Puerto Rican artiste jets in Uganda for a project with Vinka

Puerto Rican musician Rafa Pabon is in Uganda for a groundbreaking collaborative project with Ugandan singer Vinka. The two artistes are joining forces to create a fusion of sounds that transcends borders and celebrates the rich diversity of global music. Rafa Pabon boasts an outstanding 1.5 billion streams across all major platforms, accompanied by a […]

David Lutalo’s concert postponed to November

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Public screening of Bobi Wine’s ‘The people’s president’

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Boys perform better than girls in SST, Math, and Science as UNEB releases 2023 PLE results

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Arua couple burnt to death in house fire

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Over 600,000 pass PLE Exams

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Court gives govt ultimatum on Besigye, Lubega case

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UNEB releases 2023 PLE results with drop in division one, two

The Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) announced Thursday that the number of candidates who scored in Divisions One and Two in the 2023 Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE) has seen a slight decrease compared to the previous year. However, UNEB Executive Director Daniel Odong highlighted a positive trend, noting an increase in the number of candidates achieving Division 3 and above compared to 2022 results. Overall, Mr. Odong reported that the pass rate remains consistent with last year, at 88.0%. “A higher proportion of the 2023 candidates passed in Division 3 and above level. Overall, the performance of candidates is comparable to that of 2022,” Mr Odogo said. Encouragingly, the examination body also registered a decline in the number of ungraded […]

Newlywed couple dies in Arua fuel inferno

A newlywed couple has died in a fuel inferno in Arua city, northern Uganda.

Lillian Anguezaru Fungaro, 20, and her husband Emmanuel Adima, 30, got married just two weeks ago. Francis Abiti, a neighbour to the deceased couple told URN that they were woken up by the screams of help by the couple on Tuesday at around 11 pm. Abiti alleges that Adima has been a renowned dealer of smuggled fuel from DR Congo, a claim URN could not independently verify.

According to police, Anguezaru was instantly burnt to death while Adima who managed to run out of the house after sustaining severe burns all over his body succumbed to injuries yesterday Wednesday at Arua regional referral hospital.

Josephine Angucia, police spokesperson for the West Nile region explains that although the regional fire brigade team rushed to the scene after getting the information at around 11:43 pm, they found Anguezaru already burnt beyond recognition. She says that the fire brigade crew managed to extinguish the fire and saved the neighbouring buildings.

Preliminary police investigations attribute the cause of the fire to lighting of a matchbox within the house which was already saturated with fumes of petrol.

Cases of petrol inferno are common in the West Nile region, something the local authorities attribute to the rampant smuggling of fuel from across the South Sudan and DRC border which is facilitated by the porous illegal entry points.

In August last year, Agnes Omveku and her two-year-old son Emmanuel Trinity were burnt to death in a petrol inferno at her shop in Ribini A cell in Maracha Town Council, Maracha district. Similarly, in September 2021, Kassim Ajo, a South Sudanese national perished in an inferno in Koboko district while attempting to save his fuel from a grass-thatched house that had caught fire in Triangle Cell Koboko North Division, Koboko municipality.

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Besigye, Mukaaku case flops over absence of witnesses

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Students forced out of halls over asbestos roofs

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96.1% of closed EFC deposits were held in 20 accounts 

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Bobi Wine - Expect More Protests

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