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07 Mar '26
Pharmacists and individuals taking a commonly prescribed hypertension medication are being urged to immediately inspect their packaging. Crescent Pharma Limited is withdrawing one batch of Ramipril 5mg Capsules as a precautionary step following a potential production fault that may have resulted
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07 Mar '26
Safeboda for instance, questioned how riders from areas such as Najjera or Kira would complete trips to destinations within the central business district if bodabodas are prohibited from accessing key areas.Stakeholders in Kampala’s transport sector have raised questions about the implem
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07 Mar '26
Nebbi, Uganda: Tension escalated at Nebbi District Headquarters on Thursday after district councillors forcefully closed the office of Chief Administrative Officer Dorothy Ajwang, accusing her of incompetence and failure to execute her duties.The councillors stormed the district premises a
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07 Mar '26
Equity Bank has temporarily closed its Oasis branch in Kampala due to flooding in the area and says it will reopen once it is safe to resume operations.Equity Bank has temporarily closed its Oasis branch in Kampala after flooding disrupted operations in the area.The bank informed cu
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07 Mar '26
KAMPALA – Teachers’ long-standing grievances over salary disparities have returned to the spotlight after the Uganda National Teachers’ Union (UNATU) confirmed it had received an invitation from the Ministry of Public Service for a consultative meeting on public servants’ pay and welfare.
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06 Mar '26
Mubende, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Deputy Speaker Thomas Tayebwa has pushed back against critics within the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) who have questioned his loyalty to the party.He says his 15 years of service and repeated election victories for the NRM demonstrate his lo
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06 Mar '26
Justice Kania ruled that it was unlikely that Henry Katanga, a right handed person intending to commit suicide, would shoot himself on the left side of his head,” and that the alternative trajectory proposed by Molly's defence would require awkward positioningMolly Katanga listening to t
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06 Mar '26
Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni has narrated how Besigye taught NRA fighters to use chloroform during Kabamba barracks attack.A trained medical doctor, Dr Kizza Besigye was Museveni’s personal physician and also treated combatants of the National Resistance Army (NRA) war that raged on
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06 Mar '26
The aircraft, scheduled to arrive this Thursday under an ACMI (Aircraft, Crew, Maintenance, and Insurance) agreement, will be operated by a 43-member Ethiopian Airlines crew, expected to arrive in Uganda today. Uganda Airlines has arranged a short-term solution to resume its suspended long
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06 Mar '26
Police have defended the fatal shooting of a young salon owner in Matugga, even as the family of the deceased demands justice, insisting he was wrongly killed.Beatrice Balireta, the mother of Amon Tindyebwa, who was shot dead by police on Wednesday morning, says her son was innocent and ha