Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police are investigating an attack on Professor Patrick Mucungunzi, a lecturer in the department of plant science at Makerere University. Prof Mucunguzi was waylaid and attacked by unknown thugs from within the University campus on Wednesday. According to eyewitnesses, the academician was …
Read More »Boda Boda company vanishes with sh100 million in northern Uganda
Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | At least 200 Boda-boda cyclists in Acholi and Lango sub regions are crying foul after allegedly being defrauded more than Sh100 million by a one Easy Boda-Boda Company Ltd in Koro Sub-County in Omoro District. The aggrieved cyclists allege that prior to the lockdown …
Read More »What goes on in NRM’s Central Executive Committee?
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | While the Central Executive Committee (CEC) is simply listed as the second highest organ of the National Resistance Movement-NRM party after the National Delegates Conference, it is increasingly turning out as the most powerful. Ever since NRM was registered as a political party in 2004, the …
Read More »Uganda’s foreign exchange reserve stands at 3.9 bln USD
Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA | Uganda’s stock of foreign exchange reserves at end of June 2020 stood at 3.9 billion U.S. dollars, which is equivalent to 5.2 months of future imports of goods and services, the country’s central bank has said. Adam Mugume, executive director of research Bank of Uganda told …
Read More »19 year old picks presidential nomination papers from EC
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A 19-year-old boy has picked presidential nomination papers from the Electoral Commission. Hillary Humphrey Kaweesa who picked the forms on Wednesday is in senior six vacation and a former student of Mengo Senior Secondary School. Kaweesa says that he attained three principal passes in …
Read More »Mbale parliamentary aspirant tests positive for Covid-19
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | An aspirant for the Bungokho North Central constituency parliamentary seat in Mbale district has tested positive for Covid-19. Information obtained from health officials in Mbale shows that the aspirant is isolated at Mulago National Referral Hospital where he is undergoing treatment. Edward Nyongesa, the …
Read More »Police cyber team probes loan scam affecting over 6,700 people
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police forensic and cyber teams are probing circumstances under which more than 6,700 people including police officers and teachers lost their money in loan scams over the last one year. It is alleged that the police officers, teachers and other public servants were …
Read More »Uganda officially joins extractive industries transparency initiative – EITI
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda’s application to join the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) has been approved, a move that is expected to make open the deals Uganda has signed with different organizations in the oil and gas sector and other natural resources. Uganda becomes the 54th member …
Read More »End violence against women – UNFPA representative
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The UN Population Fund (UNFPA) office in Uganda has called for an end to injustice and impunity against victims of gender-based violence. It says Female Genital Mutilation and child marriage bring consequences that violate basic rights of women and girls. UNFPA representative in Uganda, …
Read More »UNOC ships in 6 million litres of fuel via Lake Victoria
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda National Oil Company (UNOC) has started a process that will see it move all its fuel imports from Kenya by water through Lake Victoria up to the Jinja pier. Peter Muliisa, the head of legal and corporate affairs at UNOC said the company …
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