Auditor General Presents 2016/17 Audit Report to Parliament  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A worrying trend of financial indiscipline in some government departments resulting in massive corruption, excessive and unaccounted-for spending are the hallmarks of an audit report by the Auditor General. The report presented to the Speaker of Parliament …

Wenger compares George Weah’s life to film script London, United Kingdom | AFP |  Arsene Wenger has compared the life of George Weah to a film script following his former player’s election as president of Liberia. Weah, who played for Monaco, Paris Saint-Germain and AC Milan during a glittering career, …

  Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | The Public Accountants Examinations Board (PAEB) of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Uganda (ICPAU) has today released the November 2017 examination results conducted at seven centres across the country, showing a 1.4% improvement in performance when compared with the June – 2017 …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Retired Church of Uganda Archbishop Dr. Livingstone Mpalanyi Nkoyoyo who has been battling cancer, has passed on after a pneumonia attack. Reports just in indicate he died aged 80 on Friday morning at a Kampala hospital where he had been admitted in a critical …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | New Cranes coach Sebastien Desabre gets a first chance to see his team in action when they take on Guinea in a friendly ahead of CHAN 2018. Saturday’s game in Rabat will be followed by another against Congo, before real action starts next week. At CHAN …

Shanghai, China | AFP |  President Xi Jinping has issued a blunt call for China’s military to be ready for war and unafraid to die defending the country, as geopolitical tensions mount in Asia. Xi’s exhortation to the world’s largest fighting force, parts of which were revealed only late Thursday, …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The top stories in this week’s THE INDEPENDENT. COVER STORY Museveni defends ‘fake’ gold dealer: President snubs IGG, DPP, and Financial Crimes Unit. THE LAST WORD Uganda’s (Africa’s) paradox: Why youth unemployment and urban poverty is a sign of progress. NEW YEAR PREVIEW …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  The judiciary has described demonstrations at courts as “uncivilized behaviour” and urged anyone aggrieved to let institutions work. Responding to increased reported cased of groups protesting outside courts in Kampala,  Chief Registrar Gadenya Paul Wolimbwa described the action as an “unwarranted direct affront on the independence …

Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | Jailed senior police officer Joel Aguma has petitioned the High court’s Criminal Division challenging the decision by the Army Court in Makindye to decline to grant him bail on charges of kidnap. Aguma was in October Last year charged jointly  with eight other security …

Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | The case file about six suspended Members of Parliament (MPs) challenging the action of the Speaker to order them out of Parliament during the Constitutional Amendment Bill 2017 debate last month, has been called for by the Principal Judge Yorokamu Bamwine for perusal. This …