Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Supreme Court has issued an interim order staying the execution of the Constitutional Court decision arising from the late Bob Kasango’s petition. The Constitutional Court Justices led by Justice Kenneth Kakuru on March 18 2021 unanimously ordered that a serving Judge should resign …
Read More »Education ministry fails to utilize $25million from World Bank for technical schools
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Education Ministry has been faulted for failing to kick-start a $25million World Bank funded project for four years despite the disbursement of funds. The five-year Albertine Region Sustainability Development Project III was designed to upgrade two technical Institutions; the Uganda Petroleum Institute Kigumba …
Read More »Bill seeking sh100,000 from Ugandans for health insurance passed by parliament
Health Insurance Bill ✳ A 1% deduction on salaries of the employed ✳ Those in informal sector to pay sh100,000 annually ✳ The approved Bill, now an Act of Parliament awaits assent by president Yoweri Museveni. Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Parliament has passed the National Health Insurance Bill. The …
Read More »One dead, 7 injured as Fuso crashes into NWSC offices
Luweero, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | One person has been confirmed dead and seven others injured when a FUSO Truck Registration Number UBE-042A lost control and rammed into the offices of the National Water and Sewerage Corporation in Luweero district. The truck, loaded with Bricks swerved off the Luweero-Kiwoko …
Read More »Breastfeeding candidates sit for PLE in Arua City and Serere
Arua, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A 15-year- old girl was among the candidates who wrote her Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE) at Arua Prisons Primary School, Arua City. The girl who is a mother of a one-month-old baby gave birth during the lockdown when schools were closed following the outbreak …
Read More »PLE: UNEB official arrested after exam container keys go missing
Masaka, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The police in Kyotera have arrested the UNEB manager for PLE station 53 in Kalisizo. It is said that Irene Namono disappeared with the key to the exam container at Kalisizo police station for several hours and was nowhere to be seen by 8:45 am …
Read More »Parliament declines to withdraw National Health Insurance Bill
PARLIAMENT | Isaac Senabulya | Parliament has declined to support a proposal by the Ministry of Finance to withdraw the National Health Insurance Scheme Bill 2019 which is before the house for processing. The bill was before the house for the first and second reading and a presentation of a report …
Read More »Stanbic Uganda announces 2020 financial results
✳ Loans and advances grew by 27% from Sh2.8 trillion (2019) to Sh3.6 trillion (2020) ✳ Customer deposits increased by 16% from Sh4.7 trillion (2019) to Sh5.4 trillion (2020) ✳ Profit After Tax was Sh242 Billion (2020) down from Sh259 Billion (2019) largely due to the impact of Covid-19 Pandemic on client …
Read More »CCM party confirms VP Dr Mpango, swearing in tomorrow
✳ Mpango’s Career ▪ 1980-1980 Public relations assistant, National Provident Fund ▪ 1980-1981 Research assistant, Elimu Supplies Ltd ▪ 1984-1988 Economist, Ministry of Labor ▪ 1988-2002 Economics Lecturer Dar-es-Salaam University ▪ 2002-2006 Senior Economist World Bank ▪ 2007-2009 Economic advisor to the President, President’s Office ▪ 2009-2010 Deputy Permanent Secretary, Ministry …
Read More »Tanzania’s Suluhu nominates Dr Mpango for Vice Presidency
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | THE INDEPENDENT | The Tanzanian Finance Minister who was last month struggling for his life at Benjamin Mkapa hospital in Dodoma, has been nominated by President Samia Suluhu to become the country’s next Vice President. Suluhu nominated Dr Philip Isdor Mpango to Tanzania’s Chama Cha …
Read More »