Hoima, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Hoima Regional Referral Hospital has recieved Shillings 5.6 billion from the government this financial year for capital development. The hospital director, Dr. Sophie Namasopo, says that Shillings 4.5 billion will finance the construction of the regional blood bank, and Shillings 1.15 billion will finance the …
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Kanungu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Six civil servants under Kanungu district local government are in trouble over alleged forgery and utterance of false academic documents. The suspects who are currently being held at Kanungu police station include; Alfred Mwesigye, 53, a teacher at Kambuga senior secondary school and a resident …
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Mwanza, Tanzania | XINHUA | Twenty-six passengers have been rescued from a plane that crashed into Lake Victoria in Tanzania’s northwestern Kagera region on Sunday morning, said a local official. The Kagera regional commissioner, Albert Chalamila, said the plane flying from the Julius Nyerere International Airport in Dar es Salaam …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Committee on Trade, Tourism and Industry has said that it will move the protection law aimed at protecting consumers from false advertisement, predatory pricing and substandard products. According to the Chairperson of the Committee, Mwine Mpaka, although there are several laws in the …
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Kamuli, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Kamuli grade one magistrate, Aisha Nabukeera, on Friday remanded Moses Kamya, the director of Mustard Seed Senior Secondary School and the director of studies, Hawali Muledu, to Kamuli government prisons, over abetting examination malpractice. Their school is located within Busoota zone, in Southern …
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Mukono, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Mukono district Chief Finance Officer, Robinah Nabwire has revealed that a total of 16 billion shillings was returned unspent to the Consolidated Fund at the end 2021/2022 Financial Year. Nabwire says that they received a total of 29 billion shillings to facilitate the …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The United Nations Development Programme – UNDP has described as ‘promising’ Uganda’s speedy transition towards electric mobility as a lasting solution to the supply shocks of fossil fuel and its hazards. E-mobility is a concept of using electric powertrain technologies, in-vehicle information, and communication technologies and …
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Fort Portal, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Permanent Secretary Ministry of Local Government has interdicted from duty the Fort portal city Town Clerk Moses Otimong. I n a November 4 letter see by URN to Otimong, the Permanent Secretary Ministry of Local Government Ben Kumumanya says that the Ministry …
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Kisoro, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A 24-year-old police officer in Kisoro district accused of allegedly shooting an Indian businessman to death has been charged with murder and remanded to Kisoro government prison. Eliod Gumizamu, attached to the Nyakabande Refugee Transit Centre is alleged to have shot and injured Patel …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has eulogised fallen former NRA commander Lt.Col Ahamed Kashilingi. “Ndugu Kashillingyi (RIP) made his contribution to our struggle and we salute him. I have spoken to some of his children such as Halima, Busingye and others to convey to them our …
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