A select committee investigating the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) saga is set to start work this morning. The committee will start with an interactive meeting with a whistleblower and two workers’ unions. Whistleblowers are individuals who usually expose harsh information on a personal organization’s wrongdoings. The two workers’ unions the committee will target its questions to are the Central ...

Experts have warned that private schools will find it quite difficult to abide by government directives concerning school fees. Apparently, the directive barring them from hiking fees won’t be followed if the statutory instrument is not in place. A lawyer, Michael Aboneka recently said that circulars and warnings will simply not cut it since they are not a law. Aboneka ...

Private schools performed better in the Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE) compared to the government institutions. This has been seen in the statistics released by theUganda National Examinations Board (UNEB).The private schools attributed their better performance to the relationship and verbal performance contract signed with parents.A colossal number of students from private schools beat their counterparts in government aided schools in ...

Pope Francis is set to begin his tour of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and South Sudan tomorrow. This is one of his religious activities he has been doing since he took over. He will visit the nations with a message of peace and reconciliation, which many hope will bring a much-needed stop to the conflicts in the nation.The ...

Gunmen opened fire on a group of people who appeared to be celebrating a birthday party in South Africa earlier on today. The police said that 8 people instantly died while three others were left wounded.The birthday celebrant is one of the 8 who died instantly in the mass shooting in Gqeberha, the former Port Elizabeth.“The owner of the house ...