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By Priscilla Muhairwe Safaricom features among the most innovative companies in the world in 2013 listing as number 9. Its innovations starting with M-pesa a mobile money service, which was launched In April 2007, following a student software development project from Kenya, their innovative thinking and clever product implementation which strives …

By Priscilla Muhairwe Leonah Mborimpa the Corporate communication Officer of NITA says “ National Information Technology Authority,[NITA] is partnering with Uganda Communication Commission and International Telecommunication Union on another project still in the pipeline to enable the effectiveness of innovation in the country to be called UG- CERT [Uganda- Computer …

By Aloysious Kasoma Opposition Uganda People’s Congress and Democratic Party have called on leaders to emulate the courage of the Pope to resign where it is necessary. While addressing Journalists in separate press conferences in Kampala on Tuesday and Wednesday, DP’s Kenneth Kakande said that it is good to resign …

By Julius Odeke The Vice president of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party Salaamu Musumba has been released from police cells where she had been remanded a few hours before the Butaleja by-elections. The FDC’s spokesman Wafula Oguttu also an MP for Bukhooli Central told The Independent that, “Musumba …

By Julius Odeke Prof John Ddumba-Ssentamu has clarified on the policy Makerere University adopted that has led to students striking. In a press report that was released a day after the students strike, it says a section of the University students demonstrated on Feb. 11 over the implementation of the …

By Julius Odeke The Woman Member of Parliament for Butaleja district Florence Andiru Nebanda says her focus the moment she joins parliament is to modernize agriculture so that the people can fight poverty in their households. In an interview with The Independent she says agriculture is one of the projects …

By Aloysious Kasoma Makerere University students have vowed to continue striking if the government doesn’t look into the university conditions. The students want the government to order the university to scrap off the 60% payment policy introduced by the university last month. According to Kata Ivan the university Guild President, …

By Aloysious Kasoma Opposition Democratic Party has accused president Museveni of hijacking parliament whenever issues of accountability and corruption arise. Democratic Party Deputy Spokesperson Kenneth Kakande said that the president is protecting corrupt officers which will lead to the country’s loss of billions from the donors. “Museveni is also involved …

By Ronald Musoke Judith Payne, the e-business Advisor at USAID in Washington has reminded agriculture-dependant countries like Uganda to harness the potential of Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) if their farmers are to improve their livelihoods. With about 70% of Ugandans believed to derive their livelihood directly from agriculture, Payne said …

By Julius Odeke Police on Sunday evening at around eight o’clock moved swiftly and arrested the Vice President for Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) Proscovia Salaamu Musumba on allegation that they were distributing basic commodities to voters. Musumba who was in the company of five other FDC district officials including …