Nairobi, Kenya | THE STAR KENYA | IEBC chairman Wafula Chebukati has for the first time spoken about the decision by the four IEBC commissioners to reject the presidential results. The four IEBC officers who rejected the results are Juliana Cherera, Francis Wanderi, Justus Nyang’aya and Irene Masit. In a statement, …
Read More »IEBC faces Monday deadline, Odinga holds lead
🔵 Kenya election RESULTS 2am ✳ Odinga – 50.01% ➡ 2,826,080 votes ✳ Ruto – 49.34% ➡ 2,787,871 ✳ Wajackoyah – 0.42% ➡ 23,758 ✳ Waihiga- 0.23% ➡ 12,938 * 113 constituencies out of 291 (38%) (CLICK TO GO TO LIVE RESULTS) Nairobi, Kenya | THE INDEPENDENT | Pressure is now piling …
Read More »Makerere University students demand release of ‘lost’ results
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Several Makerere University students have demanded the release of their results two years after they failed to access them. The students accuse the university administration of negligence and failing to respond to their plight. Mutesi Hadijja, a first-year student at the College of Humanities …
Read More »Janet Museveni to release UACE results today
✳ 98,392 Candidates registered, ✳ 97,490 Sat for their Exams ✳ 41,411 scored 3P ✳ 26,602 Got 2P ✳ 19,015 Scored 1P ✳ 9,616 got SP ✳ 796 Failed Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | First Lady and Minister of Education Janet Museveni will this afternoon release the Uganda Advanced …
Read More »Arua Hospital releasing corpses without COVID-19 Test results
Arua, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Leaders in Arua district have expressed concern over reports that the management of Arua Regional Referral hospital is handing over bodies of deceased persons to their relatives before carrying out tests to ascertain the cause of death. The leaders say handing over dead bodies …
Read More »UACE: UNEB withholds results of 120 candidates
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda National Examinations Board-UNEB has withheld Uganda Advanced Certificate of Examinations –UACE results of 120 candidates from 26 centers for alleged malpractice. The UNEB Executive Secretary, Dan Nokrach Odongo disclosed this while releasing the UACE results at the Office of the Prime Minister Thursday …
Read More »UCE SPECIAL: Summary of results, comparisons, top subjects
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The highs and lows of the 2019 Uganda Certificate of Examination results show that the number of registered candidates increased by 0.7%, performance was better than that of 2018, with 92.2% candidates passing compared to 87.2%, but nearly half of the students who sat failed physics and chemistry papers. …
Read More »Boris Johnson wins first round of UK leadership vote
London, United Kingdom | AFP | Boris Johnson overwhelmingly won the first round of voting Thursday in the race to replace outgoing British Prime Minister Theresa May, with the field of candidates narrowed to seven from 10. The Brexit-backing former foreign minister picked up 114 of the 313 votes cast …
Read More »MTN Nigeria listing set, MTN Uganda revenue up 8.9%
Johannesburg, South Africa | THE INDEPENDENT | MTN Group has confirmed that it expects to list its shares on the Nigerian Stock Exchange in the first half of 2019. In a statement as they released their 2018 Annual Results, MTN said the move that is still subject to regulatory approvals, will …
Read More »UCE results to be released this week
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda Certificate of Education-UCE examination results are scheduled to be released on Thursday this week. A statement from the Education and Sports Ministry indicates that the results will be released at the offices of Uganda Bureau of Statistics at 2:30 pm. Education and Sports …
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