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Mike Hillary Mutebi, in a professional football coaching career spanning over 20 years, has trained the national team Uganda Cranes , Simba FC, SC Villa, and KCC FC, and been involved in other projects like the famed Copa Coca Cola. “My two colleagues and I initiated Copa Coca Cola so …

INTERVIEW: Gerald Begumisa, the managing director of Yo Uganda Ltd, spoke to Flavia Nassaka about operating an ICT business in an economy where ICTs are still under developed. What are the key elements in your management style? My focus is value for shareholders. How this value is created is through …

Victor Ochen’s name was little known on a global scene until last year when he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.  At 34, he became the youngest African to be nominated for the prestigious global prize that was won by great historical figures like Martin Luther King.  Only coming …

With a wide smile, she embraces me like we have met before or as a friend she has not met in a long time. Sarah Ssentongo Kisauzi or Mama Nalweyiso for those who watch ‘Deception’ a TV series that airs on one of the local television stations, is nothing like …

Justice Catherine Elizabeth Bamugemereire is tough. Many people formed this image of her when she led the tribunal investigating affairs at Kampala City Council Authority (KCCA) in 2013 that found Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago incompetent. She was possibly toughest when leading the commission of inquiry into corruption and mismanagement at …

The Ambassador of France to Uganda, Sophie Makame speaks to The Independent’s Ronald Musoke about the relevancy today of the 227th anniversary of Bastille Day – the day when, on  July 14, 1789, an angry mob marched onto the Bastille prison and triggered the French Revolution. Why is the storming …

Tanga Odoi, the chairman of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) party’s Electoral Commission, is assertive to the point of abrasiveness.  The former university don attributes his confidence in dealing with situations directly and not fearing to take a stand from the kind of family he was raised. Odoi, who is …

Tanga Odoi, the chairman of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) party’s Electoral Commission, is assertive to the point of abrasiveness.  The former university don attributes his confidence in dealing with situations directly and not fearing to take a stand from the kind of family he was raised. Odoi, who is …

Barbara Itungo Kyagulanyi aka `Barbie’ has post pictures on social media of her braving the rain to save her bean harvest. She has also posted photos of her barefoot soaked in mud as she worked in her garden. Not many wives to celebrities would do this. Barbie is a mother …

Taking the church to the market place Rt Rev. Wilberforce Kityo Luwalira is a busy man. He heads the mother diocese of the Anglican Church in Uganda comprising 342 local churches but, perhaps due to the humble background and accepting Jesus Christ as his personal savior at a very young …