In my country Uganda, primary education is dedicated seven years, and then another six years are spent on secondary education, which is split into two years of upper secondary school and four years of lower secondary school. After secondary school, a learner pursues post-secondary education for three to five years. All of these steps need to be completed quickly in order to adequately prepare workers who have the necessary qualifications. https://umojastandard.com/2024/05/07/here-are-ugandan-mps-ministers-who-dislike-themselves-most-probably-cant-eat-on-the-same-plate/ https://umojastandard.com/2024/05/06/breaking-news-govt-declares-friday-public-holiday/ Yoweri Museveni, the president of Uganda, was the first African leader to defy the norm, nevertheless. When the boy was in third grade, Uganda’s President Idi Amin Dada…
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Horror as the family of a 16-year-old South African girl who died after drinking rat poison has revealed that she committed suicide after finding out she was born out of rape. Musa Tshabalala, a grade 10 learner at East Bank High School in Alexandra in  Johannesburg, committed suicide on 17 April 2024 and her 78-year-old grandmother is currently struggling to bury her. Musa’s cousin, Buyisiwe Tshabalala, told a local publication, ZiMoja on Friday, May 3, that she believed that Tshabalala killed herself because she had never met her mother. “Musa’s upbringing was very sad. She was conceived through rape when her…
Reports indicate that the surrender occurred on Sunday April 28, 2024, when the said terrorist, who had reportedly escaped from the terrorists’ stronghold in Yale, Sambisa forest, turned himself in to troops stationed at the 112 Task Force Battalion in Mafa. According to intelligence sources, including insights from Counter-Insurgency Expert and Security Analyst Zagazola Makama, the surrendered A member of Boko Haram Terrorists, identified as Sajeh Yaga, has surrendered to the troops of Operation Hadin Kai in Borno state, Nigeria. terrorist was found in possession of weaponry and communication devices. The items surrendered include one AK47 rifle, four AK47 magazines,…
In a sad exprience, a man has narrated how he paid a doctor to inject him and end his life after he woke up in a hospital and found himself without legs after he got run over by a truck. According to him, he met the love of his life in his village, and they got married and started living as husband and wife. They were blessed with four children, two boys, and two girls. His life changed one day as he was heading to his usual work of offloading trucks. A few meters from his workplace, as he was…
Ernest Andrew , the eighteen-year-old drop-out of school in 2018 because his parents could not pay his fees. Bored, idle, and with a mind that needed to stay active, he set out to nurture his love for electrical energy and developed the innovative generator using scrap materials and basic tools. According to reports, Andrew has always been fascinated by how things work and figured he needed to find a way to help his community. “The power from my generator is stored in bottles. I experiment with magnetic power to determine how much electricity I can produce,” he said. After determining…
His Royal Highness (HRH) The Kabaka of Buganda, Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II, is still abroad for specialized treatment, the cultural institution has said. The Katikkiro, Charles Peter Mayiga, informed the kingdom parliament sitting at Bulange, Mengo, on Monday, May 6, 2024 that the Kabaka has not been given a green light by his doctors to return. “I’m informing Buganda once again that the Kabaka is still abroad where he went for an appointment with his medical handlers,” Mayiga said on Monday. “He will only come back when his doctors find him fit to come home but not the people on…
Buildings both Residential and commercial and the operations along Lake Victoria’s shores have ground to a halt due to rising water levels at Gabba Landing Site. The inundation of homes in the lakeside slum of Katoogo, located in Ggaba near the Ggaba NWSC water treatment site, has forced residents to adapt by sleeping on elevated platforms and storing belongings above ground to escape the encroaching water. Kisumu finds itself cut off from Ahero due to this surge, highlighting the severity of the situation. At the heart of this issue lies Uganda, holding the pivotal role of determining the lake’s water…
When she was sworn in as Speaker of Parliament last year, the Bukedea District Woman MP, Anita Among (NRM), appealed to MPs to work as one family as they strive to turn the House into a pro-people’s Parliament.However, some MPs are like co-wives. They don’t see eye-to-eye. Even efforts to reconcile them have all fallen flat as MPs continue to bay for each other’s blood at Parliament. https://umojastandard.com/2024/05/06/breaking-news-govt-declares-friday-public-holiday/ SSEMUJJU-MAFABI In fact, a clear observation of the behaviour of some MPs around the corridors of Parliament indicates that if Kira Municipality MP Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda (FDC) meets the Budadiri West MP,…
The Namibian authorities are being urged to halt plans to extend a port on the Shark Island peninsula after the discovery of unmarked graves and artefacts relating to the Herero and Nama genocide. Forensic Architecture, a non-profit research agency, said it had located sites of executions, forced labour, imprisonment and sexual violence that occurred when the island was used by the German empire as a concentration camp between 1905 and 1907. More than 65,000 Herero people and 10,000 Nama were killed by German troops between 1904 and 1908 in what is widely acknowledged as the first genocide of the 20th century.…
Kampala. Companies manufacturing electric vehicles, electric batteries, or electric vehicle charging equipment or fabricator of a frame and body of an electric vehicle; and employ 80 percent of Ugandans will not pay Stamp Duty Tax in the 2024/2025 financial year. The exemption is part of the amendments in the Stamp Duty (Amendment) Bill, 2024 that was passed during plenary sitting on Monday, 06 May 2024, chaired by Speaker Anita Among. According to the Bill, to further quality for the exemption; the companies shall have the capacity to use at least 80 percent of the locally produced raw materials, subject to…