Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The office of the President is seeking a budgetary allocation of 12.33 billion Shillings to renovate the State House in Entebbe and 23 upcountry State lodges. Constructed in 2007, the State House in Entebbe has had no major rehabilitation works and needs a retouch, State …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Fisheries State Minister Hellen Adoa has threatened to name and shame illegal fishermen on Lake Victoria and the other major water bodies masquerading as State house officials. Addressing staff at the National Fisheries Resources Research Institute-NaFIRRI in Jinja city on Wednesday, Adoa claimed that …
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Luwero, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The police in Luwero district have arrested two men who impersonated as State House employees and forced a man to sign a transfer of 80 acres of land. The suspects have been identified as Steven David Kakembo, a resident of Kazo Angola zone and a …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | State House has tasked telecom regulator, Uganda Communications Commission to investigate social media users declaring President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni either very sick or dead. In her press statement, Lindah Nabusayi, the senior presidential press secretary says that the only reason President Museveni is no longer …
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Nwoya, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Although an army political commissar is expected to faster good relations between the military and the public, a UPDF captain who plays that role in Northern Uganda has been accused of cruelly evicting citizens from land they have been on for years thereby depriving them …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The telephone installation of State House is being misused to meddle into the race for Speakership of the 11th parliament, the incumbent speaker of the 10th parliament has noted. Speaker Rebecca Kadaga has named two government officials who she accuses of misusing the Statehouse switchboard …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A gardener at the State House of Uganda Nakasero has been remanded for alleged theft of sh30 million that was meant to buy food for State House employees. Ismail Kivumbi, 37, was on Wednesday afternoon arraigned before the Buganda Road Court Grade One …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Parliament’s Budget Committee has today questioned State House’s competence to supervise scientists spearheading the production of an anti-tick vaccine which has so far cost the tax payer 2.9 billion Shillings. This follows a supplementary budget request by State House of 2.27 billion Shillings towards the …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police have disclosed plans by boda boda riders to attack State House to compel President Yoweri Museveni to lift a ban on their operations. Museveni restricted boda bodas to transportation of packages in March this year as part of the Covid-19 preventive measures. He …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | State House has cancelled the accreditation of Journalists for the presidential address on the coronavirus scheduled for Wednesday at State House Entebbe. PPU will relay the President’s address live. There will be no access to any other media to State House Entebbe. We shall …
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