Luwero, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Leaders in Luwero district have demanded that the criteria used to allocate funds in the Parish Development Model programme be revised. Effective next month, the government will roll out the Parish Development model across the 10,694 parishes in Uganda. According to the national budget, …
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Luwero, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police in Luwero district have arrested a woman for allegedly beheading her own one-week old child. The suspect has been identified as Aidah Naluyange, aged 30 years, a resident of Kakinzi village in Butuntumula sub county. She is accused of cruelly beheading her own child …
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Luwero, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Maize millers and traders in Luwero town council have pleaded with Uganda National Bureau of Standards-UNBS to extend the deadline for certification saying they are ill-prepared. UNBS issued an ultimatum of June 30th this year for maize millers and maize flour traders to secure standard …
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Luwero, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Luwero district council has passed a resolution requiring each civil servant and elected leader to contribute at least 5000 shillings per month towards the construction of district headquarters. Three years ago, Luwero district leaders embarked on the construction of the four-storied building to accommodate district headquarters. …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Deputy Chief Justice Richard Buteera has rejected a proposal by Chief Magistrates in Greater Luwero to organize inter-jurisdictional session hearings to clear the case backlog. According to the case backlog report by Luwero Chief Magistrate’s Court, there are 491 cases as of May 5th 2021. …
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Luwero district recorded 73 cases of homicides Luwero, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Atleast 107 people died from unnatural causes in Luwero in 2020, the annual district crime report has revealed. According to the district report, road crashes claimed 25 lives, 13 died in mob justice, 6 people committed suicide and 2 …
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Luwero, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Local leaders in Luwero district have demanded for erecting of humps along Kampala-Gulu highway to prevent rampant accidents in the area. There are increasing accidents in Luwero district on a section of the Kampala-Gulu highway that have left some 15 people dead and scores injured …
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Luwero, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Glowing tributes to Dr. Cyprian Kizito Lwanga the now fallen Archbishop of Kampala Archdiocese dominated the Easter sermons in Luwero Anglican and Kasana-Luwero Catholic Dioceses. Christians who flocked churches in Kasana-Luwero and Luwero diocese to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ were grief …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The ministerial zonal offices in Wakiso and Luwero district are the most problematic land offices in Uganda according to Lands Minister Beti Olive Kamya. Since 2015, the Ministry of Lands has upgraded 23 land offices into ministerial zonal offices, a move aimed at taking services …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | There was drama at Luwero Diocese guest house in Luwero town on Thursday after policemen besieged a meeting called by State Minister for Tourism Godfrey Kiwanda to arrest district official of National Resistance Movement party who is accused of embezzlement. Kiwanda who is also NRM …
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