Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Minor offenders in remand homes will no longer travel to court for trial. The Justice Law and Order Sector-JLOS has decided to conduct court sessions at remand homes to avoid exposing the minor offenders to COVID-19 infection while seeking justice. Jane Stella Ogwang, the …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Lawyer Gloria Linda Nagami has sued the Electoral Commission for blocking more than one million citizens from participating in the electoral process. Nagami, 25 has filed her application before the High Court Civil Division with the help of public interest lawyers of Pace Advocates. She …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Eleven inmates have staged a successful breakout from Bukwo prisons and fled to Kenya. The inmates had been remanded to Bukwo prisons for various offenses. Uganda Prison Services Spokesperson Frank Baine told journalists at Uganda Media Center this morning that the inmates broke the …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Universities and other institutions of higher learning have asked the National Council for Higher Education to reconsider guidelines barring them from implementing e-learning teaching without all students. The idea of ensuring that the online mode of learning doesn’t exclude any continuing student was first …
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Kikuube, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | More than 500 families in Kikuube district are sleeping out in the cold following their eviction from Lake Albert shores. The families are affected by the second phase of the closure of illegal landing sites by Uganda People’s Defense Forces-UPDF, which kicked off on …
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Soroti, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police in Soroti are holding a man who claims to be a Uganda Peoples’ Defense Forces-UPDF Captain attached to the Chieftaincy of Military intelligence (CMI) for conning residents. Captain Iddi Moses Okello was picked up from his residence at Oderai trading center in Soroti …
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Luweero, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | At least 28 teenage girls in Luweero district are stranded with children and pregnancies after they were neglected by men during the COVID-19 lockdown. The girls aged between 14-17 years are from sub-counties of Kamira, Bamunanika, Wobulenzi, Luweero and Makulubita. Seven are stuck with …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Forum for Democratic Change- FDC party has rejected MP Nabillah Naggayi’s nomination forms, a blow to her attempt to contest for the position of Lord Mayor in Kampala using the party ticket. Nabilah, the current Kampala Woman MP had returned her nomination forms …
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Hoima, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | At least 2,425 elderly persons have been registered to benefit from the Social Assistance Grant for Empowerment-SAGE program in Hoima district. The State Minister for Gender and Culture who doubles as the Bunyangabu district Woman MP Peace Regis Mutuuzo says that the beneficiaries were …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Omukama of Bunyoro-Kitara Kingdom, Dr. Solomon Gafabusa Iguru has directed all kingdom ministers and county chiefs intending to join active politics to first resign. In his message delivered by the Prime Minister Andrew Byakutaga, the Omukama says the Kingdom is none political and …
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