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21 Mar '26
Katuramu & Company, a surveying firm, has been ordered to pay Centenary Bank Shs 521 million for misleading the bank into extending a loan to a client without conducting proper due diligence on the land offered as security.The case started in December 2021 when Hasifa Namulondo applied
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19 Mar '26
Marshall Alenyo is shaping up to be one of the most closely watched members of the 12th parliament.An eloquent lawyer by trade, he was recently elected as the MP for Jonam County in Pakwach district. For many, the real question isn’t how he got there, but how far he can go. In Kampala’
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10 Mar '26
A thunderous alarm has been sounded over Uganda’s lifeline for public medicines after the latest report from the Auditor General ripped open the operations of the National Medical Stores, exposing a web of operational failures, delayed drug deliveries, expired medicines worth billions and deep-
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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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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
She was defamed and, for months, character-assassinated by TikTok bully Dean Lubowa Saava but Deputy IGG Ann T Muhairwe on Thursday had the last laugh inside the Makindye chief magistrates court.Those days convinced he was the most powerful communicator in Kampala, Saava relentlessly attac
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04 Mar '26
Liverpool lost 2-1 to Wolves after Andre's 94th-minute winner at Molineux (Image: Getty)If Liverpool begin next season with Mohamed Salah and Cody Gakpo as their starting wingers, something has gone wrong. That is not easy to say. In their Anfield careers, the pair have made major contribu
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04 Mar '26
Uganda has long maintained that it will not host foreign military bases on its soil, a position President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni says is rooted in the country’s belief that it can defend itself without external armies.Museveni’s remarks have gained renewed attention as tensions escalat
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02 Mar '26
Museveni warned that while he was open to appointing youths in his next government, young people must not to “confuse biology with ideology”, and that being young does not automatically translate into clarity of purpose or sound leadership.President Yoweri Museveni has cautioned agains
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25 Feb '26
Jennifer Bamuturaki, Former Uganda Airlines CEOUganda is the only peaceful country where everyone is free to trade any baseless accusation without being remorseful after developing any disagreement.When President Museveni gave a job to Mrs Jennifer Bamuturaki, that was the beginning