By Gerald Businge on June 15, 2010
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The Network for African Parliamentarians is carrying out campaign to have all various Parliaments in Africa come up with committees on Millennium Development Goals (MDG’s) in their various Parliaments to ensure easy implementation. The MDG’s are access to universal primary education, eradication of extreme poverty and hunger, promoting gender equality and women empowerment, reducing child […]
By Gerald Businge on June 14, 2010
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The Forum for African Women Educationists has urged the government to ensure that there is improvement in the retention of girls in primary schools such that such girls can complete their primary education without dropping out of school. Though under the Universal primary Education programme enrollment figures of girls in primary school have risen in […]
By Gerald Businge on June 11, 2010
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The Northern Uganda Youth Member of Parliament, Dennis Obua has hailed the Uganda 2010/11 budget for allocating funds to fund school leavers saying it will help reduce the problem of unemployment. The Uganda Minister of Finance, Planning and Economic development, Hon. Syda Bumba while reading the Uganda 2010/11 Uganda budget at Kampala Serena Hotel indicated […]
By Gerald Businge on June 10, 2010
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The Uganda Minister of Finance, Planning and Economic development, Hon. Syda Bumba has indicated that government of Uganda has allocated funds to set up a fund for school leavers to help reduce the problem of unemployment in the country. According to a 2008 World Bank report, Uganda has the highest youth unemployment rate and the […]
By Gerald Businge on June 9, 2010
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Prison authorities have appealed to the government of Uganda to extend the Universal Primary Education program to the inmates. The Head Teacher of Luzira Prisons, Anatoli Biryomumisho says the primary section in Luzira which holds the largest number of inmates has limited facilities, calling for urgent government intervention. Biryomumisho says that the small number of […]
By Gerald Businge on June 7, 2010
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The Vice Chancellor of Makerere University, Prof. Venansius Baryamureba has said Makerere University is ready to partner with the National Science Foundation (NSF), an independent US Federal Agency to establish an Advanced Materials Research Institute which NSF wants in Africa. He was meeting a team from the NSF which visited Makerere University yesterday as part […]
By Gerald Businge on June 5, 2010
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The Acting Chairman of the Public Service Commission, Charles Ebong has urged graduates to promote social transformation in the communities and various institutions of government when they get employed after graduating. Ebong has told students Uganda Christian University in Mukono that today many institutions and communities in Uganda are breaking down and they need […]
By Gerald Businge on May 30, 2010
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The Minister of State for Higher Education, Mwesigwa Rukutana has revealed that the government of Uganda is set to start supporting skilled students who want to start income generating activities. He says the move is part of government efforts to review the education sector to produce more job creators and solve the country’s unemployment problem. […]
By Gerald Businge on May 25, 2010
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Is Uganda’s Late President Idi Amin Dada a Hero or a Villain? A lot has been said about Amin who ruled Uganda from 1971 when he overthrew the Milton Obote I government through a military coup, until 1979 when he was deposed by combined military forces of Ugandans with the help of the Tanzania government. […]
By Gerald Businge on May 24, 2010
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All Uganda roads in different parts of the country are busy today as hundreds of students and pupils report to their schools for the second term of academic year 2010. The police traffic officers have been deployed on all Uganda’s road highways to ensure that drivers taking children to schools follow traffic regulations. The education […]