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The Ministry of Education and Sports (MoES) has today officially released the 2020 Primary Leaving Examination (PLE) results of 736,942 candidates who registered and sat for the examinations between March 30 and 31. Speaking at the ceremony held at the State House in Entebbe, the Executive Director of Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB), Dan N. […]
The Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) has registered a growth in revenue and tax to GDP ratio, the highest growth registered in the last four years according to the revenue performance report. In the FY 2020/21, URA collected net revenue of UGX 19,263.00 billion and posted growth in revenue of 14.99% in comparison to the FY […]
By Derrick Asaba The Uganda Police Force has announced the arrest of yet another shooter in the attempted murder of General Edward Katumba Wamala and his bodyguard, Sgt Khalid Kuboit on June 1. This was made known by the Deputy Inspector General of Police, Maj Gen Paul Lokech in a Press release dated July 13 […]
Covidex is a drug that was recently approved by the National Drug Authority (NDA) as a supporting remedy to the treatment of novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID19), the 20ml, white and green cap bottle drug is believed to have been invented by Prof. Patrick Ogwang a lecturer at Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST) […]
With outrage and condemnation of torturous acts by police against Katumba assassination suspects, the Uganda Law Society (ULS) has called for issuance of a court order for further treatment of these suspects. This follows the arraignment of Sserubula Hussein Ismail, Nyanzi Yusuf Siraji, Kagugube Muhammad, Walusimbi Kamada, Kisambira Siriman Ayuub, Abdulaziz Ramathan Dunku, Habib Ramathan […]
The Electricity Regulatory Authority (ERA) has approved new electricity End-User Tariffs to be charged by UMEME Limited for the supply of electrical energy in the billing period from July to September this year. This was made public by the Director, Corporate and Consumer Affairs at ERA, Julius Wandera in a press release dated July 9. […]
Renowned journalist and politician, Dennis Katongole popularly known as Katongole Omutongole has denied the claims circulating around that he was denied the National Unity Platform (NUP) ticket. Circulating information that has been a storm on internet has it that Katongole was denied the NUP party ticket to represent the party in the Kayunga district LCV […]
The prestigious Pearl of Africa (POA) Star Search continues to reveal more light that lives in most of the Ugandan talents. This campaign was designed to basically promote Uganda’s musical talent whereby the overall winner stands an opportunity to walk away with UGX 60M. This includes a cash prize, recording contract, music video production, professional […]
The National Planning Authority (NPA) has revealed that the model developed to make predictions of COVID-19 infection cases for every two weeks can be used by any African country. The model has been in use since 2020 and has proved to be 97% accurate leaving only a 3% degree of error. It was published on […]