A bomb blast in a church in Eastern DR Congo has killed at least 10 people and injured 39 others. The attack blamed on suspected Islamists happened yesterday. The specifics on the attack are a little hazy but reports say the attack happened in a Pentecostal church in North Kivu province. After the bomb blast, authorities arrested a Kenyan at ...
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Activist Calls For Compensation Policy For Road Accident Victims
Sam Bambanza, an activist and executive director of Hopeful Victims of Road Accidents, is calling for a compensation policy for accident victims. This call comes at a time when the country is experiencing a steep rise in road accidents. The latest police report has showed that 79 people were killed in the first week of January 2023 and hundreds were ...
Read More »Bishop Dan Zoreka Charges Youths With Living Purposeful Lives
Rev Dan Zoreka, the Bishop of the Diocese of Kinkizi, has tasked youths to live with purpose so as to have a meaningful life. He made these remarks yesterday while presiding over the opening of the Annual Diocese of Kinkizi Youth and Students Convention. The convention is taking place at Kinkizi High School in Kanungu Town Council. It is under ...
Read More »UNEB Seeking To Spike Candidate Fees
UNEB Executive Director, Mr. Daniel Odongo, says the examination body needs to raise revenue. Apparently he said this is necessary if it is to render quality services to the people that it serves. Therefore, one of the many ways the body hopes to raise revenue will be raising candidate fees. Parents with children in candidate classes hoping to write their ...
Read More »Headteachers Asked To Stop Charging Fees As UPE Completion Rate Falls To 34%
President Museveni recently asked Universal Primary and Secondary Education schools headteachers to stop asking for fees from learners. He said this act distorts government’s plan of promoting human resource development. This plan is apparently needed for implementing the social-economic transformation agenda in the country. “Let’s agree on the strategy that the route to socio-economic transformation is to remove obstacles that ...
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