Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | ‘We must budget for compulsory primary school education and stop these greedy teachers from sending children back home’, President Yoweri Museveni has urged lawmakers. ( read full budget speech bottom) This was in his address to Parliament following the presentation of the 2022/2023 financial year budget …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministries of Education and Health have scrapped plans of vaccinating learners against COVID-19 in school. Over 16 million learners aged 5 to 17 years were supposed to get vaccinated against COVID-19. Previously, the ministries had planned to roll out mass vaccination campaigns in schools between …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Members of Parliament have each been given 40 million Shillings for unknown reasons at a time when the country is grappling with ever-increasing commodity prices. Speaking to Uganda Radio Network, a dozen of MPs majority of whom asked for anonymity to speak freely on the issue, …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Speaker Anita Among has urged accounting officers in ministries, departments, and agencies (MDAs) to ensure proper expenditure of the 2022/2023 budget. Parliament approved the Shs48.1 trillion budget for the financial year 2022/2023 on 20 May 2022. “All eligible accounting officers should ensure that value for money …
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Geneva, Switzerland | Xinhua | The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday that it will convene a meeting next week to assess whether the current monkeypox outbreak outside of the traditional endemic areas in Africa has already turned into a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC). “The global outbreak …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Justice Isaac Muwata has set July 5th, 2022 to hear the bail application of jailed city lawyer, Male Mabirizi. He set the date when Mabirizi appeared before the High Court Criminal Division on Tuesday and applied for mandatory bail on grounds that he has spent over …
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Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Gulu University Guild President Thomas Lapyem, has sacked three top officials of his cabinet for alleged corruption. They are Brenda Winny Atim, the Vice Guild President, Nelson Balaza, the Guild Prime Minister, and the guild finance minister Allan Erasmus Ongom. In his June 14th, 2022 …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Former Forum for Democratic for Change-FDC party president Dr. Kiiza Besigye was been arrested and transferred to Naggalama police station. Police arrested Besigye on Tuesday while he was addressing a rally at Nakivubo lane, Kampala city. Patrick Onyango, the Kampala Metropolitan Police Spokesperson said that Dr. …
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Kampala, Uganda | Patricia Akankwatsa | Canadian-based Ugandan author and mental health professional, Nathan Ssewaali launched his mental health book for children titled, ‘Lola and The Emotions Carousel’ which has received a lot of positive reviews across the world as many have referred to it as helpful to their children’s mental …
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Kampala, Uganda | Patricia Akankwatsa | Swangz Avenue’s Roast & Rhyme bounces back this July with a more prominent and fun parked out-of-town destination and an edition-themed, “Nyam on the Nile.” The countryside experience dubbed Roast and Rhyme Nyam on the Nile is going to be a fully packed weekend full …
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