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Apac, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Apac district Covid-19 taskforce has imposed a total lockdown in Akuli village in Atopi parish, Apac sub county for two weeks following the death of a local pastor. Robert Adoko, who was attached to Pentecostal Assemblies of God-PAG West Lango Pastorate succumbed to Covid-19 and …

Mbale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Members of Parliament on the Public Accounts and the Local Government committee have raised concerns over the criteria that was used by Mbale city authorities to select beneficiaries of the Covid-19 relief cash. The city authorities led by the City Town Clerk David Kyasanku, the …

Nakaseke, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police have used teargas to disperse legislators allied to the National Unity Platform-NUP political party, on their way to donate relief items to expectant mothers at Kikamulo health center in Nakaseke district. A group of legislators comprising Nakaseke Central MP, Allan Mayanja Ssebunnya, Hassan Kirumira …

Lira, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Members of the Lango Parliamentary Group have given a one-month ultimatum to the contractor of the Apac-Lira-Puranga road to start construction. During a site visit on Wednesday, the MPs were concerned that the contractor Gulsan Construction Company had not started construction works. The 100.1km road …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The late Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Major Gen. Paul Lokech will be remembered for making four crucial changes in the police force, the Political Commissar, Assistant Inspector General of Police-AIGP, Asan Kasingye has revealed. Lokech who served in the police force for eight months succumbed …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Fisheries Protection Unit-FPU has set ablaze more than 215 illegal fishing boats and 300 monofilament nets impounded from Lake Albert. The boats were destroyed in an operation conducted this week under the command of Lt. Colonel Dick Kaija, the Commandant of the Fisheries Protection …

Uganda’s retirement benefits sector grows from sh15.4 trillion to Sh17 trillion, 11.1% of Gross Domestic Product Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  The Minister of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, Matia Kasaija has lauded the Retirement Benefits Sector as key to Uganda’s economy because of the sector’s ability to mobilise …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Four people are in police custody in Kampala for selling and taking banned substances. They are Grant Ndugwa, Gerald Jangu, Peter Kaggwa and Bukenya Junior. A team of police officers from Wilson road police post and Nakasero led by their commanders Isaac Akampulira and Severino …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Some of the legislators on the Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee have expressed reservation on the recently returned Sexual Offences Bill, 2019. Last week, the Deputy Speaker Anita Among asked the committee to reconsider the bill following its return by the president. Tabled by the …

Masaka, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Sixty-year-old Anent Nampijja Muwangaza, a resident of Kasaali village, Bisanje Parish, Kabonera division in Masaka is the latest victim of the brutal killings in the city. Unknown assailants butchered the deceased at around 7:50pm on Wednesday evening. The assailants waylaid Nampijja as she was stepping …