Fort Portal, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Seven teachers in Fort Portal Tourism City were arrested on Thursday morning for failure to wear masks as schools reopened for finalists. The teachers were picked up as Kabarole Resident District Commissioner– RDC, Steven Asiimwe moved around schools to ensure strict adherence to …

Rubanda, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |   Candidates in Rubanda district on Thursday flouted the Covid-19 preventive guidelines during the nomination exercise.  According to the nomination guidelines issued by the Electoral Commission, the candidates are supposed to wear masks, have a manageable number of people who can social distance and sanitize.  …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |   The U-17 Women national football team is upbeat about their forthcoming U17 Women’s World Cup qualifying match with Cameroon.  The team entered residential training at IUIU Female campus Kabojja on Monday last week but was relocated to Cranes Paradise hotel. Currently, the team conducts …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |   The Electoral Commission has nominated six aspirants for the Kampala Woman Member of Parliament position. Seven aspirants booked appointments to be nominated as Kampala Woman MP, but the Electoral Commission Returning Officer for Kampala, Fredrick Muwaya has today nominated six by close of nomination. …

Moroto, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Police have stormed City Friends Hotel in Moroto municipality and picked up all the lodgers following the theft of a laptop belonging to a senior police officer containing sensitive information.  Heavily armed police officers stormed City Friends Hotel around 6:30 am on Thursday morning …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |   School authorities plan to use the first days to reorient and counsel learners following their return to school after a six month’s break because of the nationwide lockdown.  Various school leaders say they have realized learners need counselling and psychosocial support before actual learning …

Jinja, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |   More than 1,000 families whose houses were demolished to pave way for the Standard Gauge Railway construction in Jinja City have protested delayed compensation. The victims from the suburbs of Mpumudde, Mafubira, Bugembe and Kakira argue that, ever since SGR officials earmarked their property …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |   Nine candidates have so far been nominated to contest for the Rubaga South constituency seat.  They include former MP John Ken Lukyamuzi, Kato Lubwama the incumbent, National Resistance Movement- NRM flag bearer Male Charles Kenneth, National Unity Platform- NUP flag bearer Mukasa Aloysious Gold …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |   A man has died after being shot by Local Defense Unit-LDU personnel enforcing night-time curfew in Kamwokya city Suburbs.  Twenty-two-year-old Mark Lubowa breathed his last at Mulago National Referral Hospital on Wednesday evening where he had been admitted following the shooting. Information obtained by …

Jinja, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |   Police in Jinja city have arrested three people in connection to Wednesday night shooting at Crested Crane Hotel that left one of the persons on guard duty dead and three others seriously injured. It is alleged that, the assailant ambushed the guards who were …