Taliban rulers ban university education for Afghan women
Afghanistan's Taliban rulers have banned university education for women nationwide, provoking condemnation from the United States and the United Nations over another assault on human rights.
How teachers’ misery hurt children’s learning
A parent escorts children to school While there have been concerns about high school dropouts due to the Covid-19 pandemic, a report by researchers has shown that even those enrolled in schools are not adequately learning. The Research on Improving Systems of Education (RISE) Diagnostic...
Peter Drury: a one-time goalie now commentating maestro
The author with Peter Drury PETER DRURY is the most celebrated name in football commentary. Behind the microphone, the 55-year-old is a commentating poet whose rich vocabulary and endearing broadcasting style has earned him millions of adoring fans globally. But the Kent-born journalist is private...
Withdrawing the Basajjabalaba case a cure worse than disease
DPP Jane Frances Abodo The Basajjabalaba brothers, Hassan and Muzamiru, are the quintessential merchants of corruption in Uganda. On October 6, 2011, President Museveni decried their unmitigated infiltration of government and directed attorney general Peter Nyombi (RIP) to move against these “thieves” and their accomplices...
Namuganza spills more MPs’ secrets
Minister Persis Namuganza Berated by some MPs in the media and assailed on the floor of parliament by others, the under-fire Minister of State for Housing, PERSIS NAMUGANZA looked like the loneliest politician for the best part of last week, but she’s fighting back. Her...
Personal data ‘collateralization’ paraded to close financial exclusion gap
Africa’s financial exclusion/divide remains wide. Two thirds of adults in sub-Saharan Africa don’t have access to formal financial services. Arguably, Africa is narrowing the gap through effective and innovative basic technologies such as mobile money payments and transfer systems. In 2021, the mobile money ecosystem...
How much did Africa put into Morocco’s great performance at the World Cup
It is not axiomatic when the idea of the football World Cup was conceived, but it’s certain when it was first implemented – July 13, 1930. African teams, however first participated in the tournament that immediately followed in 1934. Since then, 21 World Cup tournaments...
In one word: Namuganza
Minister Persis Namuganza The sate minister for Housing, Persis Namuganza, is a bare-knuckles fighter. Namuganza, like a juggernaut, rolls from spat to spat, collecting fights like a bounty hunter. On December 7, Namuganza invited the speaker of parliament, Anita Among, to a duel when she...
Merry Christmas to you all
This Sunday, we are celebrating the birthday of our savior Jesus Christ. Even those who are not Christian, it is a time traditionally spent with family and friends. Christmas, among other things, means forgetting self and coming to the aid of those who are hapless,...
Police rescue 35 children from an illegal school
Police and probation officers at Luweero Child Reception Center Police in the central district of Luweero have rescued 35 learners attending Islamic studies at an illegal school in Nanywa village, Nyimbwa sub-county. The children were transferred to Luweero Central police station. Twenty-four of the learners...
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