Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Resistance Movement (NRM), the ruling party has said it will buy media space for its flag bearers for different positions in the coming 2021 general elections campaigns. Speaking to journalists at the Uganda Journalist Association (UJA) offices in Kawempe, Kampala, Emmanuel Dombo, …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health has warned parents not to misinterpret Tuesday’s declaration by the World Health Organization that Africa is polio-free. In an interview with Dr Alfred Driwale, the manager of the Uganda National Expanded Programme on Immunization (UNEPI) in the Ministry of Health …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has declared Saturday August 29 2020 a day for national payers and public holiday. “A certain Ugandan came to me and told me that God had told him in a vision that I should organize National Prayers, scientifically organized, for God …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Speaker Rebecca Kadaga is under pressure to delay enactment of the NSSF Bill, the Worker’s MP Dr. Sam Lyomoki has claimed. He disclosed this at a press briefing at parliament where he spent a night in the chambers to protest the delayed enactment …
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Jinja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT Police have dispersed traditional healers who had gathered to construct a shrine in Bujjagali village in Budondo ward in Jinja city citing breach of the Covid19 preventive guidelines. Led by the new Bujjagali oracle, Hassan Kirunda, the traditional healers from different districts of Busoga Sub region …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Persons with Disability- PWDs want the number of representatives in Parliament increased from five to eight. The PWD League of the Inter-party Organization for Dialogue-IPOD say that the positions should be distributed with each of the four regions represented by two including a male …
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Mityana, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Mityana District Covid-19 task force is on the spot for failing to pay 40 million shillings to a contractor who supplied more than 20 tons of maize flour. Following the outbreak of COVID-19, the government imposed a lockdown as one of the measures to …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Member of Parliament for Maracha East, James Acidiri says that he will be contesting under the independent ticket after falling out with the National Resistance Movement (NRM). Acidiri has been a member of parliament on the NRM ticket but his woes with the party …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Former Security Minister retired Lt. General Henry Tumukunde has petitioned the High Court Civil Division to quash the summons issued by police directing him to appear before the Criminal Investigations Directorate in Kibuli. According to Tumukunde, the summons issued by the Director Criminal Investigations …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Parliament has tasked the government to explain why private teachers under Lockdown have not received their SACCO funds which were promised by President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni. In his last national address on COVID-19, President Museveni promised to inject 2 billion Uganda shillings into the Private …
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