Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Sixteen-year-old Ruth Nalubega has lost interest in learning after losing both arms in a boda boda accident. It all started on July 24, 2021, when the teenager picked a boda boda in Mukono town at around 5pm to rush her to Lugazi town, about 18km …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Governments have been encouraged to improve road safety and better integrate the needs of cyclists into the design of transport infrastructure. Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, the President of the UN General Assembly says that investing in city infrastructure to support cycling from protected lanes to bike-share …
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Job Title: Road Safety Specialist The Road Safety Specialist will be responsible for implementing procedures and standards for the delivery of road safety interventions and providing professional advice in all aspects of Road safety. In addition, the Specialist will be responsible for undertaking site inspections and investigations, feasibility studies, …
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Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | Uganda Breweries Limited (UBL) has launched a one week safety campaign aimed at creating awareness and promoting safety at the workplace. The campaign is part of a celebration to mark five and ten years of “No Lost Time Accident” at Uganda Breweries Limited and its …
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Four concerned citizens have petitioned the High Court in Kampala seeking orders to have Works and Transport Minister Eng. Monica Azuba Ntege prosecuted over planned nationwide mandatory motor -vehicle inspection. The citizens led by Aaron Izimba also want orders permanently blocking the vehicle inspection, and the immediate cancellation of a contract signed on …
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PICTORIAL: Fika Salama, a campaign by Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA) and Uganda Police to improve road safety following harrowing road accidents in the past six months, has in the latest operation seen errant drivers in Nakasongola hit hard. According to photographs from Police, up to 56 vehicles have been impounded in Nakasongola during …
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Are the rampant deaths on this highway a result of undisciplined motorists only? This is the car in which Bukomansimbi Woman MP died. It is a navy blue saloon car whose face is punched-in from colliding head-on with an oncoming car. That one over there is where the NTV …
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