How Sudhir arm-twisted teachers, ended strike at Kampala Parents School

Sudhir Ruparelia, the owner of Kampala Parents School, today nipped in the bud the strike by his teachers after agreeing to make some changes to their working conditions. However a scruitny of the recommendations from the meeting Sudhir held with the parents, teachers and his management team reveals that the tycoon eventually triumphed. For instance,…

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‘No toilet tissue, UTIs and poor quality food’, Parents fume over falling standards at Kampala Parents School

A stormy meeting between parents and management of Kampala Parents School over the grievances of teachers ended with a resolution that pupils stay home for two days until all issues are resolved. It follows a sit down strike by teachers of the school last week over poor pay and harsh working conditions. The teachers had…

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Sam Omala flew too close to the sun and got burnt. Now he’s fighting for his life

Sam Omala, the retired Assistant Commissioner of Police who rose to prominence after ‘tormenting’ Dr Kizza Besigye during the walk-to-work protests in 2011, is now fighting for his life at Mulago Hospital. Videos and images of Omala lying on his hospital bed last week evoked mixed reactions. Clearly, the officer who made a name for…

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Ijara and Museveni

Ijara embraced Museveni’s four-acre model. He says he now earns Shs 500 million per year

Joseph Ijara was a humble taxi driver in Soroti. Then one day, his boss fired him. For a time he felt angry and underappreciated. Then he attended Intrenational Youth Day celebrations in Soroti where President Museveni preached about the four-acre model. Museveni’s speech struck the right chord and Ijara embraced farming. “I owned 2.5 acres…

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Once Upon A Time…Makerere was the ‘Harvard’ of Africa, now it’s a glorified secondary school

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…

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23 million women in Uganda have it. So why are some terrified by the word “Vagina”?

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…

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