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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Candidates vying for the newly introduced speaker’s seat at Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA have intensified campaigns as the election date draws closer. KCCA councilors go to the polls on March 5, 2020 to elect their pioneer speaker. Three councilors have expressed interest in the …

Soroti, Uganda  | THE INDEPENDENT |  The Teso Chief Papa Emorimor, Augustine Osuban Lemukol Adugala has finally named his new cabinet, more than three months after dropping the old cabinet.    Emorimor reshuffled his cabinet in November last year after attempts by some cabinet ministers to oust him. He later named …

Jinja, Uganda  | THE INDEPENDENT |  Jinja district officials have resolved to sell some dilapidated government buildings to raise money to finance the construction of their new headquarters. In 2015, the then Jinja district councilors resolved to selloff plot 1 on Busoga road at Shillings 2.5 billion to finance the construction …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Justin Portal Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury in United Kingdom has argued Church of Uganda to remain steadfast and in Communion with the entire church despite differences. He was speaking while giving his welcoming remarks during the enthronement of Dr. Stephen Kazimba Mugalu, the …

Masaka, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Masaka diocese catholic diocese has unveiled a historical museum that depicts the priestly life and works of Cardinal Emmanuel Wamala. The museum is found in his ancestral home in Kamaggwa village in Lwankoni Sub County in Kyotera district. The museum will act as a …

Bushenyi, Uganda  | THE INDEPENDENT |  The Bushenyi-Ishaka Municipal Town Clerk, William Makune is under the spotlight for alleged failure to account for over Shillings 100million collected in the first quarter of the 2019/2020 financial year. This prompted the Mayor and Councilors to close the municipal offices on Friday to get …

Buvama, Uganda  | THE INDEPENDENT |  Buvuma District authorities are concerned about the poor state of road connecting to out grower’s gardens ahead of the planting of palm oil seedlings. The National Oil Palm Project-NOPP is finalising preparations to receive about 36, 000 seedlings from Benin in March this year for …

Pader, Uganda  | THE INDEPENDENT |  The Acholi Paramount Chief, Rwot David Onen Acana II  is protesting the encroachment on Payira Royal clan land in Pader District. The land in question is found in Lacekocot Trading Centre in the newly created Atanga Town Council in Aruu North County. The land has been segmented …

Kampala, Uganda  | THE INDEPENDENT |  Makerere University School of Public Health (MakSPH) is to get a new home come 2025. The School, which currently operates in Mulago, has embarked on the construction of an eight storied facility valued at Shillings 30 billion next to Makerere University Eastern Gate. The School …

Kampala, Uganda  | THE INDEPENDENT |  Alex Ogwang, 24, a student with hearing impairment is now seeing light at the end of the tunnel after attaining sufficient marks to secure him government sponsorship on the affirmative slot for students like him. Ogwang dropped out of Kyambogo University in second year in 2017 …