Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | State Minister for Higher Education John Chrysostom Muyingo has said that the government will soon investigate the reasons driving the mass retirement of Ugandan football stars from the National Team. Three senior players including Goalkeeper and skipper Denis Masinde Onyango, midfielders Michael Azira and Hassan …
Read More »Bamunanika county MP elect’s victory challenged
Luweero, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A voter in Luwero district has petitioned the High Court in Kampala demanding for nullification of the election of Robert Ssekitoleko, the Bamunanika County MP Elect. The incumbent MP and State Minister for Higher Education John Chrysostom Muyingo lost his re-election bid to Ssekitoleko of …
Read More »Muyingo voted out for being silent on issues affecting electorate – Leaders
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Local leaders and residents of Bamunanika county in Luweero district have attributed the loss of the incumbent Member of Parliament and State Minister in Charge of Higher Education, John Chrysostom Muyingo on his silence on key issues affecting the constituency. Muyingo lost in the just …
Read More »Covid19: Ministry weighs options of achieving learning outcomes, promotion
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Education and Sports Ministry is discussing possible alternatives of ensuring that learners achieve the desired learning outcomes pending the government’s decision in January next year on whether or not to reopen studies for non-candidate classes. The learners were in the middle of the first …
Read More »Gov’t advised to scale up reopening of schools
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The government has been advised to work towards ensuring the full-scale reopening of all educational institutions. In October schools reopened, but only for candidate classes, after more than six months of inactivity following the outbreak of the covid-19 pandemic. Speaking at the Ministry of …
Read More »Education ministry fails to convince MPs on radio procurement
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Officials from the Ministry of Education and Sports have today failed to persuade legislators sitting on Parliament’s Budget Committee on the proposed expenditure of Shillings 336.8 billion to purchase radio sets for all homesteads in the country. Led by the Minister of State for Planning …
Read More »Parliament demands audit into fire that razed Makerere’s Ivory Tower
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Members of Parliament on Wednesday tasked the Minister of State for Higher Education John Chrysostom Muyingo to ensure that a clear audit is carried out in the fire which gutted Makerere University main administration building the Ivory Tower over the weekend. This was during …
Read More »Parliament queries planned reopening of schools
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga has directed the Minister of Education and Sports to immediately provide a clear plan of re-opening schools amid the Covid-19 pandemic. The directive followed a statement by the Minister of State for Higher Education John Chrysostom Muyingo about …
Read More »MPs advise Education Ministry to cancel academic year
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Members of the National Economy committee of Parliament have called for the cancellation of the 2020 academic year. The call comes close to four months after the closure of schools and other educational institutions as one of the measures to control the spread of …
Read More »Ministry of Education suspends LDC’s online classes
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Education and Sports has temporarily halted the Law Development Centre‘s bar online classes after receiving several complaints from students. The Law Development Centre-LDC had opened up an online portal two weeks ago to ensure continuity of learning during the lockdown. But …
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