Education

Local residents of Butenga town council in Bukomansimbi district want the government to consider establishing a secondary school in their area in a bid to promote girl child education. Residents are now willing to offer lands for the establishment of a secondary school. These remarks were made on July 30, 2024, in Meru ward during a village meeting where they revealed that their children face a lot of challenges during these long distances because they pass through bushy and swampy places,...

Col. Emmy Katabazi, the Deputy Director General of the Internal Security Organisation (ISO), has urged students nationwide to take an active role in supporting their families and communities in utilising the recently disbursed Parish Development Model (PDM) funds. While addressing the students at Muko High School in Rubanda District on July 29, 2024, Col. Katabazi, accompanied by former UNSA leaders, emphasised the importance of students becoming ambassadors of development within their homes. The accompanying visitors were Eng. Okuk Owera, the Director...

Police in Kanungu have arrested the Kanungu district Assistant Human Resource Officer for getting involved in receiving a bribe from one of the retired teachers so as to process his pension. The suspect has been identified as Jasper Tukamuhebwa, Assistant Human Resource Officer, who was caught red-handed in Bagira Restaurant in Kanungu Town Council soliciting a bribe of around Ugx 2 million from Levi Muteraba, a retired teacher, so as to easily access his gratuity and pension. Preliminary information indicates that...

Col Emmy Katabazi, the Deputy Director General of the Internal Security Organization (ISO), has tipped the Christians of St. James Muko Church of Uganda (C.O.U.) Parish (Archdeaconry) under the Diocese of Kigezi on embracing government programs like the Parish Development Model (PDM). Col Katabazi made the remarks during a church service as they celebrated St. Peter's Day on June 30, 2024. He highlighted that President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni introduced the PDM initiative and the four-acre model, among others with the aim...

The Ministry of Education, Science, Technology and Sports has ruled that it was illegal for Nakaseke District LCV Chairperson, Ignatius Koomu, to force teachers to undertake assessment tests as a means to ascertain their capability following poor performance in the 2023 PLE results. On Wednesday, June 5, 2024, Dr. Asuman Lukwago, the Secretary of the Education Service Commission, condemned Koomu’s actions, saying the rules of any exam require candidates to be alerted. Lukwago, who was appearing before Parliament’s Committee on Commissions,...