NEWS

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Kitara Football club and Kiboga Young have qualified for the final of the FUFA Big League slated for October 21st at the Fufa technical center in Njeru. To reach the final Kitara FC edged Kataka FC, while Kiboga FC ejected Ndejje University in the semi …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  The Police force and its sister security agencies particularly Uganda People’s Defence Forces – UPDF have deployed joint spy teams to monitor schools operating without COVID-19 clearance certificate including those flouting the Standard Operating Procedures – SOPs. Police Spokesperson, Fred Enanga, said the intelligence officers …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | The former president of the Forum for Democratic Change-FDC party Col. Dr Kizza Besigye has rallied the youth in Fort Portal to join Plan B- his other strategy to oust the ruling National Resistance Movement-NRM  party following many unsuccessful attempts to oust the regime through …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | As schools financially struggle to reopen after seven months of lockdown, President Yoweri Museveni has donated 100 million Shillings to a primary school in his village of Rushere in Rwakirura district.  In a press statement issued by the presidential press unit, Museveni on top of …

Wakiso, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  The National Resistance Movement (NRM) has today sweep all the nine positions contested for during the district youth council elections for Wakiso district. There were running battles as Police fired teargas to disperse rowdy youths who attempted to grab the ballot box as the voting …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Former Buganda Premier Dan Muliika has dismissed the apology issued by Wamala regional police spokesperson Racheal Kawala over the teargassing of Mbogo clan leaders during an event on Saturday, Muliika says it should be the top commanders of police including president Museveni to apologize.   Muliika …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  The business community might have to forget the tax incentives that the government offered them to mitigate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on their businesses, as there is no necessary legislation to enable their enforcement.    The 2020/2021 budget was delivered under the theme: …

Moroto, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  The legal maxim that Justice delayed is Justice denied seems to be applying on more than a dozen victims of rape in Karamoja sub-region, as a consequence of the September Moroto mass prisonbreak. It transpires that 15 of the escapees were accused of sexual violence …

Luweero, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Justice Damalie N. Lwanga has indefinitely suspended a defilement case against Reverend Canon Kezekiah Kalule because of disagreements on the DNA report. She made the ruling when Reverend Kalule, who was formerly attached to Luteete Archdeaconry in Luwero Diocese, appeared before Luwero High court to …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Uganda Medical Association-UMA wants the government to accredit private hospitals to offer internship placement to medical doctors.  Dr. Richard Idro, the President Uganda Medical Association, says they have recommended to the Health Ministry and talked to some private hospitals to offer medical internship owing to …