Facts about the URA Tower ✅ 22 floor building ✅ Four podiums and eighteen tower floors ✅ Total 26,021 square metres ✅ Project cost sh 139 billion ✅ Car parking 12,923 square metres ✅ 5 levels for parking ✅ Car parking for 360 cars plus surface parking for 710 vehicles …
Read More »Land ownership wrangles threaten Wakiso schools
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The future of government aided schools in Wakiso District is uncertain as their founders reclaim part of the land they are occupying. Most of the government aided schools in Wakiso were founded by the church, community members and many others were built on land donated …
Read More »University staff demand arrears in January payment circular
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Staff at nine public universities in Uganda have asked the Ministry of Public Service to release a pay structure detailing a plan for their promised enhanced salaries. They say that the structure must include the outstanding salary enhancements balance of Sh29.5 billion which was never …
Read More »Bobi Wine questions Police motive for blocking his concerts
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kyadondo East Member of Parliament Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine has returned to Kampala following Saturday night’s dash with police in Jinja. Bobi Wine says residents made it impossible for police to arrest him. “After your raid, the Wanainchi in Jinja made it possible for …
Read More »Oulanyah urges Acholi sub-region to increase productivity
Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Deputy Speaker Jacob Oulanyah has asked the Acholi sub-region to increase productivity as a tool to eradicate poverty and place the region on the right pedestal to prosperity. Oulanyah said unlike the struggle against past insurgencies, the campaign against poverty can now be waged …
Read More »Uganda’s popstar MP ‘hiding’ from police after raid: lawyer
Kampala, Uganda | AFP | Ugandan popstar turned opposition lawmaker Bobi Wine is in hiding after police raided a hotel he was staying in ahead of a concert, his lawyer said Sunday. Bobi Wine, whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi, had been due to perform at a concert in Jinja, …
Read More »UNEPI: 400,000 children not immunized
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | More than 400,000 children under the age of five years were not immunized in the last three years. This is according to the Uganda National Expanded Program on Immunization-UNEPI has revealed. Records from the January 2015 to October 2018 indicate that over 100,000 children have …
Read More »Former LRA abductees get free vocational training in Gulu
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Thirty former Lord’s Resistance Army-LRA abductees in Gulu district have been empowered to create jobs after graduating in vocational skills courses. The youth undertook the courses in carpentry and garment designs at Terra Renaissance training centre in Gulu Town. On Thursday, the trainees received start-up …
Read More »BoU fails to explain Crane bank evaluation report
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Bank of Uganda officials have failed to justify the absence of an evaluation report of the assets and liabilities of Crane Bank Limited before its sale to DFCU. The irregularity was queried by the Auditor General in his 2017 forensic audit report. According to the …
Read More »Uganda secures Sh16bn to boost coffee, cocoa exports to EU
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda has received a grant of sh16 billion to boost exports of coffee and cocoa to the European Union and other global markets. Finance minister Matia Kasaija and the EU head of delegation Attilio Pacifici signed the financing grant agreement this morning in Kampala. The …
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