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Kadaga globetrotting to promote conference | THE INDEPENDENT | Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga is traversing the globe in last minute efforts to rally colleagues from other parliaments to converge on Kampala for the 64th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference (CPC). She was recently in Islamabad, Pakistani, for the Asia region Commonwealth …

The lender plans to focus on providing solutions that meet clients’ needs Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | Stanbic Bank has registered an increase in net profit by almost 40% to Shs134bn in the first six months ending June.30, according to its financial results released on Aug.05. This performance was …

Uganda Airlines needs to come up with a strategy that will enable it capture a share of the regional aviation market Kampala, Uganda | ISAAC KHISA | A fierce battle is looming in the East African aviation market as Uganda’s national carrier, Uganda Airlines, takes to the skies on August. …

Mutebile leads experts to analyse ways to maintain high growth Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | July has been a month of reflection by finance experts and economic technocrats on the future state of the economy as the new FY2019/20 kicked off. There is the nagging commentary that although Uganda …

William Pike’s account of the clash between Museveni’s utopia and Uganda’s hard reality THE LAST WORD |  Andrew M. Mwenda |  A The capture of power by President Yoweri Museveni’s National Resistance Movement (NRM) in January 1986 was a moment of great hope. Blood had been shed, lives lost, careers …

ANALYSIS: Get rich,for doing nothing in Uganda Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | Parliament usually holds leadership mentor-ship sessions for children and on June 19 it was the turn of prefects from Entebbe Junior School. Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Jacob Oulanyah, was the mentor of the day.  He spoke to them …

Six artists revolutionizing materiality and collaboration Materiality in art is often evoked by artists as a response to how different objects in the community can be used to produce art. In the recent joint exhibition by Dr. Lilian Nabulime (Uganda) and Maria Brinch (Norway), the artists ventured into experimenting on …

The gas coming out of the exhaust pipe of your vehicle should be colourless. That means the vehicle engine is behaving normally i.e. burning fuel and cooling as it should. Always look behind via the driving mirrors while driving. If you can see smoke in the mirror, suspect a problem. …

Both numbers may predict heart disease | THE INDEPENDENT | According to new research, both high systolic and high diastolic blood pressure can lead to heart attack and stroke. Heart disease and stroke are the leading causes of death worldwide. In Uganda, one in three adults suffers from high blood …

Hopefully it will reactivate the stalled process to get a salary review commission which has been long overdue COMMENT | Cissy Kagaba | We are pleased with the decision of the Supreme Court to uphold the 2016 ruling of the Constitutional Court decision that impugned Section 5 of the Parliament …