{"id":2875,"date":"2021-06-24T08:37:28","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T08:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spicefmhoima.com\/?p=2875"},"modified":"2022-01-19T12:05:18","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T12:05:18","slug":"radio-stations-in-hoima-miss-out-on-govt-on-air-teaching-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/2021\/06\/24\/radio-stations-in-hoima-miss-out-on-govt-on-air-teaching-programs\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio Stations in Hoima Miss Out on Gov&#8217;t On Air Teaching Programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Peter Abanabasazi<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2876\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2876\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2876 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/IMG-20210624-WA0018-300x157.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/IMG-20210624-WA0018-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/IMG-20210624-WA0018-1024x537.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/IMG-20210624-WA0018-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/IMG-20210624-WA0018.jpg 1195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2876\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Johnson Kusiima Baingana, the Hoima City Principal Education Officer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Radio stations in Greater Hoima have missed out on the list of media houses so far selected to implement on-air teaching program during the second closure of learning institutions over the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson Kusiima Baingana, the Hoima City Principal Education Officer says he is dismayed that not even a single radio station from Hoima City and district were selected to broadcast the on-air teaching program yet there are many children who need to continue learning while at home.<\/p>\n<p>He explains that only Radio Kitara in Masindi district and Kibaale Kagadi Community Radio (KKCR) in Kagadi district were selected in the entire region.<\/p>\n<p>However, Baingana says education officials in Hoima are lobbying the ministry of education to reconsider at least one radio in the district.<\/p>\n<p>Residents of Hoima and Kikuube districts rely on Hoima City based radio stations for information. The radio stations include a Catholic religious based Radio Maria Uganda, while the commercial stations include Liberty Broadcasting services (LBS), Radio Hoima and Spice FM.<\/p>\n<p>If the on-air teaching programs are not expanded, it means children from Hoima, Kikuube, Buliisa districts will not benefit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Peter Abanabasazi Radio stations in Greater Hoima have missed out on the list of media houses so far selected to implement on-air teaching program during the second closure of learning institutions over the COVID-19 pandemic. Johnson Kusiima Baingana, the Hoima City Principal Education Officer says he is dismayed that not even a single radio [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2876,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2875","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bunyoro","8":"category-education"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3381,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2875\/revisions\/3381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}