Janet Museveni

President Museveni offers 200M and chartered plane to Cranes

President Museveni offers 200M and chartered plane to Cranes

Uganda Cranes and FUFA top officials were hosted by President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni at State House Entebbe at a function he organized to celebrate the 56th Independence Day with the team and football fraternity ahead of Saturday’s AFCON Qualifier with Lesotho at Namboole stadium. In a jolly mood, the President discussed football matters with the contingent […]

Private health training institutions given six months to improve standards- Mrs Museveni

Private health training institutions given six months to improve standards- Mrs Museveni

Government has given a period of six months to private health training institutions to comply with the set minimum entry requirements for training health students. This was revealed by the Minister for Education and Sports, Janet Museveni, while responding to MP’s concerns on the floor of parliament over claims that nurses were denied professional entry […]

Old Kampala SS closed over student strike

Old Kampala SS closed over student strike

Old Kampala Senior Secondary School has been closed by Police over a student’s strike that turned violent. Students are protesting against the transfer of their headmistress, Ms Aziida Nsubuga Ntegane, by the Ministry of Education and Sports. Reports indicated that some students were injured in the process when police fired in the air to disperse […]

Janet Museveni to monitor performance of primary teacher’scolleges

Janet Museveni to monitor performance of primary teacher’scolleges

The Minister for Education, Janet Museveni, has pledged to strengthen monitoring in Primary Teachers’ Colleges so that they can meet the required standards. She made the remarks on Monday at the release of the 2016 grade III certificate exam results where 10,131 out of 16,273 candidates who registered passed the Grade III exams. The performance […]

Janet Museveni blames low quality education on budget cuts

Janet Museveni blames low quality education on budget cuts

The minister for education and sports, Janet Museveni, also the First Lady has blamed budget cuts to the ministry for the continued low delivery of quality education in the country. She indicated that in last four financial years her ministry has suffered budget cuts from 15% to 11%. The First Lady disclosed this last week […]

Non-teaching staff of Public Universities finally agree to return to work

Non-teaching staff of Public Universities finally agree to return to work

The non-teaching staff at Makerere University and other Public Universities have finally agreed to end their week-long strike for the next three month as they await President Museveni’s pledge that he made with them yesterday (Tuesday August 16) in a meeting at state house Entebbe. The non-teaching staff at all Public Universities who have been […]

Government closes 62 international schools over operating illegally

Government closes 62 international schools over operating illegally

Government has so far closed a total of 62 international schools countrywide that it says have illegally been operating in Uganda with no license, no proper structures or a teaching curriculum approved by the Ministry of Education and Sports (MoES) Among the schools are some that were operating under Bridge International Academy in Uganda from […]

President Museveni on four day official visit to Japan

President Museveni on four day official visit to Japan

President Yoweri Museveni and the First Lady who is also Minister for Karamoja Affairs Janet Museveni have today left for the Japanese Capital Tokyo, on a four day official visit were they will be hosted by the Emperor, Empress. They were seen off at Entebbe International Airport by the Head of Public Service, John Mitala; Chief of […]

Mbabazi, Janet Museveni reschedule meeting MPs over OPM scandal

Uganda’s first lady, Janet Museveni also minister for Karamoja Affairs says she is ready to appear before the public accounts committee of parliament. The committee is currently investigating the mismanagement of the PRDP funds in the office of the prime minister. This comes after members of this committee disagreed on whether or not she should […]

Students warned from indulging themselves in risky sexual activities

The Minister for Karamoja affairs has advised the youth to guard their lives from HIV/AIDS by remaining faithful to their partners. The Minister and the wife to the president of Rwanda Mrs. Jeanette Kagame where addressing the students of St. Mary’s Namagunga girls school in Mukono district. Mrs. Museveni said that the current HIV/AIDS infection […]