Masindi, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Criminal Investigations Directorate-CID has arrested a man for masquerading as an official from Isimba prisons farm in Masindi district and conning nine people Shillings 100 million. CID spokesperson Charles Twine identifies the suspect as Gerald Muntuyera alias Rogers Akugizibwe. According to Twine, the …
Read More »UNRA delays evictions of northern bypass taxi operators
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Road users along the Kampala Northern bypass may continue to endure traffic jams and accidents as Uganda Road’s Authority (UNRA) delays the eviction of illegal taxi stages along the highway. The authority blamed traffic jams and accidents along Northern bypass on illegal taxi stages which …
Read More »PAC gives Butabika hospital ultimatum to present expenditure records
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee has given Butabika National Referral Hospital an ultimatum of one week to present records of implemented activities in the financial year 2018/2019. This followed the failure by the hospital administrators to explain why the hospital had recorded several unimplemented and …
Read More »General Tumukunde arrested in Njeru municipality
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Presidential aspirant ,General Henry Tumukunde has been arrested in Njeru municipality in Buikwe district. Tumukunde was picked up from Royal Paradise Hotel where he was meeting his campaign coordinators by police officers led by Hilary Mukiza, the officer in charge of Njeru police station. …
Read More »Retired police officers unwilling to vacate barracks
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Aswa river region police leadership has launched an outreach programme to sensitize retired police officers and their spouses to prepare for life outside Uganda Police force. This follows the failure by dozens of retired police officers to vacate police barracks after being discharged …
Read More »Construction of Hoima international airport boosts local business
Hoima, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The local business community in Kabaale parish Kabaale sub county Hoima district is cashing in on the ongoing construction of Hoima international airport. The construction works kicked off in April 2018 after government acquired a loan of US $309 million (about Shillings 1.1 trillion) …
Read More »Nakaseke taskforce asks contacts of Covid-19 patients to self-isolate
Nakaseke, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Nakaseke district taskforce has directed all contacts of covid-19 patients to self-isolate due to lack of resources to operate the quarantine centres. The district has registered nine positive cases of COVID- 19. The latest eight cases were registered at Kiwoko hospital after health workers tested …
Read More »Tear gas, bullets rock Kamwokya as NUP, NRM struggle to dominate ghetto
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | There were running battles between security and warring supporters of the ruling National Resistance Movement-NRM and National Unity Platform-NUP parties during village youth council elections in Kifumbira A and Kifumbira B in Kamwokya on Tuesday afternoon. Today’s chaos was a continuation of the tensions that …
Read More »Stable China-U.S. relations important for world development, says expert
Paris, France | XINHUA | Safeguarding and stabilizing the relations between China and the United States has an impact on peace, stability and development in the world, Sonia Bressler, a French writer and Sinologist, told Xinhua in an interview on Saturday. “The relations between China and the United States are …
Read More »President Museveni fulfills UGX 170m pledge to NRM leaders in Gulu, Omoro
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has fulfilled a pledge to support sub county NRM chairpersons and youth groups in Gulu and Omoro districts. The President had pledged 10 million Shillings, a pair of oxen and an ox-plough to each of the NRM sub-county chairpersons in the districts. …
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