Hoima, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police in Hoima is holding a cleaner attached to Butema health center III in Buhanika sub county for allegedly selling COVID-19 vaccination cards to unvaccinated persons. The suspect is Ivan Bigirwa. The suspect was nabbed on Sunday afternoon while allegedly executing the dubious business at …
Read More »Nakasongola pupils to resume studies in tents
Nakasongola, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | At least 265 pupils of Moone Primary School in Nakasongola district will have to study under tents when they resume studies in a few days’ time following the rising water levels in Lake Kyoga, which led to the collapse of their classrooms. The water levels …
Read More »Apac district proposes UGX 200,000 fine for parents whose children don’t return to school
Apac, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Apac district council has resolved to arrest and fine parents who will refuse to send their children back to school as schools reopen on Monday next week. President Yoweri Museveni in his recent address to the nation okayed school reopening. In a comprehensive school reopening …
Read More »Joint security forces kill 85 cattle rustlers in Karamoja region
Moroto, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Joint security forces killed 85 Karimojong cattle rustlers during disarmament operations in Karamoja region last year. Michael Longole, the Karamoja Regional police spokesperson says the security forces gunned down the rustlers in different clashes and ambushes between January and December 2021. He also revealed that …
Read More »Uganda Airlines faces turbulence soon after take off
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda Airlines, like many of its counterparts in the region will have to cater for two new challenges. That is, the ban on flights by destination markets as well as the plans by bigger and older airlines to re-dominate the market. Less than three months …
Read More »Three killed in Kasese boda boda accident
Kasese, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Three people died on the spot in an accident along Kilembe road in Base Camp Ward, Kasese municipality on Sunday resulting from a head-on collision involving two boda boda riders. Eyewitness blamed the incident on reckless riding on the part of both riders. The deceased …
Read More »SCHOOLS: Education ministry releases new re-opening plan for Wakiso, Mukono and Kampala
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Education and Sports together with stakeholders from KCCA, Wakiso, Mukono, and Mpigi have agreed on a staggered returning to school for boarding schools. The re-opening plan for boarding students in Primary and Secondary Schools in the districts of Kampala, Wakiso, Mpigi, …
Read More »Suspect commits suicide in Bukedea police cells
Bukedea, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A murder suspect has allegedly committed suicide inside Bukedea police cells and the other died under mysterious circumstances in a search with the police. The two were suspects in the murder of Francis Opolot that occurred on Christmas in Akunyuko village, Kachumbala sub county in …
Read More »LOP pledges on better researched debate
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Opposition in Parliament will debate from a better researched and informed point of view going forward, their leader pledged. Mathias Mpuuga, the Leader of the Opposition (LOP) and also Nyendo-Mukungwe Division MP, was speaking at a dinner he hosted for his Cabinet and the …
Read More »Police investigates dropped leaflets in Hoima
Hoima, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The police in Hoima have heightened security after leaflets were dropped in different parts of Kyabigambire sub county. The leaflets were dropped by unknown people calling themselves members of the Bijambya group. They were found in the villages of Kisabagwa, Bugandale, Kasunga, Bineneza, Mparangasi, …
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