🔵 UGC Captain’s Bell Tournament Category winners: ✳ Men -Dickson Agaba – 40 points ✳ Ladies – Bernadette Musanabera – 41 points ✳ Professionals – Deo Akope – 140 strokes Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Dickson Agaba, Bernadette Musanabera and Deo Akope were crowned champions of the 2022 Absa bank …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Lois Aber Kwikiriza has been appointed the new Head of Marketing at MultiChoice Uganda. Kwikiriza takes on the mantle from Colin Asiimwe who has been at the helm of marketing at MultiChoice Uganda for the last two years. While welcoming the newly appointed Head …
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Ankara, Turkey | Xinhua | Turkey currently hosts 4,082,693 refugees, 3,762,686 of whom are Syrians, Turkish deputy Interior Minister Ismail Catakli was quoted by daily Hurriyet as saying on Sunday. As many as 323,859 irregular migrants have been deported during the last 5 years, he said. In 2022, a total …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Curriculum Development Centre (NCDC) is set to collaborate with Teachers Associations to train more teachers on the revised Lower Secondary Curriculum in schools. The government through the Ministry of Education rolled out the new lower secondary education curriculum in February 2020 intending …
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Jinja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The mutilated and beheaded body of a prominent businessman in Jinja City has been found in a sugar plantation, with all indications that he was subjected to ritual sacrifice. Now Police in Busoga East are investigating circumstances under which the 53-year-old George Waidha, a …
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | Xinhua | The Ethiopia Ministry of Trade and Regional Integration (MoTRI) has announced a decision to hike gas prices by 16 percent starting Sunday. The ministry said in a press statement released Saturday evening that the price hike would see gas prices rise from 31.74 Ethiopian …
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Fort Portal , Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Traffic police statistics show 118 people were killed in road crashes between April 24 and May 4th. This translate into 12 people or more losing their life every day. Of these road deaths, 28 people died on the same day of May …
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Kwania, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Farmers in Atongtidi sub-county Kwania district in northern Uganda are worried about the outbreak of fall armyworms. Fall army worms also known as a butterfly are pest species that attack over 80 varieties of crops including maize, sorghum, sugarcane, cotton, rice and wheat among …
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Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Archbishop of Gulu, John Baptist Odama has called on aspirants in the Omoro County by-elections to promote harmony. Archbishop Odama urged political parties and their candidates to denounce and desist from politics of divisionism, abuses, and hate speeches as they seek to replace …
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Lira, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Speaker of Parliament Anita Among has donated sh20 million towards the establishment of Lira City Women SACCO. The cash donation was handed over to the Lira City Woman MP Jane Aceng Ocero who is also the Minister of Health by Mary Goretti Kitutu, …
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