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Drivers Urge Government to Improve Roads Before Enforcing Traffic Fines

Drivers Urge Government to Improve Roads Before Enforcing Traffic Fines

Drivers and motorists have called on government traffic enforcement teams to consider the condition of roads before imposing fines under the Express Penalty System (EPS).Speaking at a three-day consultative meeting in Jinja City, aimed at validating newly proposed EPS provisions, drivers a

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NIRA decries poor local language proficiency by applicants

NIRA decries poor local language proficiency by applicants

NIRA Registrar Clair Ollama says many applicants coming to their offices nowadays struggle to express basic cultural identity details, which affects service delivery.The National Identification and Registration Authority (NIRA) has raised concern over what it describes as declining knowled

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Iran: Israel military strikes Imam Hossein University

Iran: Israel military strikes Imam Hossein University

The Israel Defense Forces, IDF, has announced a strike on Imam Hossein University, describing it as the main military university affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, IRGC.According to the IDF, the institution allegedly operated under civilian cover while serving as a

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Kireka: Police Arrest Prime Suspect in Murder of Local Gov’t Official

Kireka: Police Arrest Prime Suspect in Murder of Local Gov’t Official

Police in Kireka have arrested a key suspect in connection with the murder of a local government official who was fatally stabbed last week.The incident occurred on March 26, 2026, at around 6:00am in Kamuli A Zone, Kira Municipality, Wakiso District. The victim, identified as 44-year-old

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Uganda’s impeding debt crisis

Uganda’s impeding debt crisis

In a recent podcast of Bad Natives, I argued that there is a real risk of Uganda defaulting on her domestic bonds in two to three years. It makes little sense to judge a country’s debt sustainability using the debt-to-GDP ratio. GDP is not a resource of government which it can use to pay credit

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Here’s why AI is Uganda’s fastest route to a $500 billion economy

Here’s why AI is Uganda’s fastest route to a $500 billion economy

It is a bold call to embrace the one laptop per child policy and digitize education to achieve Uganda’s $500 billion Gross Domestic Product (GDP) dream and accelerate East African economic integrationA HISTORIC MANDATE DEMANDS A HISTORIC RESPONSEPlease accept my warmest, most sinc

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Iran's largest steelmaker appeals to global industry bodies after strike kills workers

Iran's largest steelmaker appeals to global industry bodies after strike kills workers

Iran's largest steelmaker appeals to global industry bodies after strike kills workersintellinews.com3hIran's largest steelmaker appeals to global industry bodies after strike kills workersMobarakeh Steel Group, the largest steel producer in the Middle East and North A

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Henry Musasizi Commends Progress at Ntungamo Coffee Park

Henry Musasizi Commends Progress at Ntungamo Coffee Park

The Minister of State for Finance, Planning and Economic Development, Henry Musasizi, has appreciated the progress of the Inspire Africa Coffee Park in Ntungamo during a visit he made alongside Amos Kankunda, the Chairman of the Finance, Planning and Economic Development Committee of Parliament,

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Kampala Flood Victims Rush to Verify Names Ahead of Shs20bn Compensation

Kampala Flood Victims Rush to Verify Names Ahead of Shs20bn Compensation

Traders affected by the late 2025 floods in Kampala are scrambling to confirm their eligibility for compensation as verification begins, amid confusion over the status and release of government funds.Flood-affected traders in Kampala have flocked to FUTA offices to verify whether their nam

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Relief as Najjera–Kira road nears completion

Relief as Najjera–Kira road nears completion

Tarmacking of the section this week reached Najjera Police Station, about half a kilometre from Kiwatule where the works are expected to end Residents and motorists using the Kiwatule–Najjera–Kira road are finally seeing visible progress, bringing long-awaited relief after years of nav

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