Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Entebbe road was temporarily cut off this afternoon after heavy afternoon rains left a valley, next to the proposed International Specialized Hospital Uganda at Zana-Lubowa, flooded. Water and mud, mainly from the cleared hill where the hospital will be built, flooded the Entebbe road causing …
Read More »IMC offers free medical care to Lubowa and Entebbe road community
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | International Medical Centre (IMC) Entebbe road clinic has Friday dedicated a whole-day fair to conduct a health camp as a way of giving back to the community where it serves, through a health initiative. Since its inception in 2015, the IMC Entebbe road clinic has so …
Read More »Our country’s misguided priorities
How the debate on Lubowa hospital exposes the self-indulgence of Ugandan elites and their poverty of ideas THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | Two weeks ago Uganda government approved $380m (or Shs1.4 trillion) to build an “international specialised hospital” in Lubowa. On the face of it, this is …
Read More »Hospital investor to earn Sh8 billion interest annually
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | FINASI International will pocket Sh8 billion annually as interest for six years for the construction of the proposed International specialized Hospital in Lubowa in Wakiso district. The Committee on the National Economy is currently scrutinising government plans to guarantee a loan of Shillings 1.3 …
Read More »MPs demand answers from Govt on $ 379M hospital investor
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Members of Parliament have tasked government to explain why they have decided to fund an investor to construct an international specialized hospital. Government plans to guarantee a loan of $ 379 million to an investor for the construction of an International Specialized Hospital …
Read More »MPs query $379M Gov’t support to Lubowa hospital investor
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Members of Parliament have questioned the move by Government to guarantee a loan of $379 million to an investor for the construction of an International Specialized Hospital in Lubowa, Wakiso district. The government approved the construction of the hospital, to be operated as a world-class …
Read More »NSSF launches construction of US$400M Lubowa housing project
Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | On Sept. 26, the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) broke the ground to construct 2, 740 housing units in Lubowo – about 16 kilometers away from Kampala city. The new project is being constructed on the 565 acres of land and it is a build …
Read More »VIDEO: Kasirye Ggwanga accused of burning tractor
VIDEO: Kasirye Ggwanga accused of burning tractor Kampala, Uganda | NBS TV | Police in Lubowa town along Kampala-Entebbe road have opened investigations into the allegations that a senior UPDF army officer Brigadier Kasirye Ggwanga burnt a tractor he found on a piece of land, which he claims belongs to him. …
Read More »Kabafunzaki’s aide says not guilty, remanded to Luzira prison
Brian Mugabo, the Political Assistant to embattled Labour Minister Herbert Kabafunzaki has been remanded to Luzira prison on fresh charges of corruption. Mugabo, who was brought from Kigo Government prison on Wednesday to receive sentence following a guilty plea he entered last week, astonished court when he informed it that …
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