NEWS

Heavy rains disrupt start of PLE, late start expected in many places Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Heavy rains have this morning disrupted the start of the Primary Leaving Examinations-PLE in different parts of the country.  At many examination storage centres, there were no teachers to receive the materials. …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Hajji Musa Katongole, the former chairman of the now defunct Uganda Taxi Owners and Driver’s Association (UTODA) is dead. Katongole who has been sick and admitted at TMR Hospital in Naalya, a Kampala suburb for several days was pronounced dead this morning. It is …

Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni’s social media team is testing ‘a no reply’ feature on his twitter handle. This is the first time that the president’s account which has been in existence for 10yrs  has closed a tweet from direct replies. Twitter introduced the option of …

Jinja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The speaker of parliament, Rebecca Kadaga has lined up three law firms to defend her re-election as Kamuli District Woman Member of parliament. Kadaga’s re-election is being challenged by her rival, Salaam Proscovia Musumba, the Forum for Democratic Change Vice President. As a result, …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Unity Platform (NUP) party is set to have a retreat with its MPs-elect to decide who they will be supporting to the position of speaker and deputy speaker of parliament. Speaking to reporters today leaders of NUP led by John Baptist Nambeshe, …

Mbale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police and the military today deployed heavily at Mutoto cultural site located in Industrial city division in Mbale city after learning that the coronation function of Amuram Wagabyalile, the new elected Masaba cultural leader, is going to take place from there. According to Rogers …

Mbale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Mbale residents living with disabilities have contributed money and established a savings and credit society to help finance their individual engagements so as to reduce on the biting poverty levels. Operating under the Mbale Union of Disabled Persons, the newly formed SACCO intends to tap …

  MultiChoice Uganda to offer training, cash and other prizes for 2021 film festival participants Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  The Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) has together with MultiChoice Uganda and other partners launched the 8th edition of its five-day film festival with a cinema opening event at Acacia Mall …

Arua, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | More than three-thousand girls got pregnant in the greater West Nile region during the Covid-19 lockdown according to statistics from the Education department of the Lugbara Cultural institution. Suzan Ezatia, the Minister of Education in Lugbara Kari says that their findings indicate that some of …

Suspects are locked up at Otwee police station for marrying off a fifteen-year-old girl Amuru, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Eight people in Amuru district are in trouble for procuring defilement. They are thirty-year-old Charles Ojok, who is accused of severally defiling a fifteen-year-old girl and primary six pupil at Oloyotong …