In a voluminous report stretching 242 pages, a committee of eminent educationists and senior citizens (put together by Minister...

National Institutes of Health (NIH) statistics indicate that 21 million girls aged between 15 and 19 years and two million girls less than 15 years become pregnant every year. About 16 million of these girls give birth each year, mostly 90% in low-income countries at 25%. Uganda has one of the highest teenage pregnancy rates in sub-Saharan Africa.

The most efficient services come from specialized institutions whose knowledge and expertise take many decades to learn and achieve. It is unimaginable, for example, to make Mulago Hospital a department in the Ministry of Health or Makerere University a department in the Ministry of Education. The low quality of service delivery in many government departments deserves improvement, not additional work, and throwing away institutions like paper towels is very difficult to understand.

The National Union of Disabled Persons of Uganda (NUDIPU) has raised concerns over a controversial proposal by the Ministry of Education that seeks to exclude individuals with physical and mental infirmities from serving on the National Teachers Council. 

President Museveni has appointed Alex Kakooza as new Permanent Secretary for Minister for Trade and Industry and Cooperatives, replacing...

Sarah Kisitu Kasule, the Executive Director and founder of Teens and Tots Neuro Development Centre, a Non-Governmental  Organisation (NGO)...

Every time something comes to an end, something else begins. There has been an irreversible increase in fires in...

The Minister of Education and Sports, Janet Kataaha Museveni, has expressed concern over the continuous reduction in registration by...