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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Drug Authority has impounded drugs worth sh46 million from 22 outlets within Kampala. The drugs were got during a 12-day enforcement operation after NDA were tipped off that some pharmacies and drug shops were operating without valid licenses. The operation also targeted …

🔴 CECAFA CUP FINAL 7pm ➡ Express vs Nyasa Dar es Salaam | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda Premier League champions Express FC will face guest side and Malawi giants Nyasa Big Bullets FC in the final of the CECAFA Kagame Cup tonight. The final to be witnessed by the CAF …

📌 MIN OF EDUCATION GUIDELINES ✳ Terms of 12 weeks ✳ Holidays 15-17 days ✳ No start, mid-term & end of term exams ✳ 2021 academic year starts August 9 ✳ 2022 academic year starts May 16 ✳ 2023 academic year starts April 10 ✳ 2023 shortest term, November 23 – …

Lira, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | About 15 kilometers from Aduku, along Ikwera to Nambieso Sub County road, lies Ogwang-med-mac farm owned by Patrick Ogwang, a former office attendant, now model farmer. Ogwang, who in the past worked as an office attendant in the office of the LC3 Chairman of …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda has today recorded it’s highest number of daily Coronavirus infections with 326 people testing positive from tests conducted on Friday. Results released today by the health ministry show that 326 new cases were confirmed bringing the total number of cases reported in the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Journalists in the Albertine Graben have been asked to be at the forefront of the Ebola awareness campaign. The call was made on Wednesday by Nathan Isingoma Kitwe, the Hoima district council speaker at an Ebola awareness campaign for Bunyoro journalists, organized by Uganda …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | City Lord Mayor, Erias Lukwago has petitioned the Inspector General of Police Martin Okoth Ochola, asking him to recall Kituuma Rusoke, the head of the Kampala Capital City Authority- KCCA law enforcement team. In a November 8th, 2019 letter to Ochola, Lukwago indicates that …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The police officer who arrested Tony Nsubuga Kipoi, the jailed former Bubulo West Member of Parliament didn’t know the crime he was wanted for. Kipoi was picked up in 2012 by Inspector of Police, Bernard Turyamureeba who was then working with the Flying Squad Unit …

Organisation focuses on training of journalists amidst shrinking media freedoms Kampala, Uganda |  IAN KATUSIIME | A leafy compound on John Babiiha Avenue in Kololo, Kampala, has become home to a number of German organisations in Uganda, including known ones like KfW under their trademark ‘German Cooperation’ and newer ones like DW …