By Ronald Musoke Reality check for government’s quest for sciences As the Uganda National Examinations Board released the 2013 A-level results on March 27, the first insight into whether the government’s recent policy to force students pursue Science subjects was a wise move came to the fore. A total of …
Read More »Second phase of O-Level Curriculum reforms begin
By Ronald Musoke The National Curriculum Development Centre (NCDC) will, beginning this month (April), embark on the second phase of reforming Uganda’s lower-secondary school curriculum. The project which has been running since Nov. 2011 will see S1-S4 students shift from the current system where a student learns over 14 subjects …
Read More »Policymakers in Kigali to discuss how to get nutritious foods to People
By Ronald Musoke More than 275 high-level stakeholders from government, business and civil society have converged in Kigali today [March 31] for a three-day consultation to intensify efforts to get nutritious foods to people. The conference is being hosted by Rwanda where more than 500,000 Rwandan farmers have already planted …
Read More »UNEB releases A-level results
By Ronald Musoke The Uganda National Examinations Board has finally released the 2013 A-level results today, March 27, with female candidates beating their male counterparts in the humanities. A total of 116,190 candidates registered for the 2013 examination from 1,710 centres compared to 111,456 candidates from 1334 centres in 2012. …
Read More »NEMA’s latest mess
By Ronald Musoke Should we let this man destroy the Kinawataka wetland? Something dangerous is happening in the Kinawataka Swamp in the Banda area; a low-lying suburb about 10kms from Kampala city’s Central Business District along the eastern route. Since the beginning of this year, a mysterious encroacher has been …
Read More »Looking at 2016 is focusing on the wrong issue – Kamya
By Ronald Musoke Beti Olive Kamya, the leader of the Uganda Federal Alliance spoke to The Independent’s Ronald Musoke. Are you also in the camp that believes the opposition should shun the 2016 general elections because the polls have already been rigged in favour of the ruling NRM party? What …
Read More »Museveni hits back at Obama on Anti-Homosexuality Bill
By Ronald Musoke President Yoweri Museveni has responded to criticism from the US president, Barack Obama who early this week said Uganda’s enacting of the Anti-Homosexuality Bill would complicate relations between the two countries. On Feb. 16, Obama warned Uganda over its plans to criminalize homosexuality, saying the move was …
Read More »Grabbing Karamoja’s gold
By Ronald Musoke American, Indian, Arab companies invade mineral-rich region Acerer village in Nakapiripirit District shows how mineral-rich this north eastern region of Uganda is. It is your classic Karamoja hamlet with traditional manyatta thorn-stick and mud settlements in lush green acacia thickets located just half a kilometer from the …
Read More »Karamoja remains most vulnerable to human rights abuse in Uganda—report
By Ronald Musoke Karamoja remains Uganda’s most vulnerable sub-region when it comes to human rights abuses by government agencies, a new report by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Uganda says. The report released on Feb. 20 in Kampala says although there has …
Read More »‘Ugandan women needlessly dying from unsafe abortion’
By Ronald Musoke The rate at which Ugandan women are dying from unsafe abortion is alarming, Dr. Charles Kiggundu, one of Uganda’s leading Gnaecologists and Obstetricians has said. Kiggundu, a consultant at Mulago Hospital made the revelation at a meeting called by the Ministry of Health to update Ugandans on …
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