Rich nations pledged to contribute at least $300 billion annually to the global fight against climate change as UN climate talks came to a contentious end early Sunday morning in Baku. Developing nations who had sought over $1 trillion in assistance called the agreement an “insult” and argued it did not give them the vital…
Once Upon A time…Students from all over the region craved to study at Makerere University. That was in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s when the institution was regarded as the ‘Harvard’ of Africa. Among other faculties, the university arguably had the best Medical School in the region. It was also the bastion of academic research…
Stanbic Bank has awarded 97 agent bankers countrywide who met their transaction targets for the last back-to-school period of 2024 in the concluding Oli Sorted campaign. The bank has so far handed out rewards worth totaling Shs 50 million since mid-year. Albert Yiga, Head of Stanbic Education Sector at Stanbic Bank said the campaign encompasses…
A section of teachers at Kampala Parents School in Naguru today morning briefly downed their tools, protesting what they termed as poor pay and harsh working conditions. Some who talked to Bbeg Media said they are paid between Shs 600,000 and Shs 650,000 per month which cannot enable them navigate the high cost of living…
In their groundbreaking academic research: Liability or asset? Women talk about the vagina, researchers Virginia Braun and Sue Wilkinson spent several months interviewing several women and men in New Zealand and Canada respectively to get their perceptions on the “vagina.” The 2003 study was published in the British Psychological Society Journal. Most women, according to…
Albert Cook Tugume, the young brother to Doreen Nyanjura, the Kampala deputy lord mayor had fought several battles. He battled through school. He started one small business after another. Tugume, 33, did everything to make ends meet in this hectic city even if he had a famous sister. Yesterday, Tugume, a proud Liverpool supporter, tried…
In the early 2000s when he worked as a sports reporter for The Sunrise newspaper at National Theatre, Ramathan Ggoobi endlessly effused about Kenneth Matovu, the gifted New Vision sports journalist and columnist who perished in an accident in 2001. Ggoobi, then wanted to become the next “Matovu” only that he appeared more interested in…
The arrest (or abduction) of Dr Kizza Besigye from Kenya sent shock waves within the opposition ranks and evoked memories of the 70s and early 80s when such acts were commonplace in the region. Besigye and Obeid Lutale Kamulegeya were yesterday charged in the General Court Martial with illegal possession of firearms and remanded to…
Stanbic Bank Uganda has announced an increase in its unsecured loan offering to Savings and Credit Cooperative Organizations (SACCOs) from Shs 200 million to Shs 4 billion, attained at an interest rate of only 10%. This bold step was unveiled during the bank’s SACCOs Forum, recently hosted at Onomo Hotel in Kampala. Francis Karuhanga, the…
Baku, Azerbaijan: Uganda has been lauded for the pioneering and visionary strides that the country has made in green financing necessary to slow the adverse impact of climate change. The country’s progressive policy environment and government’s efforts in extending patient capital to private enterprises in areas of low carbon industrialization, green manufacturing and climate resilient…
