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The government has been approached by the Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) to appeal the school fees increment. The commission hopes to avoid exploitation of parents by schools that hiked their school fees in this current economic crisis. A board member of the EOC, Mr Habibu Sseruwagi yesterday addressed journalists in Kampala. He said the commission finds that 35% of parents ...

Many prominent journalists covering Twitter owner, Elon Musk, have had their accounts suspended out of the blue. Some of these include reporters for the New York Times, CNN and Washington Post. This happened a few hours ago. One spokeswoman for twitter told reporters that the main reason for the ban is related to live sharing of location data. This ban ...

Lira City police has put in custody a police driver whom they arrested for knocking dead a traffic officer on duty. The accident occurred at Adwila along Lira-Soroti road on Thursday, December 15. Two automobiles, a motorcycle number UEU 841C and a motor vehicle registration number UG 0337G were involved in the accident. The regional police revealed that a one ...

Ugandans are a people with a deep passion for sport. And of all the sports played and watched in the country, not one comes close to the level of popularity that football enjoys. In fact, football is Uganda’s national sport. Ugandan children start playing and watching the game from a very young age, and continue to enjoy it well into ...

The ruling party, the NRM, is without a doubt undergoing a power struggle between the old guard and the young guard. This has mainly centered around the presidential candidacy of President Museveni and his son, Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba. Sympathizers of Muhoozi have vehemently reiterated that it will be him on the ballot come 2026. They say that the old guard ...