Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Hoima Sugar Limited is on the spotlight for allegedly breaching the National Environmental Management Authority-NEMA guidelines issued to the company. The company leased close to 22 square miles of the contested Bugoma Central Forest Reserve land from the Bunyoro-Kitara Kingdom for sugarcane growing for 99 years. …
Read More »Ready for Export confronts labour export and Western dominance dilemma
Aloka creates figurative paintings that invite interrogation on the controversial subject of Africa’s skilled lobour export to the developed world Kampala, Uganda | DOMINIC MUWANGUZI | With Brain drain as a modern day trend that is widely blamed for robbing the African continent of its skilled professional labour, especially the …
Read More »Oil prices rebound from nearly 9-month low
New York, U.S. | Xinhua | Oil prices rose on Tuesday after hitting their lowest levels since January in the prior session. The West Texas Intermediate for November delivery increased 1.79 U.S. dollars, or 2.3 percent, to settle at 78.5 dollars a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Brent crude …
Read More »Traders petition Parliament over cost of doing business
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Traders under the Kampala City Traders Association (KACITA) have petitioned the Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Thomas Tayebwa, on the high costs of doing business and prayed that government stops selective giving of tax waivers. KACITA led by their Chairperson, Thadeus Musoke, said that following the …
Read More »Museveni cautions EU parliament over EACOP
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has asked the European Parliament to stay away from Uganda’s oil industry and learn to be tolerant of other people. This comes as the debate of the EU Parliament resolution that called for the halting of the Uganda crude export pipeline earlier …
Read More »Omukama Iguru unhappy with EU parliament’s resolution on EACOP
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Omukama of Bunyoro Kitara Kingdom His Highness Dr. Solomon Gafabusa Iguru Agutamba Rukirabasaija is not happy with the EU Parliament over a resolution to stay the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) for a year. The EU Parliament wants the entire EACOP project delayed …
Read More »Health officials rule out Ebola outbreak in Kyangwali refugee settlement
Kikuube, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Health officials have ruled out an outbreak of Ebola in Kyangwali refugee settlement area in Kikuube district. There was panic among refugees at the settlement after two of the refugees presented with symptoms similar to those of Ebola. The patients both men aged 40 and …
Read More »NSSF to unveil 550 housing units at Temangalo in 2024
Kampala, Uganda | PATRICIA AKANKWATSA | Uganda’s National Social Security Fund plans to unveil the first 550 housing units at its Temangalo housing project for sale in 2024 as it seeks to tap into the growing demand for accommodation in the Kampala Metropolitan Area. NSSF Managing Director Richard Byarugaba said …
Read More »IGP issues warning to private security companies over lone guard deployment
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Inspector General of Police Martin Ochola, has warned private security companies that have not heeded the order of deploying two guards per station to minimize incidents of being targeted by thugs. Ochola in what he has termed as ‘final warning’ issued on his …
Read More »Housing Finance Bank launches online Govt Securities portal that allows customers to invest on the go
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Today, Housing Finance Bank officially launched its Government Securities Portal with a campaign dubbed” Invest On The Go” at Mestil Hotel and Residences, Kampala. The online portal, which is housed on the Bank’s website allows customers to buy Treasury Bills and Bonds from …
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