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Education Ministry Confirms New School Calendar For 2023: See Reporting Dates For All Education Levels
Ministry of Education and Sports has released the 2023 School Year Calendar for Basic & Secondary schools, TVET & Health training Institutions at a Press Briefing held on Wednesday Afternoon by the Minister of Education Janet Museveni. According to Ministry of Education, the 2023 academic calendar for Pre-Primary, Primary, Secondary, Technical/Farm Schools, and Community Polytechnics,…
NDA, Tooro Kingdom Join Hands To Curb Drug Misuse
Fort-Portal: The National Drug Authority (NDA) and Tooro Kingdom have joined hands to clamp down on illegal traders of medicines in the Rwenzori region. Dr. Merdard Bitekyerezo, the chairperson of NDA says while the authority has previously been using surveillance, arrests, and raids on pharmacies and drug shops to curb illegal drug use, they have…
OP-ED: Isn’t It Cheaper To Rent Than Live In Your Own House?
By Denis Jjuuko There are many African proverbs about a man owning a house. And indeed in some African traditions, one to become a man had to leave their father’s home and build himself one. It was a taboo in some cultures for a man to still live in his parents’ house after the age…
In Hot Soup! BLB Surveyor Juma Kizito To Face Criminal Prosecution Over Conflict Of Interest In Ham Sports Centre Kigo Land
Buganda Land Board Surveyor Bashir Juma Kizito is set to Face Criminal Prosecution over conflict of interest in his duties where he Doubles as a Public/Civil Servant acting as the Wakiso District Staff Surveyor, Nakaseke District Staff Surveyor and a Private officer at Buganda Land Board serving as the head of Mapping and Survey contrary…
Good Gesture! Min. Janet Museveni Orders UNEB To Set Special Paper For ’23 PLE Candidates’ Who Missed Paper
First Lady and Education Minister Janet Kataaha Kainembabazi Museveni has directed the Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) to set a special Mathematics Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE) paper for the 23 P7 candidates of St. Christine Primary School who missed the exam over transport challenges. The PLE set of national exams, comprising four examination papers, was…
MPs Want Presidential, Parliamentary Polls Conducted Last
Parliament has adopted a recommendation from its Committee on Human Rights that tasked the Electoral Commission to conduct presidential and parliamentary elections last in the cycle. Committee Chairperson, Fox Odoi Oywelowo said the changes will guarantee interest in the local government elections which have historically suffered notoriously low turnout. “The Electoral Commission should organize general…
Sad News! Former DP President Dr. Paul Kawanga Ssemwogerere Is Dead
The former Democratic Party President Dr Paul Kawanga Ssemogerere is dead. The 90+ year old man breathed his last at his home. According to Wakiso District Chairman Mr Bwanika, Ssemogerere died in the wee hours of November 18, 2022. “Dr. Paul Kawanga Ssemogerere : (11 February 1932- November 18, 2022). KITALO NNYO,” reads a message…
Police Fires Teargas At NUP Supporters As They Remember November 2020 Victims
The Police on Friday fired teargas to disperse supporters of the National Unity Platform-NUP political party who had gathered at their party headquarters to remember those killed during the November 2020 riots. Today marks two years since at least 54 people were killed as police and the army tried to quell protests in Kampala and…
OP-ED: I Urgently Need To Inherit Dr Paul Kawanga Ssemogerere’s Big, Black Book
OBITUARY | Alfred Geresom Musamali | Now that former Democratic Party (DP) President-General Dr Paul Kawanga Ssemogere is dead, I urgently need to inherit one of his intellectual property items – to wit, the Big, Black Book in which during the 1980s he conceptualised recording the names of all the perpetrators of human rights abuses in…
Big Story: Serena Kigo In Hot Soup! Risks Losing It’s Land Title Over Illegal Trespass
Businessman Hamis Kiggundu alias Ham through Kiham Enterprises, has run to court seeking for the cancellation of a land title created on the contested Kigo land by Buganda Kingdom in favor of Pearl Development Group. The petition addressed to the commissioner land registration looks forward to seeing the contested land titles cancelled claiming that they’re…