Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Three teenage students heading to Ndejje SS to get their recently released Uganda Certificate of Education (UCE) results have perished in a car crash. A fourth is in intensive care at Mulago. The four students, one of who was reportedly driving the Toyata Brevis, …
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Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | The Insurance Regulatory Authority (IRA) has so far issued eight certificates to banks to offer bancassurance (selling insurance policies) to their clients as one way of boosting the sector’s growth. Speaking at a press conference in Kampala on Feb.08, IRA officials including the Chief Executive …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The top stories in this week’s The Independent COVER STORY Saleh proposal on ministries will fail: Museveni is the problem, insiders say. THE LAST WORD Fashionable nonsense: How the debate on governance in Africa is a toxic combination of high emotion and little knowledge. …
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Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | The murder trial of Pine Car Bond proprietor Muhammad Ssebuufu resumed Thursday before the High court in Kampala with a witness identifying to court the accused as the person he saw torturing Donah Betty Katusabe in 2015. Ssebuufu and seven other people are accused of …
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Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | Property mogul Sudhir Ruparelia Thursday defended himself before the Land Probe Commission over accusations by Kololo Senior Secondary School that he grabbed their sports field along Lugogo bypass in Kampala, close to where his Kampala Parents Primary School is situated. Sudhir told the commission …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The case against controversial former Buyende District Police Commander ASP Muhammad Kirumira took yet another twist, when prosecution withdrew two charges of torture against him at the Police Tribunal. Prosecution told the tribunal at Naguru that they did not have witnesses to enable them …
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Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | President Yoweri Museveni has appointed 14 judges, four of whom who will serve at the Court of Appeal and 10 to the High court. Onto the Court of Appeal are Justices Christopher Madrama who has been serving at the Commercial Court, Steven Musota who has been …
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Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | The Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Alitwala Kadaga has directed the Auditor General John Muwanga to conduct a special audit into the account of the Treasury, to establish how and where the $200 million that was meant to purchase drugs was spent. Kadaga ruled on …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Education and Sports has confirmed that none of the Bridge Schools have been licensed because they have not yet met the requirements to operate in Uganda. In a statement dated February 6, Education Permanent Secretary Alex Kakooza said, “Bridge Schools …
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Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | Godfrey ‘Troy’ Wamala was Wednesday arraigned before Entebbe Magistrates Court and remanded to Kigo Prison on Ugandan musician Moses Ssekibogo aka Mowzey Radio murder charges. Troy is a businessman and a resident of Kyengera LC1, Nsangi Town council in Wakiso district, the same place where security operatives …
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