of new administrative units. This is according to a study conducted by Kabarole Research and Resource Centre, an NGO operating in the Rwenzori region. The study conducted by Makerere University political scientist, Prof Godfrey …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Up to 150 Ugandan children suffering from Rheumatic Heart Disease have been given a new lease of life thanks to Rotary International. The international service organization has committed a 1 billion Shillings (USD 272,500) grant towards correcting the life threatening complication caused by throat-bacterial infections. …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | More than 10,000 people have expressed interest to join, the New Formation of Mugisha Muntu, the former Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party President. Alice Alaso, the former Serere District Woman MP, says that popularizing the new formation is on-going before it is finally launched …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | On Saturday, November 24, 2018, MV Templar started a journey that would take it to K-Palm Beach in Mpatta Sub County, Mukono district. A bash had been organized the other side of the lake and was supposed to be attended by an assemblage of Kampala’s …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Pan African lender, United Bank for Africa, through the UBA Foundation, the arm of the bank charged with Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has unveiled the ‘Each One Teach One’Initiative designed to benefit   youths across the continent. The aim of the initiative is to create opportunities …