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Former Namasagali headteacher Rev Fr Grimes' body to be flown back to Uganda

Former Namasagali headteacher Rev Fr Grimes' body to be flown back to Uganda

The government has decided to fly the body of the late Rev Fr Damian Grimes, the former long-serving head teacher of Namasagali College from the United Kingdom back to Uganda ahead of burial at the weekend. According to the tentative burial program released by the alumni of Namasagali C

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Chapter 8: The girl child has seen days

Chapter 8: The girl child has seen days

Previously on The Girl Child Has Seen Days…. The Kyayisewas have decided that they have to fire GC after she threw Edith’s clothes in the garbage. But GC doesn’t know this. She clocked out and went out partying before the news could be delivered.  Now it is time to face the boss…Fi

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The legacy of Kato Lubwama: A journey of art and identity

The legacy of Kato Lubwama: A journey of art and identity

Conrad Saabwe Lubwama, born on June 6, 1998, carries the weight of his father’s legacy while etching his path in the creative industry. His father, the late Paul Kato Lubwama, was a multifaceted entertainer whose influence shaped Saabwe's childhood and ignited his passion for the arts.DM b

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Speak up against domestic violence

Speak up against domestic violence

September 5 will always be remembered as the day Uganda lost one of her sports giants Rebecca Cheptegei, a promising young athlete and runner. Cheptegei’s death was not a result of illness or accident, but of domestic violence—a crime that continues to claim the lives of many women acros

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President Museveni Cautions Leaders Against Using Money in Politics

President Museveni Cautions Leaders Against Using Money in Politics

President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has cautioned leaders against using money in politics, saying that it’s against the National Resistance Movement (NRM)’s 4th principle of democracy. “With Principle No.4 (democracy), we must remove the pollution of using money in politics. Let all leader

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Time Magazine Names Standard Bank Among World’s Best Companies

Time Magazine Names Standard Bank Among World’s Best Companies

Kampala, Uganda – Stanbic Uganda’s mother company—Standard Bank Group, which is also Africa’s largest bank by assets, has been recognised as one of Time Magazine’s World’s Best Companies and Newsweek’s World’s Most Trustworthy Companies. TIME and Newsweek are esteemed media organisat

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Bamasaba culture, deforestation are leading to the decline of the colobus monkey

Bamasaba culture, deforestation are leading to the decline of the colobus monkey

Black and white Colobus monkeys, a rare species of monkeys in the world, are on the brink of extinction in Mt Elgon National Park due to imbalu, a traditional male circumcision ritual among people living on the slopes of Mt Elgon, and deforestation.

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Rebecca Cheptegei to be buried with full military honours

Rebecca Cheptegei to be buried with full military honours

Ugandan Olympic runner Rebecca Cheptegei, who died after allegedly being doused in petrol and set alight by her former partner, was due to be buried on Saturday with full military honours.Cheptegei returned to her home in the highlands of western Kenya, an area popular with international r

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No love lost as NUP set out to unseat Ssemujju

No love lost as NUP set out to unseat Ssemujju

Since its inception in 2020, the National Unity Platform (NUP) has turned introduction ceremonies (customary marriage) in its Buganda cradle into spaces used to spread its gospel of change. Whilst historically an introduction in Buganda has always been an apolitical ceremony for a few

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Cheptegei was killed despite her efforts to protect herself

Cheptegei was killed despite her efforts to protect herself

On the morning of Sunday Sept. 1, Olympic marathon runner Rebecca Cheptegei was preparing to go to church from her home in the highlands of western Kenya. Her ex-boyfriend called a friend of his to ask if he could borrow a lighter.

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