Tag Archives: Yoweri Kaguta Museveni

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has said that the report that was compiled by the Commission of Inquiry into Land Matters led by Justice Catherine Bamugemereire will be studied with a view of turning its recommendation into law in a bid to streamline land issues in …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  The National Unity Platform-NUP party President, Robert Sentamu Kyagulanyi has welcomed US travel restrictions on some government officials for human rights violations. On Friday, the US Department of State announced a blanket travel ban on some unnamed Ugandan government officials for alleged gross human rights …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has met the trade delegation from Kenya who are on a working visit to Uganda over efforts to revive the trade relations between the two countries.    The officials from Kenya started their week-long trip to Uganda on Monday with a …

Masaka, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  | Nyendo Township Market in Masaka city, is struggling to attract vendors four years after it was commissioned. President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, in April 2017 commissioned the market which was constructed at 13 billion Shillings obtained from the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA). The …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  President, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni is yet to share detailed information revealing how pop-star turned politician Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine, the former National Unity Platform (NUP) presidential candidate engaged in rigging the January 14th, 2021 polls.    Speaking during his nationwide address on Sunday evening, …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  The Inspector General of Police, Martin Ochola, has released a list of targets he intends to achieve in his new term. Ochola was last week approved by Parliament to serve another term. President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni on March 4, 2018 appointed Ochola to replace Gen. …

Kanungu, Uganda |THE INDEPENDENT |  The Water and Environment Ministry has repaired the Ntungwa river solar irrigation scheme in Kanungu district a few days after URN reported about it. The solar irrigation scheme, which commissioned in January 2019, is found in Kameme village in Kibimbiri parish in Kihihi sub-county.   It was built …

Kanungu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  A 850 Million Shillings fish project for youth in Kanungu district is lying idle. Located along Maizimera Road in Kihihi town council, the fish project which comprises eight fish ponds, six hatcheries and a machine to crush fish feeds was donated by President Yoweri Kaguta …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  The Director of Information and Publicity at the National Resistance Movement Party -NRM secretariat Emmanuel Dombo says the party does not need the court’s endorsement to legitimize its victory in the just concluded presidential election. Dombo was responding to the decision by the former National …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  Kyagulanyi Ssentamu Robert, the former presidential candidate of the National Unity Platform-NUP has ordered his lawyers to withdraw a petition that he had filed in the Supreme Court challenging the outcome of the January 14, 2021, presidential election. The election was won by the National …