Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Experts have expressed the need for equipping children with financial literacy skills to save and invest early in their lives. The experts were on Thursday speaking at the closing event of a donor-funded financial literacy programme for primary school children in selected schools in the Kampala Metropolitan …
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Nwoya, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Nwoya district is struggling to recover millions of shillings under the Parish Development Model (PDM) that were diverted by civil servants. According to an investigation conducted last month, 208 million shillings was found to have been diverted by civil servants in the district for other activities …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda is set to receive a hundred doses of a trial vaccine being developed to prevent the Ebola Sudan strain. Dr. Tegegn Woldemariam, the WHO country representative revealed this on Thursday at a weekly WHO Africa press conference. He explained that there are two trial drugs being …
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Fort Portal, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Moses Otimong, the Fort Portal city clerk was on Thursday arrested for alleged abuse of office. Otimong was arrested on the orders of the Deputy Inspector General of Government, Anne Twinomugisha Muhairwe. Muhairwe was in Fort Portal for a public hearing that was organized by …
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Adjumani, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | South Sudanese refugees in Pagirinya refugee settlement, Adjumani district are reaping big from cassava farming. Last year, a group of refugees at the settlement interested in farming were tipped of an intervention to conduct communal farming with the host community in Dzaipi sub-county. The initiative …
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Katakwi, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Extortion has been cited in the compensation of war debt claimants in the Teso sub-region. This was revealed to Members of Parliament on the Legal and Parliamentary Affairs committee during a probe into the compensation exercise undertaken by the Attorney General. Trade-Pro-Africa is one of the organizations …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Sugar manufacturers and cane growers have warned that the increased retail sugar prices in Uganda are to persist, with no hopes of decreasing soon. On average, sugar prices at retail now stands at 5,500 shillings a kilogram, up from an average of 4,000 shillings three weeks …
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Kapchorwa, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Farmers in Sebei and Elgon sub-region have embraced farming in the second season, following the reduction in the prices of fertilizers, a major input for crops. The price of a 50-kilogram bag of fertilizer in the first season was 300,000 Shillings but currently, it has reduced …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | As one of the strategies to further improve customer experience and deliver services to its customers conveniently, Equity bank has launched a high-tech contact centre. The new Contact Centre will allow the Bank to deliver improved support conveniently to the nearly 1.6 million customers 24/7. …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A number of used vehicles bearing number plates of government agencies including security are fast becoming common on Ugandan roads. Some of the common vehicles carrying number plates of the Ministry of Defense, Uganda People’s Defence Forces-UPDF, and Judiciary include Premio, Rav 4, Corona, Fielder, Hiace, …
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