Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Irish educationist Professor Emer Ring has advised the Ugandan Ministry of Education to rethink the current form of assessment and invest in teacher development in order to uplift the education standards in the country. Prof. Ring, the dean of Teacher Education at Mary Immaculate College, …
Read More »Nakaseke district stuck with 27 chronically ill teachers
Nakaseke, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Nakaseke District is stuck with 27 teachers who are incapable of teaching over suspected mental and other chronic illness. Some of them have been down with cancer, AIDS, mental illnesses and a combination of ailments that have made them unable to teach, according to a …
Read More »Jan Mangal Uganda ltd loses gold mining license in Karamoja
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Directorate of Geological Survey and Mines has cancelled the gold mining license for Jan Mangal Uganda Ltd, in Moroto district. This is the second mining lease to be cancelled in Moroto district in less than three years. Jan Mangal, a subsidiary of an Indian …
Read More »Njoroge best placed to end 11-year Kenyan jinx at Uganda Open
💠 Tee off 12.30pm ✳ S Njoroge 🇰🇪 213 ✳ S Njogu 🇰🇪 215 ✳ R Otile 🇺🇬 216 💠 Tee off 12.20pm ✳ D Nduva 🇰🇪 216 ✳ J Cwinyaai 🇺🇬 221 ✳ D Asaba 🇺🇬 223 💠Venue: Lake Victoria Serena 💠 LIVE: Results (click) Final day draw (bottom) Entebbe, …
Read More »30 students receive Chinese scholarships at Makerere university
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Chinese Ambassador to Uganda, H.E Zheng Zhuqiang has awarded tuition scholarships to 30 students at Makerere university for this academic year. Prof. Barnabas Nawangwe, the Makerere University Vice Chancellor on Thursday hailed the people of the Republic of China for their generosity towards Makerere …
Read More »Police arrest PC Davis Taremwa in Entebbe-Expressway murder case
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda Police have arrested PC Davis Taremwa as they step up investigations into the double murder that took place Thursday night on Entebbe Express-Way. FULL UGANDA POLICE STATEMENT The Directorate of Criminal Investigations is actively investigating a suspected car shooting which occurred on the …
Read More »A 66: Ronald Otile smashes Serena golf course record
▶ Otile DAY 3 #UGGolfOpen19 ⛳ ✳ 66 strokes from 18 holes >> – 6 under par ✳ 1 Eagle ✳ 6 birdies ✳ 9 Pars 💠 DAY 3 – LEADER-BOARD LIVE ✳ S Njoroge 🇰🇪 213 ✳ S Njogu 🇰🇪 215 ✳ R Otile 🇺🇬 216 ✳ D Nduva 🇰🇪 …
Read More »IAA: Service providers are the backbone of the health insurance industry
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | International Air Ambulance has today concluded a highly successful annual Health Service Providers (HSP) workshop, where strategies to strengthen their insurance practices in the next one year were laid out. Over 400 Health Service Providers (HSP) gathered at hotel Africana on Friday to discuss …
Read More »Gov’t struggling to implement President’s 12 security points
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Security agencies are still struggling to implement President Yoweri Museveni’s 12 security points, one year later. In his statement to Parliament on the new wave of kidnaps and murders in the country on Thursday, Internal Affairs Minister Gen. Jeje Odongo said that in order …
Read More »Online bullying on the rise among teens- UNICEF
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A new report by the UN Agency for children, UNICEF has shown that one in three young people in 30 countries have been a victim of online bullying, with one in five reporting having skipped school due to cyber bullying and violence. The findings …
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