Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Makerere University managers are not contented with the decision of the university appointments board, suspending Dr. Deus Kamunyu Muhwezi for six months on half pay. Through the university legal directorate, the university management has cross appealed the Board decision at the Makerere University Staff Appeals …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Despite resuming the review of the audited accounts of Uganda Revenue Authority-URA on Thursday, the Committee on Commissions, Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises-COSASE still has a huge task ahead. The Committee has to review the URA audited accounts for the 2013/2014, 2014/2015, 2015/2016, 2016/2017 and …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Government is in final stages of establishing national roaming guidelines that will enable telecom companies to fix mobile phone connectivity issues countrywide. National roaming refers to agreements among operators to use each other’s network to provide services in geographic areas where they have no …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | At least 68 cultural and heritage sites will be affected by the construction of the East Africa Crude Oil pipeline, URN has learnt. The oil pipeline will run from Hoima district to the Uganda-Tanzania border. The level of disturbance to the Heritage and cultural sites …
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Both numbers may predict heart disease | THE INDEPENDENT | According to new research, both high systolic and high diastolic blood pressure can lead to heart attack and stroke. Heart disease and stroke are the leading causes of death worldwide. In Uganda, one in three adults suffers from high blood …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A total of 103 properties belonging to Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA could have been mysteriously sold. Key among the properties is M.162 Ntinda Industrial area, occupied by Imperial estates limited, Plot 6 Commercial Road Ntinda occupied by Nalis Byarugaba, Plot 11 Summit View Road occupied …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Drug resistance to the first line HIV treatment is on the rise in Uganda, according to a report published by the World Health Organization-WHO. Findings from a survey carried out between 2014-2018 show increasing resistance to Efavirenz and Nevirapine, the fine line HIV treatment. The …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | People with Disabilities (PWDs) especially those with visual, speech and hearing impairments find challenges choosing the best contraceptives and other reproductive health services they need. This was revealed by health workers attending the annual reproductive, Maternal, Newborn health symposium today. The health workers say that …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Health workers conducting repairs on victims of obstetric fistula are concerned by the lack of spouse support for patients, a tendency that frustrates effective case management. Obstetric fistula is a health condition that leaves a hole between the birth canal and the bladder or …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Prof. Phinehas Tukamuhabwa, the head of Makerere University Research Institute at Kabanyolo –MUARIK has resigned, URN has learnt. Prof. Tukamuhabwa tendered in his resignation sometime last month and was accepted by the university appointments board at its 603rd meeting early this month. He is known …
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