Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Financial indiscipline by government ministries, departments and agencies led to a loss of sh 864.8 billion in the year ending December 31, 2018, according to a new audit report released by the Auditor General John Muwanga today. The Auditor General says that as a …
Read More »TEF opens Applications for 5th Cycle of $100m Entrepreneurship Programme
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Tony Elumelu Foundation, the leading African-funded and founded philanthropy committed to empowering African entrepreneurs, is now accepting applications for the 2019 cohort of the TEF Entrepreneurship Programme. The Programme is a 10-year, $100 million commitment to identify, train, mentor and fund 10,000 African entrepreneurs. …
Read More »ICPAU releases November 2018 examination results
Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | The Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Uganda has Thursday (Jan.03) released results for examinations administered between November 26-30 at examination centres of Arua, Fort Portal, Gulu, Kampala, Mbale, Mbarara and Nkozi. The results released by ICPAU’s President Frederick Kibeddi (CPA), the Chairperson of the …
Read More »MOTORING: Uganda top car in 2019
Race between Rav4, Subaru Forester, Kluger, Harrier Kampala, Uganda | MOTORING GURU | When The Independent’s motoring guru did a column in December 2017 predicting the popular car of 2018, the focus was on the evergreen compact SUV; the Toyota RAV4. Buried deep in that review was mention of an emerging …
Read More »REVIEW: Gone in 2018
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Jan.05: Former Archbishop Livingstone Mpalanyi Nkoyoyo Retired Church of Uganda Archbishop, Livingstone Mpalanyi Nkoyoyo has lost the battle to cancer at Kampala Hospital in Kololo. He had returned to Uganda in June 2017 from the UK, where he had been admitted at St. Mary’s Hospital …
Read More »REVIEW: 2018’s funniest stories
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Tororo man eats cobra to avenge his lost chicken Kenneth Odiom 34, shocked fellow villagers in Kwapa central village in Tororo district when, for his birthday meal, he hunted and killed a venomous cobra snake that had been eating his chickens and ate it. The …
Read More »ANALYSIS: Torture in 2018
Justice Katureebe pain and Bobi Wine’s pockets Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | Many Ugandans, including Chief Justice Bart Katureebe, agree that this year has been one of the worst for human rights violations. This year coincided with the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights but in Uganda, …
Read More »China aids Uganda’s fast pace on development track
Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA | The year 2018 ends on a good note for Uganda as the east African country eyes more financing and investment from China. After the 2018 Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation held in early September, the Ugandan cabinet quickly formed an inter-ministerial …
Read More »ARTS: Sane’s white faces
How Africans become invisible on the global stage Kampala, Uganda | DOMINIC MUWANGUZI | Sane produces politically engaged art: the art that inspires conversation on ensuing political situations. He draws interest in his work with metaphors that satirically communicate the evils of the Capital Empire with its villains. He sardonically implicates …
Read More »Vipers SC sack Mexican coach Espinoza
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda side Vipers SC has this evening terminated the services of its head coach Javier Martinez Espinoza. A statement on the football club’s website confirmed the sacking, and stated that, “The club management thanks the Mexican tactician for the services rendered to the club. Vipers …
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