Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The family of the late Nasser Ntege Sebaggala have resolved to stay his burial for a week. Sebaggala who passed on Saturday morning, will now be buried on Sunday October 4, to enable his children attend his send off. The decision supersedes an earlier communication …
Read More »Military police face-off with NUP supporters at Ssebaggala’s vigil
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Supporters of the National Unity Platform on Saturday night faced off with the military police personnel at the vigil of former Kampala Mayor Hajji Nasser Ntege Ssebaggala at his ancestral home in Kisaasi. At 9:00 pm, two military police trucks carrying armed military police personnel …
Read More »Lockdown affected HPV immunization uptake in Kanungu
Kanungu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The HPV vaccination campaign in Kanungu district suffered a huge setback because of the lockdown that was initiated by the government to disrupt the spread of coronavirus. The government launched the Human Papillomavirus Vaccination (HPV Vaccine) exercise at Bwera Secondary School grounds in Kasese district. …
Read More »High court asks Wakiso magistrate to forward Kyagulanyi’s case file
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Deputy High Court Registrar Mary Kisakye Kaitesi has asked Wakiso Chief Magistrate to forward the file relating to the case of forgery and uttering false documents against the National Unity Platform-NUP president Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu. In her September 24th, 2020 letter, Kaitesi says the …
Read More »Amuru officials struggle to contain escalating teenage pregnancies, marriages
Amuru, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Amuru district authorities are struggling to stop the escalating teenage pregnancies and marriages involving school girls resulting from the lockdown. The district chairperson, Michael Lakony says at least 315 teenage girls mostly from primary schools were impregnated and married off between April and August this …
Read More »Three remanded for theft of UGX 440M in software scam
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Three people are on remand at Kitalya prison in Wakiso district for conspiring to steal more than Shillings 444 million belonging to Uganda Nurses and Mid Wives Council. They are Engineer Julius Mugambagye, the proprietor Ram Engineering Uganda Limited, Ivan Kayuiki, a businessman and High …
Read More »Bugisu: Coffee farmers counting losses due to destructive dieback disease
Sironko, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Coffee farmers in Sironko, Bulambuli and Bududa district are counting losses due to the suspected outbreak of the dieback disease. James Gudoyi, a coffee farmer from Bumasabo sub-county in Bulambuli district says the disease makes the coffee plant to shade off all the berries and …
Read More »Politicians pay tribute to Nasser Ssebaggala – The tactical team player
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Politicians have paid glowing tribute to former Kampala Mayor Al Hajji Nasser Ntege Sebaggala who passed on this morning. Sebaggala, 72, suffered a cardiac arrest a few weeks after undergoing surgery for intussusception, a condition in which one segment of the intestine inverts within another, …
Read More »West Nile LRA victims give gov’t 45 day ultimatum to pay UGX 99Bn
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | 758 victims of the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army-LRA insurgency West Nile region have given the government a 45-day ultimatum to respond to their compensation demands or else they seek legal redress through courts of law. The victims issued the ultimatum on Friday through Alaka …
Read More »Broadcasters oppose guidelines for 2021 general elections
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Broadcasters are protesting the proposed guidelines issued by Uganda Communications Commission-UCC ahead of the 2021 polls. The broadcasters describe the guidelines as unfair, saying they were never consulted by the regulator. The guidelines cover political advertising, equitable access to talk-shows, equal coverage to candidates …
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