Uganda Christian University (UCU) Mukono has launched an initiative to add value to Ugandan processed rice. This is aimed at encouraging students to practice agriculture after school. Through a partnership with the Uganda private sector dealing in quality rice and coffee processing, UCU is set to train agribusiness students unique ways of adding value to […]
Public universities have confirmed that they will not end the strike although the government has released Shs29b for their salary enhancement. The staff have vowed that, before the Shs4.3b arrears for support staff is paid, their strike is still on. In the press release on Tuesday, the Ministry of Finance said that the Shs29.5b released included […]
A Makerere University student who was reportedly kidnapped has died just weeks after being released by his captors. Simon Ashaba Faith, 22, a third-year student of Social Sciences and resident of Nkrumah Hall was kidnapped by an unknown gang on November 28 from the Wandegeya campus. The assailants then used his phone to call the […]
Four Uganda Christian University students were on Saturday arrested for allegedly smoking shisha in the Cassablanca, Mukono, a known spot for shisha smokers. The anti tobacco operations was jointly made by the Uganda National Health Consumers Organisation (UNHCO) and the police under the Tobacco Control Act 2015. The students have been taken to Mukono Police Station […]
Kyambogo University is planning to enlarge its main sources of funding to enable the University run efficiently, according to the Vice Chancellor Prof Elly Katunguka. Katunguka was attending the press conference last Friday in Entebbe after the University Council retreat and cited renting out University idle land to investors would be key. “The university has […]
The president of Uganda, his execellence,Yoweri Museveni, on Sunday September o9, delivered an address on the state of affairs in the country. Among others, president Museveni highligted the urban crime that saw the death of the Sheikhs, of Joan Kagezi, Kiggundu, Kawesi, Magara, Abiriga and scared people. He stated that “some of the criminals in these […]
The name Asantehene has been making rounds in Kampala and other suburbs in Uganda. Among Ugandans, the name connotes to the Ghanaian King who donated a golden Chair to the King of Buganda as a gift on the latter’s coronation. Ugandans could also not believe their eyes at the number of servants that escorted the […]
The Sophia University Scholarships are open now for spring 2019 intake. Scholarships will be awarded to students who have Japanese nationality and foreign nationals for pursuing undergraduate and graduate degree programme. The Sophia University New Students Scholarship is intended to contribute to developing human resources by supporting students whose first choice of school is Sophia University […]