NEWS

Jinja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Heavy rains characterized with hailstorm have de-roofed two classroom blocks at Kaitandovu primary school in Buyengo sub county, Jinja district. Some of the teachers at the school told URN that the nonstop rains began on Wednesday afternoon to date and they were too incapacitated to …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Unity Platform-NUP is demanding that security agencies in the country produce or release over one hundred of their members who were arrested on allegations of planning disruption of President Museveni’s swearing-in ceremony. Joel Ssenyonyi, the party spokesperson said their legal teams are in …

The army will start another phase of forceful disarmament of Karimojong next month if voluntary disarmament by the locals remains low. Moroto, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The 3rd Infantry Division of the Uganda Peoples Defense Force-UPDF in Moroto has received only two guns after asking the locals to freely surrender …

Lira, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The newly appointed Executive Director of the Uganda National Bureau of Standards, David Livingstone Ebiru sees the bringing on board of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) to embrace standards as one of the major challenges as he takes the mantle. Only if and when …

Lira, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Grade One court sitting in Lira has remanded to prison two men arrested for impersonating state house anti-corruption staff. Elly Apenyo, a 29-year-old businessman and his colleagues Denis Olwa, a 40-year-old social worker were arrested on Monday and detained at Lira central police station …

Mubende, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The government has allocated over 14 Billion Shillings to Mubende municipality for road construction under World Bank support. Frank Mpewo, the Mubende municipality deputy town clerk says that the fund will construct more than 3 roads in the municipality, mainly Lubanga road (0.996 km), Second …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Telecommunication companies continue to disconnect mobile telephone lines that are assigned to corporate organizations which have failed to comply with the UCC guidelines issued last year. The regulator says they have received complaints alleging failure and/or refusal by operators to adhere to the set simcard …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health is investigating a case where health workers stationed at Mukono General hospital threw a stillborn baby in a placenta pit. The investigation comes following reports from the mother, 29-year-old Rose Baisi, a resident of Kigombya in Mukono district, that one of …

Kampala, Uganda | Julius Businge | On May 15, Uganda Tourism Board flagged off athlete Joshua Cheptegei to the 60th Ostrava Golden Spike in Czech Republic happening on Wednesday May,19. Cheptegei is a tourism ambassador for destination Uganda. He refers to himself as the ‘Silverback’ of the Pearl of Africa. A silverback is …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The government of Uganda will mostly likely take another eight years before issuing National Identification Numbers-NINs to all citizens. The projection has been made by the newly appointed National Identification and Registration Authority-NIRA Executive Director Rosemary Kisembo as she assumed her new office at the …