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Assessment body Uganda National Examinations Board (Uneb) has released guidelines for this year’s end of primary level examinations or the Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE). Uneb Executive Secretary and Executive Director Dan Odongo has emphasized that 2022 PLE examinations will begin on Monday, November 07, 2022, with the briefing of candidates countrywide at the various examination centres. Odongo added that “the actual writing of the papers” will take place on Tuesday November 08, 2022, and Wednesday November 09, 2022.
A former minister in President Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni’s government has been admitted at the Mulago National Referral Hospital in the Ugandan capital Kampala. Prof Edward Rugumayo Bitanywaine was a minister of internal affairs in the Museveni government and had also served as minister of Education in Idi Amin Dada.
Retired Lieutenant Colonel (Rtd Lt Col) Ahamad Kashilling, a former commander in Gen Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni’s National Resistance Army (NRA) bush war that raged on from 1981 through 1986, has passed on.
Dickson Wasajja, a devoted supporter of opposition leader Dr Kizza Besigye, and a former leader of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) UK Chapter, has died, a top official of the Najjanankumbi-based political party has confirmed.
Former Ugandan Vice President Edward Kiwanuka Ssekandi has reportedly been rushed to a hospital in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), in critical condition. It is said that ex-VP Ssekandi’s health condition became a matter of concern as the elderly politician who served as the country’s number two for a decade was on a flight.
One week before hundreds of thousands are expected to sit their final Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE) papers, reports are emerging to the effect that some of the papers have already leaked and that they are being shared with some school heads as a way of giving their candidates an edge over other education institutions.
Speaker of Uganda’s Parliament and Bukedea District Woman MP Anita Annet Among has spoken out on reports that MPs have hatched a move to increase their salaries amidst hard economic times.
Ugandan first son Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba has made a major declaration on running for presidency, the country’s highest office, in the 2026 presidential election, setting the pace for the 2026 presidential contest that could see his father Gen Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni retire after about four decades at the helm of the impoverished East African nation.
Individual mourners involved in the chaotic scenes that played out during the burial on Monday of Jakana Sulayiman Nadduli might sooner fall in trouble with the Ugandan state security agencies after the Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC) recommended that a probe into the mayhem as well as the arrest of those involved.