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A total of 97,109 candidates have failed the 2022 Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE) and will either repeat or give up on formal education, results released by the Uganda National Examinations Board (Uneb) have indicated.
Assessment body Uganda National Examinations Board (Uneb) and officials from First Lady Janet Kataaha Kainembabazi Museveni’s Ministry of Education and Sports will release results from the 2022 Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE) this Friday, Dr Joyce Moriku Kaducu, the State Minister for Primary Education, has confirmed.
Pope Francis criticized laws that criminalize homosexuality as “unjust,” saying God loves all his children just as they are and called on Catholic bishops who support the laws to welcome LGBTQ people into the church.
Uganda’s Parliament has passed a motion of censure against Princess Persis Namuganza, the State Minister for Housing, and Bukono County MP. In a vote conducted Monday afternoon during a special sitting, specifically called for this purpose, 356 MPs voted in favour of the motion, while 5 MPs voted against as three abstained.
Uganda’s Presidency is mourning the death of yet another district commissioner. Joseph Sekasamba has been serving as the Deputy Resident District Commissioner (D – RDC) for Kitagwenda District.
Makerere University St Francis Anglican chaplain Rev Onesimus Asiimwe has been elected the sixth Bishop of the Church of Uganda (CoU) Diocese of North Kigezi. He will be consecrated on March 12, 2023 at the Emmanuel Cathedral Kinyansano in Rukungiri District.
Kawempe South MP Bashir Kazibwe Mbaziira has spoken out on a string of tweets in which he appeared to expose his National Unity Platform (NUP) president Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine. The tweets quickly made Kazibwe trend on micro-blogging site Twitter.
Simon Toolit Aketcha, a rival to Andrew Ojok Oulanyah and member of Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu aka Bobi Wine’s National Unity Platform (NUP), has died. Toolit Aketcha was a former MP. He contested in the Omoro byelection to replace former Speaker Jacob L’Okori Oulanyah but lost to Oulanyah Jr.
Ian, a son to Rwandan president Paul Kagame, has joined the Republican Guard, a unit whose role is guarding the head of state and members of the first family in the small East African country.