NEWS

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Speaker of Parliament Anita Among, has instructed the House Committee on Finance, scrutinizing the Microfinance Deposit-Taking Institutions (Amendment) Bill, 2022 to ensure inclusion of laws that protect members of Savings and Credit Cooperatives (SACCOs). The Speaker gave the directive during the plenary sitting on Thursday, …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Taxi operators plying the Entebbe Expressway have regularized their status and formed an association to improve their services and handle common challenges. The operators who use omnibuses popularly known as drones, met the Works and Transport State Minister, Fred Byamukama on Wednesday. Peter Kaggwa, the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDPENDENT | Statistics body, Uganda Bureau of Statistics said it will use sports as one of the avenues to help it popularize the forthcoming housing and population census in August 2023. Sport is a uniting factor in Uganda. Whereas Uganda is a very disunited country, when …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Secretary to Treasury, Ramathan Ggoobi, has told MPs that the Ministry of Finance is in the process of streamlining tax incentives to ensure their effective implementation. Ggoobi was on Thursday appearing before Parliament’s Finance Committee together with the Minister of State for Planning, Amos …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Board of Aldermen, the legislative body for the City of St. Louis, Missouri in the US has paid a memorial tribute to former Speaker of Parliament, Jacob L’Okori Oulanyah, who died in March this year. The Board recognized Oulanyah, who was also Omoro County …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  A nine-month European Union funded project to secure child rights and end violence against children in six Ugandan districts has ended, with reports of major strides in change of behaviour in many homes. To build on the successes registered, the chairman of the Joining …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Members of Parliament have demanded from the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development a comprehensive statement on persistent power outages currently being experienced nationwide. Rising on a matter of national importance during plenary sitting on Thursday, legislators demanded to know how technically possible it …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Some reformed ex-criminals and suspects in some of the pending cases have told the Kampala Metropolitan Police Commander Senior Commissioner of Police –SCP Stephen Tanui that they get army and police uniforms from security personnel. Tanui held a meeting at police headquarters with …

Mubende, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Four survivors, who have been undergoing treatment at the Ebola Treatment Unit – ETU in Mubende have been discharged. They were discharged on Thursday amid jubilation by the health workers, district technical staff, and members of the Ebola Taskforce led by Mubende Resident District …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Internal Affairs Minister Gen. Kahinda Otafiire has acknowledged that rogue elements have infiltrated the government’s security forces, and are behind some of the crimes being committed. Gen. Otafiire says some of the rogue individuals have taken advantage of the arrests currently being conducted by …