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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  | Drug maker Cipla Quality Chemicals industries limited has issued a profit warning, informing shareholders and people who intend to buy its shares that it will record a loss for period between April to September, 2019. The company says this is due to low sales of …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  | The remains of former Commissioner of Police, Christine Alalo will be laid to rest at the ancestral home of her late husband, Alex Kamujuni Ahimbisibwe in Ntungamo district. Alalo died together with 158 other people following an Ethiopian Airline crash after takeoff from Bole International …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  | Uganda National Roads Authority-UNRA has come under fire from road users for failing to repair drainage channels along Ntungamo –Rukungiri road. The most affected areas are in Rutunguri, Kagarama town council, Nyamunuka town council and Kyangara. The situation has been worsened by the onset of …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  | The Education and Sports Ministry is considering vigorous reforms into the vocational professional’s framework to improve the competences of trainees. Dr. Safina Kisu Museene, the Commissioner Business, Technical and Vocational Education and Training-BTVET in the Education Ministry, says the proposed adjustments are intended to produce …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  | Absa Bank Uganda has officially received its license from Bank of Uganda, dropping the Barclays brand tag. Absa Uganda interim boss Nazim Mahmood together with other bank’s executive received the license from the Central Bank on Monday. Mahmood told reporters that “there will be no …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  | The Uganda Law Society-ULS has withdrawn its application challenging Rwanda Government’s decision to close its Chanika and Gatuna borders. The application was withdrawn on Monday by ULS lawyers led by Simon Peter Lukuya, before the panel of three Judges of the East African Court of …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  | Rights activists have called for stringent measures to safeguard children against neglect. In Gulu, the number of children being neglected by their parents is on the raising concerns among the public and rights activists that local law enforcement authorities and police are failing to contain …

Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  Acholi religious leaders have mourned Bishop Emeritus of Kitgum Diocese, Benjamin Ojwang, who died on Monday. Bishop Emeritus Ojwang, 67, succumbed to high blood pressure and diabetes. In September, he suffered a stroke. The Bishop of Kitgum Diocese, Rev. Wilson Kitara, who served under Ojwang’s …

Masaka, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  Masaka Elders Savings and Credit Cooperative Society – SACCO Limited has lost at least 399.7 million shillings to fraud, a special financial audit has revealed. An audit report by Felbright and Company auditors read before the SACCO’s special general meeting convened in Masaka has revealed …

 Lamwo, Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  Uniports erected by the Uganda Police Force to accommodate officers at Lokung Sub county headquarters police post in Lamwo District are lying idle. The four Uniports were erected shortly after Lokung Sub County headquarter was relocated to Kila Kony Paco Village in Licwa Parish …