Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Stephen Tumutegyereize, a former Makerere University lecturer who was dismissed with disgrace is seeking to overturn the decision citing unfair termination of his contract.  Tumutegyereize is among 45 Makerere university employees who were sacked in December 2018 by the University Appointments Board. The decision to …

Rukungiri, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Truck drivers in Rukungiri municipality have nowhere to answer nature’s call following their relocation by the authorities from Nabugabo stage to Ntungamo stage. The new stage has no toilet facility. The available facility is half way built by the municipal authorities. Charles Makuru, the Rukungiri …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Bunyangabu District council has blocked a proposal to buy a vehicle for the District Education Department. The Education Department has never received an official vehicle since the district was created in 2017. Last year, Bunyangabu District Education Committee submitted a proposal for the purchase of …

Moscow, Russia | AFP |  Armed with a selfie stick holding a dosimeter-equipped smartphone, nuclear physicist Andrei Ozharovsky is on the hunt for gamma radiation. Waving the device over a shallow dip in the thawing ground, the contraption crackles as the reading climbs, turning first yellow then red. The dosimeter is …

San Francisco, United States | AFP |  The US Department of Defense said Thursday it wants to reconsider its decision to award a multi-billion-dollar military cloud computing contract to Microsoft in a bidding process Amazon claims was tainted by politics. A judge last month issued an order at Amazon’s request temporarily …

Kampala, Uganda  | THE INDEPENDENT |  The presence of COVID-19 in the Democratic Republic of Congo is not something that Ugandans need to be worried about, according to the Ministry of Health. The country reported one case of the highly contagious disease in the capital-Kinshasha on Wednesday. The infected person is …

Kampala, Uganda  | THE INDEPENDENT |  The Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga has advised Members of Parliament to reconsider travels abroad as the world battles the worst Coronavirus -COVID-19.  Kadaga made the caution upon the cancellation of the 142nd Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) meeting that had been scheduled to take place between …

Kampala, Uganda  | THE INDEPENDENT |  Parliament has tasked seven ministries and agencies to present their policy statements on Monday.  Ministerial policy statements are documents that set out the performance and plans of government agencies, linking them with their policy objectives. The Budget Act (2001) provides that Parliament shall use these statements …

Kampala, Uganda  | THE INDEPENDENT |  The registration exercise of the National Resistance Movement-NRM Party members has been marred by irregularities in Rubanda district.  The exercise which started on Monday is part of the NRM’s roadmap ahead of 2021 general elections.  Party members allege that the district party chairperson, Henry Arigayira …

Kampala, Uganda  | THE INDEPENDENT |  A concerned citizen wants court to suspend the 2021 Elections general elections over fears of the Coronavirus pandemic. Abbey Mgugu in documents filed before the Civil Division of High Court on Thursday afternoon by his lawyers of Sanywa, Wabwire and Company Advocates, says that Uganda …