Ministry of Education tells semi-candidates that ‘you are not yet candidates’ 📌 UGANDA 🇺🇬 NEW BACK TO SCHOOL SCHEDULE ▶ P1, P2 & P3 – June 7 ▶ P6, S3 & S5 – June 7 📌 3-year plan to harmonize school calendar ✳ Terms 12 weeks ✳ Holidays 15-17 days ✳ No exams …
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How Speakership race tested NRM and exposed the President COVER STORY | Ian Katusiime | When Rebecca Kadaga, while battling to retain her position as Speaker of Parliament, picked expression of interest in the job forms at the NRM headquarters on Kyadondo Road in Kampala on May 19, she had a …
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✅ CEC meeting 11am TODAY ✅ NRM caucus elections 8.am TOMORROW Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT & URN | Hours before the Central Executive Committee (CEC) meets and an NRM Parliamentary caucus election is held to determine the party’s candidate for Speaker and Deputy, Government Chief Whip Ruth Nankabirwa has said MPS …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | These are the top stories in this week’s THE INDEPENDENT. COVER STORY Museveni succession plot in Oulanyah – Kadaga battle: How Speakership race tested NRM and exposed the President THE LAST WORD A dangerous new world: How social media promotes radical extremism with a high …
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Tokyo 2020 enters operational delivery mode ➡ 75% of Village residents secured vaccination ➡ Limitation on participants entering Japan ➡ Games-time medical system review ➡ Medical personnel from abroad ➡ 54k+ athletes in 430+ safe major events since 9/2020 Tokyo, Japan | THE INDEPENDENT | With up to 75 per cent …
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Nairobi, Kenya | THE INDEPENDENT | Justice Martha Karambu Koome was today sworn in as the country’s 15th Chief Justice and the first female to ascend to the highest judicial office in Kenya’s history. The new Chief Justice and President of the Supreme Court of Kenya was today sworn in at …
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Hoima, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | As the long-awaited Host Government Agreement (HGA) was being signed between Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni, Tanzania’s Samia Suluhu and TOTAL in Dar es Salaam today, the French oil company commenced work on its Tilenga Industrial Area in Kasenyi, Buliisa District. It is here that TOTAL will build its …
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Cheptegei says he ‘has a golden dream’ 📌 TODAY 🇺🇬 ➡ 10,000m – 5.10pm Jacob Kiplimo & Mande Kibet ➡ 1,500m – 7.22pm Winnie Nanyondo ➡ 1,500m – 7.32pm Ronald Musagala ➡ 3,000m SC – 8.00pm Boniface Sikowo & Albert Chemutai ➡ 3,000m – 8.45pm Joshua Cheptegei & Oscar Chelimo Ostrava, …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Parliament has administered oaths to 131 members-elect of the eleventh parliament on the first day of the four-day-long ceremonies. Although the house had planned to administer oaths for 132 legislator’s on the first day of the exercise, two of the elected members did not turn …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Members of Uganda’s 11th Parliament will be sworn in today, in ceremonies that will last four days. The House has 527 Members of Parliament (MPs) – that is roughly 100 more MPs than what the 10th Parliament had. The swearing in will be followed …
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