Former Vice President Edward Kiwanuka Ssekandi has donated television sets, decoders, and a public address system to St. Mugagga Vocational Secondary School in Masaka, improving communication, learning, and access to educational content for over 1,000 students.Students at St. Mugagga Vocat
The opposition National Unity Platform (NUP) offices in Kabale District are under lock and key. Officially opened by NUP presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, also known as Bobi Wine, in August 2023, the offices are located along Rugabo Road, opposite Kabale Secondary School in Centr
Busitema University has been quietly expanding its reach across eastern Uganda, establishing campuses in Namasagali, Pallisa, Mbale, and Arapai, and steadily increasing student enrolment year after year. On paper, the growth story looks impressive.But behind the numbers, a more uncomfortab
A dark cloud has settled over the Ugandan sports community following a horrific road accident on Tuesday that claimed the lives of five students from Iki-Iki Senior Secondary School.The tragedy occurred along the Mbale–Tirinya Highway at Jami, located within the Kamonkoli Town Council, a
For years, Uganda’s brightest university students have steered away from education degrees, gravitating instead toward medicine, law, and engineering — courses perceived to offer better financial returns. The government is now moving decisively to change that calculation.In a landmark
The Inspectorate of Government has released a full list of 202 civil servants who are yet to refund over Shs2Billion they misappropriated.The IGG warns in the list last updated today, Monday, March 16, 2026 that the affected civil servants risk prosecution for Abuse of Office and disobedie
A Real Bus company vehicle lost control and rammed into the rear of an Isuzu Hino truck on Sunday morning at around 4:00am in Kiwumpa village, Luwero town, along the Kampala–Gulu highway, killing the bus driver and conductor.A Real Bus company vehicle lost control and rammed into the rea
In a powerful and emotional display of desperation, mothers in some of Johannesburg's most crime-ridden suburbs have issued a heart-wrenching plea to the South African government: "Don't take the soldiers away." As the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) launched a massive, high-impact o
Mukono – The High Court has consolidated several land cases filed by the Kabaka of Buganda against 12 district local governments and the Attorney General into one major suit to be heard in Mukono.In a ruling delivered recently, Justice Stephen Mubiru ordered that seven civil suits filed
Bushenyi, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police in Bushenyi are holding two suspects in connection with alleged human trafficking.Apollo Tayebwa, the Greater Bushenyi Police spokesperson, said ten girls aged between 18 and 22 — most of them Senior Four leavers — were rescued on Friday nigh
