On November 14th, president, Yoweri Museveni appointed a nine member visitation committee chaired by Dr. Abel Rwendeire, the deputy chairperson of the National Planning Authority to investigate into the affairs of Makerere University.
Sarah Nakamya, the Nakasongola District Agriculture Officer, says 70 percent of the families in the district are battling a food crisis due to crop failure in the past two seasons.
When the national examinations body UNEB releases the primary seven results in January 2017, Ssendagala Mahadt Ssewanya hopes to be among the over 640,000 pupils waiting. The 14-year-old sat the recently concluded 2016 Primary Leaving Examinations PLE barely a week after Doctors at Mulago National Referral Hospital carried out a minor operation on him.
Another morning downpour in Kampala soaked several candidates sitting the Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education UACE examinations as the exercise entered its second day across the country.
Speaking at a joint meeting held at Dinners Caf at Ham Towers on Monday, Robert Bukembo, the Gulu University Guild President and Chairperson Public Universities Students Leadership Forum, said the decision to close Makerere indefinitely was high handed and harsh.
On November 11, 2016, Beatrice Atingu Stella, the Assistant Registrar of the High Court Civil Division issued orders restraining Ndejje University, its servants or agents and any persons from preventing the students from accessing the University campus, and sitting examinations until their application is determined.
The officials stormed the school on the directives from the Director of Education Standards in the Education and Sports Ministry in line with a High court ruling ordering the closure of Bridge Academies across the country.
