Over the last couple of years, some European nations have multiplied on endeavors to contain the inundation of migrants from Africa and different regions of the planet, with many mooting harder limitations. While some updated their haven and relocation arrangements, others keep on constraining African states to increment movement controls. Migrants, in many thousands, frequently…
Busoga College Mwiri, once a powerful school that produced lawyers, doctors, engineers, journalists and some of the most prominent politicians in Uganda today did not have any student admitted on government sponsorship at Makerere University this year. According to the list, no student from Mwiri qualified for government sponsorship on any course at Makerere University…
In a stormy meeting this week, junior staff at Vision Group tasked management to raise their pay and improve on their working conditions. The meeting was called after management instituted a survey to establish some of the challenges junior editorial staff face in the execution of their roles. Many freelancers said they can hardly meet…
For the second time in three months, Molly Katanga, the widow of slain businessman Henry Katanga, was denied bail by the High Court this week. This has raised several questions, within the legal fraternity, as to whether the 55-year-old visibly sick widow is not entitled to bail simply because of the gravity of the accusations…
Dr Busingye Kabumba scored aggregate four in PLE in 1993. At O-levels he was the 15th best student in the country and the best at Namilyango College. At A-levels, Kabumba was the best in Uganda scoring Quadruple A in History, Economics, Literature and Divinity (HEL/D). At Makerere University, he one of the two students who…
Gombe Secondary School in Butambala district outperformed other Muslim founded schools according to this year’s admission list of government sponsorsed students at Makerere University and MUBS . Out of the 1500 students admitted to the two institutions on government sponsorship, Gombe had a total of 36 students. This is more than double the number of…
For the first time in many years, Kings College Budo and Mount St Mary’s Namagunga did not have any of their students admitted on government for the Bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy at Makerere University this year. Last year, Budo and Namagunga has two students each on the prestigious course and in the last ten years…
St Mary’s Kitende SS and Seeta High School, Mukono Campus have dominated the admission list for government sponsored students at Makerere University and Makerere University Business School (MUBS) this year. The two schools, in total, had 287 students admitted on government sponsorship at the two institutions. The lists released this week also indicate that traditional…
Dr Busingye Kabumba, a senior lecturer at Makerere University’s school of Law is under investigation for reportedly setting an examination question that cast Speaker Anita Among in bad light. Kabumba, who teaches Constitutional Law, set the compulsory question for first year students under the course unit: Principles of Constitutional Law II. The question read: “Stung…
President Museveni has met a delegation of investors from Italy who have expressed interest in constructing a railway line from Tororo to Majanji in northern Uganda. During the meeting at State House Entebbe with the delegation, Museveni welcomed the idea and said the railway line will cater for the traffic from Northern Uganda and some…
