Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Survivors of a nasty motor vehicle accident that claimed four lives and left 32 people injured in Gulu City on Monday evening have started recounting their recollections of the fatal crash. The accident involved a Canter truck registration number UBF 743B which overturned with …
Read More »Gulu lawyer charged with husband’s murder, remanded
Gulu, Uganda | THE INDPENDENT | Lawyer Francesca Amony has been been remanded to Gulu Main Prison for stabbing her husband to death. She appeared before the Gulu Chief Magistrate Said Barigye on Monday afternoon. She was charged with one count of murdering her late husband Dr. Joseph Etuk contrary to sections 188 and …
Read More »19,000 children vaccinated against measles-rubella in Gulu
Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Gulu District Health Department has immunized 19,300 children below the age of five years against measles-rubella. The six days immunization drive was conducted in primary and nursery schools, and health facilities in the 11 sub-counties of the district. Dr. Kenneth Cana, the Gulu District Health …
Read More »GULU: School perimeter wall collapses, kills three in grass thatched house
Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A mother and her two children have died after a school perimeter wall collapsed on their grass thatched building in Kasubi A Central Village, Bardege-Layibi Division in Gulu City. The perimeter wall belonging to Christ the Center Ministries Nursery and Primary School reportedly collapsed …
Read More »Angry pupils in Gulu lock up headteacher’s office over exams
Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Pupils of Kitino Tima Primary School in Omel sub county, Gulu district have chased their school head teacher and locked her office over allegations of failing to deliver exams. Mary Filder Lakaraber was reportedly pulled out of her office on Tuesday afternoon by more …
Read More »Gov’t students demand increase of allowances
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Government-sponsored students in public universities are struggling to survive amidst the increasing prices of commodities. This has forced students from Kyambogo, Gulu, and Makerere Universities to demand an increase in the living-out allowance. At Makerere University, government-sponsored students who reside outside the university receive at least …
Read More »Gulu University VC Prof Openjuru given new 5-year term
Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Gulu University Council has approved the extension of Prof. George Openjuru Ladaah’s term of office as the University Vice Chancellor. Prof. Openjuru’s five year contract extension was endorsed on Friday during the 53rd meeting of the Gulu University council. The new contract takes …
Read More »Man dies after drills during UWA recruitment in Gulu
Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A prospective recruit to the Uganda Wildlife Authority-UWA has died after participating in a 5 kilometer fitness run in Gulu city. The deceased has been identified as 20-year-old Jacob Opiyo, a resident of Kitgum District. He was pronounced dead at Gulu Regional Referral Hospital …
Read More »Will Gulu city authorities sustain directive on trade order?
Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Just four days after Gulu City council authorities launched a mass eviction of individuals conducting businesses in ungazetted spaces, normalcy appears to have returned on the major streets within the city center and the Main Market. Pedestrian walkways and pavements on major streets of …
Read More »Gulu registers over 3,000 cases of mental illness in nine months
Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Gulu district has registered 3,484 cases of mental illness in the last nine months. The statistics from the district health department were recorded between July 2021 and March 2022 from the different health facilities. According to the statistics, Awach sub county registered the highest number …
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