Moroto, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Local Council chairpersons in Karamoja sub-region are frustrated over the lack of official vehicles to execute their duties and monitor government programs. The LCV chairpersons say that they are forced to share motor vehicles with other departments in the district, especially the vehicles of Chief Administrative …
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Nakasongola, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | At least sixteen passengers have been injured in a bus accident along Kampala-Gulu highway. The sixteen were injured around 10pm on Monday when a coach belonging to Valley Bus Company Limited registration number UAR 655M, lost control and overturned in Bamusuuta village, Katuugo town council. The …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal by the government seeking to overturn a High Court decision ordering it to pay 50 Billion Shillings to a real estate company for canceling its land title. In a majority judgment written by Justice Christopher Gasharibake, the court …
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Justice Kakuru who wrote the main judgment agreed with the petitioners that the petition raises an issue for constitutional interpretation and that the section infringes on the freedoms provided for under article 29 of the constitution Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Constitutional Court has declared section 25 of the Computer …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The former Public Service Minister and Rukungiri district woman member of parliament, Prisca Sezi Bessy Mbaguta is dead. Mbaguta 77, breathed her last at her home in Nakasero Kampala this morning according to her son Brain Mbaguta. “We had supper together after she left us in …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Traffic Police have given boda boda riders a three day ultimatum to process driving licenses and procure crash helmets or else face arrest starting from Thursday this week. Assistant Superintendent of Police-ASP, Faridah Nampiima, the Traffic police spokesperson said a number of boda boda riders …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda National Roads Authority has announced plans to divert traffic from the clock tower junction along Entebbe road for two months starting January 14th up to March 14th, 2023. In its statement issued Monday, UNRA advises motorists from Entebbe to use the Lubiri Ring road and …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Kampala Metropolitan Criminal Investigations Department –CID have preferred 10 more counts against music promoter Abby Musinguzi, the proprietor of Abitex Promotions over the stampede at Freedom City Mall. Investigators led by Kampala Metropolitan Police Criminal Investigations Department boss Bob Kagura, say that the cases result …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The police Flying squad in the Albertine region has arrested five suspected car thieves who have been terrorizing area residents in the region. According to information obtained from police by URN, the suspects are linked to the theft of nine cars that were stolen in the …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Legislators from Acholi sub-region have tasked Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja to summon the proprietor of Roblyn Coaches Ltd over an accident involving one of their buses that claimed the lives of 18 passengers. A least 21 other passengers sustained severe injuries following the accident that occurred …
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