In The Magazine

By Joan Akello Moses Golola, the 34-year old national kickboxing champion talks to The Independent’s Joan Akello about the sport and early retirement plans. Any three things we don’t know about you? I love my country, a prayer warrior, no joke, want to retire after my international fight in April …

By Kavuma-Kaggwa Former President Idi Amin Dada’s words fit perfectly into the behaviours of African president kicked out of power African countries started to achieve Independence from European colonialists in 1960 although Ghana, in West Africa gained Independence on March 6, 1957. Many wonderful things have happened in Africa since …

By Irene Atim Lakony Islamic banking should increase access to investment finance and see a rise in entrepreneurship projects The Ugandan government has embraced Islamic banking as evidenced by Cabinet’s recent approval of the same with the proposed Islamic Banking Bill 2014 currently before the Uganda Law Reform Commission undergoing …

By Haggai Matsiko Police chief’s new term begins years amidst stiff criticism as his force celebrates a hundred Inside the Uganda Police Force command centre on the second floor of the three-storeyed Shs9 billion plush Police headquarters located in Naguru in Kampala, about 30 police officers, neatly clad in khaki …

By Haggai Matsiko Parliamentary Defence Committee says wrong priorities threaten national security If not addressed, problems in the way the way the UPDF is run pose national security threats, according to analysts including some on the powerful Parliamentary Defence Committee. An indication of this emerged this September as the parliamentary …

By Patrick Kagenda Greed, intrigue, backstabbing at KCCA Besieged Kampala Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago is clear. “As KCCA reaches out to Kidandala, they are creating a more complex situation,” he says, “They are now entangled in the very net they laid for me and the more they try to wriggle …

By Andrew M. Mwenda If Mbabazi plans to challenge Museveni for the presidency of Uganda, he has begun on a wrong footing Since he was dropped from cabinet, speculation has been rife about what former Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi is going to do. Will he challenge President Yoweri Museveni for …

By Joan Akello Justice Bart Magunda Katureebe of the Supreme Court talked to Joan Akello about his legal and political life. Any three things we don’t know about? I ’m a very private person; a family man with a wife, six children and 9 grandchildren and; I’ve met two living …

By Eric Kabeera East African Community Secretary General Dr. Richard Sezibera in an exclusive interview with The Independent’s Eric Kabeera about the regional integration process. How far is the implementation process of some of the regional projects that have already been ratified? The implementation process in on track, the single …

By Patrick Kagenda `As KCCA reaches out to Kidandala, they are creating a more complex situation’ On his view of the happenings at the KCCA: It is an attempt by President Museveni to overthrow the sovereignty of the people of Kampala. You know for sure President Museveni lost Kampala politically …