Uganda Police Force in the run-up to the 2021 general elections recruited 50,000 SPCs to complement its work of law enforcement on a 3-month contract Moroto, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | There is fear among people in different areas of Karamoja as disbanded Special Police Constables (SPCs) continue using police uniforms, almost a …
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Buliisa, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The reopening of Butiaba health center III in Buliisa district hangs in balance. Last year, the facility was closed and relocated to Butiaba primary school after failing to secure a better place where patients can be treated. This is after it was submerged following the rising …
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Partners to get trained in Personal Money Management, Basic Business Skills, Running my Airtel Business Tax and compliance Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Airtel Uganda, The Smartphone Network with the widest 4G internet coverage across the country, has today launched its inaugural nation-wide campaign dubbed the Franchise Partner Development Training. …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Preliminary police findings into the fire that gutted a dormitory at King’s College Budo points to possible arson. On Tuesday morning, fire gutted Grace House, one of the girls’ dormitories at King’s College Budo, destroying student’s property worth millions of Shillings. The fire is said to …
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Kamuli, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kamuli police are investigating circumstances surrounding the murder of a renowned traditional healer. Forty-year-old, Wasswa Kayizi was stabbed to death inside his shrine at Butabaala village in Southern division in Kamuli district on Wednesday night. His lifeless body was covered with bruises and open wounds in …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kawolo hospital is yet to deliver services to residents according to expectation despite undergoing major rehabilitation in 2017. The hospital lacks key staff which is affecting service delivery. The rehabilitation works also included the construction of a new outpatient department, a fully equipped theatre with three …
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Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Authorities in Gulu and Amuru districts have raised concerns about new methods being used by illegal charcoal dealers and loggers to gain access to forest reserves and cut down trees. In Paibona sub county in Gulu district, Richard Watmon, the LC 3 chairperson says that more …
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From Managing Director and CEO Airtel Nigeria, Olusegun Segun Ogunsanya to head Airtel Africa Lagos, Nigeria | THE INDEPENDENT | Airtel Africa plc has announced Olusegun “Segun” Ogunsanya as their new Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Segun Ogunsanya who has been Managing Director and CEO Nigeria since 2012, is to succeed Raghunath “Raghu” …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Parliament has yet again deferred the proposal by the government to introduce a Parish development model that seeks to empower Ugandans economically in the 10,594 parishes. The model is a strategy being fronted by the Government in the next financial year for organizing and delivering public …
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Kwania, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Abapiri Oil Seed Cooperative Society, a group of farmers in Abapiri Village, Atule parish in Chawente Sub County, Kwania district needs 400 million shillings to construct a warehouse. The Cooperative which deals in soya beans, maize, sim sim and other cereal crops, plans to …
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