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In the case of 27 P.7 candidates who missed their PLE, the Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) will apparently intervene. The students couldn’t make it to school. This is after the school director charged with taking them to the school vanished without a trace. On Tuesday, the 27 candidates from St. Christine Primary School in Kakumiro District got stranded and ...

Activist, Sheila Kawamara, has said she is so against being regulated as an adult. She said this regarding the new Alcohol Control bill introduced in Parliament by Sarah Opendi. This bill is apparently to put the consumption of alcohol in the control. “I am really against being regulated as an adult in terms of my behaviour. If my parents didn’t ...

The government recently proposed an increment of the fees for renewal and application of national IDs. It said that the fee would be increased from the normal shs 50,000 to shs 200,000. However, the Parliamentary Committee on Defense and internal affairs has questioned this proposal. The committee chairperson Rosemary Nyakikongoro revealed this addressing the parliament. The Kabale Municipality MP Nicholas ...

Anita Among, the speaker of Parliament has tasked the finance ministry to table a national budget framework paper before the parliament. She said this should be done by 15th December before MPs break off for their Christmas holidays. According to Among, this will enable the MPs to study the budget in time. It will also allow the shadow minister for ...

There was utter shock yesterday as 5 women stormed a session of the UN Committee on torture in Geneva, Switzerland. Appearing before the UN Committee against torture in Geneva, the Attorney General, Kiryowa Kiwanuka, defended the government of Uganda on torture. He said that the commitment to protect people against this has remained “resolute”. Further, he also denied the existence ...