Luweero, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | The Acting Luweero Resident District Commissioner Miriam Kagaiga Mugisha has been put to task to explain the selective enforcement of COVID-19 guidelines among persons campaigning for various political offices in the area.  Many of the residents and aspirants say that the Office of the RDC …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | The Kingdom of Tooro has signed a Memorandum of Understanding-MoU with Uganda Industrial Research Institute- UIRI to establish an industrial research institute and specialized industrial park in Tooro. The park, valued at USD 100 million (366 billion Shillings), will be named the King Oyo Science, …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | A 19-year-old has picked presidential nomination papers from the Electoral Commission.  Hillary Humphrey Kaweesa who picked the forms on Wednesday is in Senior Six vacation, and a former student of Mengo Senior Secondary School.  Kaweesa says that he attained three principal passes in the 2019 …

As COVID-19 lockdown measures hit agriculture, construction and industry Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | For the first time since February, the headline Stanbic Bank Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) crossed into positive territory recording a reading of 50.3 during July, up from 46.5 in June. This is a significant recovery …

Market executives anticipate good performance as COVID-19 threat is minimized Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | Trading in the second quarter of 2020 at the Uganda Securities Exchange registered a tremendous decline as  Uganda’s  equity  markets  continued  to  feel  the  impact  of  COVID-19  pandemic, according to the quarterly bulletin for …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda People’s Defense Forces –UPDF has barred Local Defense Unit–LDU personnel from daytime security operations. A statement by the newly appointed Defense Ministry Spokesperson, Brig Flavia Byekwaso, says although LDUs who have completed a fresher training are going to be redeployed, their role is restricted …

Gulu, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | The Acholi Paramount Chief Rwot David Onen Acana II has decried inadequate funding which is hindering operations of the Chiefdom. Some building projects of the institution at its headquarters in West Division of Gulu City are on a standstill.  The chiefdom’s programs to conduct sensitization …

Kabale, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | A 43-year-old man accused of hacking two people to death and injuring two others in Kabale District has been arrested.    John Mugisha, a resident of Nyamugoma village, Kaharo parish in Kaharo Sub County on Sunday hacked to death his stepmother, Jacenta Birungi and his …

 Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | The Makerere University Staff Appeals Tribunal has quashed the dismissal of Dr Juma Anthony Okuku, a Senior Lecturer at Makerere’s Department of Political Science in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences –CHUSS. The Tribunal has ordered his immediate reinstatement into the University Service from …

Rubanda, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  A village chairman in Rubanda District is on the run after stabbing the defence secretary. Deus Bonane, the Hamurara village Local Council One Chairman in Bubaare sub-county, Rubanda district reportedly stabbed the defence secretary Moses Tumusiime during a fight on Sunday night.  Tumusiime, who …