Just as the COVID-19 pandemic improved risk awareness amongst the public and enterprises of all sizes towards embracing insurance, so should the current global environment emphasise the need for Risk Management Products COMMENT | RAHMAH MASAGAZI | Even as humanity collectively embarks on the painstaking journey of recovery from …
Read More »East Africa Community must safeguard DRC for its own good
COMMENT | Nkwazi Mhango | I recently wrote a piece on what to do to avoid inter-member conflicts in the new East African Community (EAC). Sadly, nobody’s interested in it. It died an unnatural death. However, I still read about a simmering conflict between Kinshasa and Kigali over the M23, …
Read More »Man City hammer Chelsea, have eyes on Arsenal
⚽ FA CUP Man City 4 Chelsea 0 TODAY Oxford United vs Arsenal Manchester, UK | THE INDEPENDENT | Manchester City ensured progress through to the Fourth Round of the FA Cup – and a clash with either Oxford or Arsenal – after seeing off Chelsea 4-0 at the Etihad Stadium. …
Read More »McCarthy is new US House Speaker
Washington, US | XINHUA | The U.S. House of Representatives elected Congressman Kevin McCarthy as speaker early Saturday morning after a historic and embarrassing deadlock that kept the lower chamber from being fully functional days after the new Congress convened. McCarthy finally quelled a fierce rebellion among his party’s ranks …
Read More »LAMPARD: Stand up and play for Everton
FA CUP ⚽ Man Utd vs Everton Manchester, UK | EVERTONFC.COM | Frank Lampard insists his players must “stand up and play for Everton” to overcome their current disappointing run of form. The Blues return to action on Friday evening when they head to Old Trafford to face Manchester United in the …
Read More »UPDATE: 18 dead, 21 in hospital hit by blood shortage
Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | 21 victims of the Roblyn bus accident which occurred at Adebe cell in Kamdini Town Council early today have been admitted at St. John the XXIII Hospital Aber. Initially, 26 survivors including a four-year-old whose mother perished in the accident had been admitted to …
Read More »Gianluca Vialli 1964-2023
London, UK | THE INDEPENDENT | Italian and Chelsea football legend Gianluca Vialli has died aged 58. “Everyone associated with Chelsea Football Club is devastated to learn of the passing of Gianluca Vialli, our former player and manager, at the age of just 58,” Chelsea said in a statment. “As …
Read More »YEAR ENDER: 2022 was the year of ‘BUY ME A PHONE’
Today, the issue of the best handset tops everything else. You can find an unemployed person carrying an iPhone 13 or 14 and having no food or transport. COMMENT | ISAAC TEKO | Ever since the smart phone became a household item about a dozen years ago, I have bought …
Read More »KAMDINI ACCIDENT: 17 confirmed dead on Gulu-Kla road
Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | 17 people have been killed in an accident at Kamdini in Oyam District. The bus registration number UAT 259P traveling from Kampala to Kitgum through Gulu rammed into a trailer registration number UAZ 381A at around midnight at Adebe Cell, Western Ward in Kamdini Town council …
Read More »KAMDINI ACCIDENT: 15 feared dead on Gulu-Kla road
Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | At least 15 people are feared dead in an accident after a Roblyn Bus headed for Kitgum hit a parked trailer at Kamdini on the Gulu-Kampala highway just after midnight last night. DETAILS TO FOLLOW BREAKING.15 People have been confirmed dead from a nasty …
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