The Chairperson of the Education Committee, Connie Galiwango, has advised parents to speak to teachers if they have mishandled their children instead of resorting to beating them. This comes after reports that the administration of Bilal Islamic school stopped Sheikh Noor Muzaata from teaching at the school after he beat up a teacher who had […]
The administration of Bilali Islamic Schools has dismissed Sheikh Noah Muzaata Batte who has been a teacher at the Bwaise based school for insulting and beating up a fellow teacher known as Ramathan Ssebalamu who thumped his child. According to Ramathan Ssebalamu, Muzaata found him in the school staff room and started boxing him accusing […]
The Parliamentary committee on Presidential Affairs committee has quizzed the officials from the Kampala Capital City Authority to explain under what circumstance the KCCA veterinary officers do not regularly inspect butchers where formalin was used on meat. MPs sitting on this committee chaired by Adjumani District Woman MP, Jesca Ababiku, say it’s very a shaming […]
Teenage pregnancy has hit hard kamuli district among the districts in Busoga sub region. Reports available at kamuli general hospital indicate that the teenage pregnancy has moved from 24% to 25% among the adolescent girls in this district. The Project officer of the Forum for African Women Educationalists – Uganda Chapter in kamuli district, Ms. Jackline Nafuna […]
A new law is in offing to charge women with rape against men. The parliamentary legislative council is expected to propose a new section to the parliamentary legal committee to be inserted in the sexual offences bill 2015 to charge women with rape. Currently it is only men who have been facing rape charges against […]
Marijuana users are more likely to have creative personality traits, a new study suggests. However, this does not necessarily mean that marijuana makes people more creative. Researchers from Washington State University conducted a study on 412 cannabis users and 309 non-users. ALSO READ: Scientists who invented virginal ring now seeing results Only sober users were assessed, rather than […]
Renowned journalist and political commentator, Andrew Mwenda, has come out to bash Ugandans, who think the army in Uganda can do something similar to what is happening in Zimbabwe. RELATED: Mugabe held at his home, says South African president The army has this week, in what appears a s a coup, detained President Robert Mugabe at […]
There is a heavy presence of military and no sign of police on roads leading to the central business district of Harare on Wednesday‚ after the Zimbabwe National Army announced taking over the country just after midnight. Students writing exams at the University of Zimbabwe were turned away and the campus cleared. “We were meant […]
The Inspector General of Police, Kale Kayihura, yesterday appointed Emilian Kayima new Police Spokesperson. Kayima replaces Assistant Inspector General of Police, Asan Kasingye, who had been appointed police spokesperson in March this year after the gunning down of then police spokesperson Andrew Felix Kaweesi. Kaweesi was gunned down near his home in Kulambiro. In a […]
Medical interns in the country serving public health facilities have today declared a start to their strike following the dangerous conditions they are working in as they battle to save lives. In a meeting held today at Mulago, the interns led by their president, Robert Lubega, state that they are paid less, over worked, have […]