VIDEO: Parents shouldn’t pressure children on exams Kampala, Uganda | NTV UGANDA | The First lady and Minister of Education and Sports Janet Museveni has berated teachers and parents for exerting unnecessary pressure on their children to pass examinations. She made the remarks while launching the 35th Association for Educational Assessment …
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War of words between government and American ambassador on Nyanzi case Makerere University Researcher and social activist Dr. Stella Nyanzi is expected at Buganda Road Court today May 10 for a hearing in which her lawyers will respond to the state’s application to inquire into her mental status. Dr Nyanzi is expected to appear …
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Museveni runs to defend wife in pile of blunders President Yoweri Museveni has throughout his 31 year reign over Uganda boasted about how he is “a fighter” who has defeated many opponents. But his latest foe is proving tougher, even insiders admit. In the past, Museveni’s major opponents have either …
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Book review: Title: In Praise of Profanity, pp270 Author: Michael Adams Publisher: Oxford University Press The recent haranguing of the First Lady Janet Museveni by the profanity prone professor Stella Nyanzi of Makerere University (formerly?) raises the question of why some people opt for obscenity in expression. It also raise …
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Outspoken feminist, academic and Uganda government critic Dr Stella Nyanzi is expected to be brought before court today to face various charges. Police spokesman Emilian Kayima confirmed Nyanzi was taken into custody by them on Friday and would appear in court Monday in Kampala on charges of cyber harassment and …
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President Museveni faces family pressure to quit For the 31-years they have been in power, President Yoweri Museveni’s family has learnt one lesson; to survive, they must think ahead. So it is not surprising that although Museveni has spent barely a year since he was sworn-in in February last year, …
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Police officers suspects, main investigator was sidelined by Kayihura Grace Akullo, the Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIGP) faces the toughest assignment of her career; finding the masterminds of the worst murder to rock Uganda Police. As head of the Criminal Intelligence and Investigations Directorate (CIID), Akullo has been charged …
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The First Lady and Minister of Education and Sports Janet Museveni has posted on facebook an interview she had with NTV, in which she reacts to recent criticism by fiery Makerere University researcher Dr Stella Nyanzi. Dr Nyanzi has criticized the First Lady, for what she claims, is her failure …
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THE LAST WORD: By Andrew M. Mwenda How our overblown expectations of what oil is going to do for our country are likely to cause trouble I had always thought about the “oil curse” in terms of the “Dutch Disease” and the adverse incentives it creates that foster corruption …
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Responding to complaints by parents over exorbitant school charges, Minister of Education Janet Museveni has said that her Ministry is set to appoint an independent committee to critically analyze what schools are currently charging, a thing that will give them direction on an appropriate action to be taken. “As the …
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