Parents and pupils from different schools across the country got stranded this morning as the teachers’ industrial action over unresolved salary issues kicked off. On Thursday, the teachers, under the Uganda National Teacher’s Union, resolved to put down their tools after government failed to meet a salary increment it had promised them. Some schools around […]

Dozens of parents of Jinja’s Main Street Primary School, stormed the Municipal council offices demanding answers about a planned giveaway of part of the school land. The angry parents marched to the offices upon learning of a council meeting that was discussing the sale of part of the school land to a private developer. 

A magistrate court in Kagadi, Kibale District has ordered five people to pay a fine of 400,000/= or face two years in jail for  settling and carrying out illegal activities in  Kagombe forest reserve in the area. Nine other suspects of the same case who denied the charges were remanded to Kagadi prison until the […]

President Yoweri Museveni says he will investigate the Police force for allegedly arresting people under the pretext of them being idle and disorderly. The President was responding to concerns raised by residents of Kasangati at Saaza grounds where he was addressed NRM supporters after he had visited the family of the late Sam Njuba in […]

Mary Nanfuka  Kisekka nga ono y’abadde Namwandu w’eyaliko omumyuka wa pulezidenti Dr. Samson Kisekka afudde mu kiro ekikeesezza olwa leero.  Mukyala Kisekka afiiridde mu ddwaliro e Nsambya ku myaka 92. Ono abadde aludde nga ameggana n’obulwadde bwa Sukaali era nga asuubirwa okuziikibwa ku lw’okusatu olujja mumakagaabwe e Temangalo.

CNOOC Uganda, an oil and gas company has today awarded 90 best performing Hoima district students. The “CNOOC Best Performer’s Award”  seeks to award the Best PLE, UCE and UACE level students under its Corporate Social Responsibility Program. Inaugurated in 2012, the awards are aimed at encouraging better performance to the students in Hoima District. […]

Workers representatives in parliament warn the new minister for finance, Matia Kasaija to abandon the plan to reduce the number of workers representatives on the NSSF board or else they will call the workers to take action. Addressing a press conference at parliament, mps Arinaitwe Rwakajara , Sam Lyomoki and Teopista Nabulya Sentongo said that […]

The government has directed schools to officially open on Monday and that all teachers and head teachers should report for duty. The directive comes a day after teachers under the Uganda National Teachers union declared industrial action as the new school term opens. The teachers are demanding their 10% salary increment as promised by the […]

The Uganda National Bureau of Statistics is set to conduct the 4th round of the National service delivery survey in all the 112 districts. The National service delivery survey is primarily intended to collect data on six key sectors of Health, Education, Agriculture, Works and Transport, Water and sanitation, Justice, law and order and governance. […]