Makerere University students fraternity is mourning the demise of one of its own students who is said to have ended his own life.Mboowa Nasser, a third year student pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in education at Makerere University was reported dead on Monday morning.Sources close t
A man from Mbale City has found himself in trouble and his wife plans to dump him on the graduation day despite educating him with a bachelor in medicine.Masaba Kelvin Tuesday this week faced it rough after
Last month, Energy Minister Davis Chirchir announced that three companies, including Sosian Energy, will generate 105 megawatts of electricity from steam produced by the Menengai geothermal field.Sosian Energy, a local independent power company (IPP), expects to produce 22 megawatts of electricit
A total of 108,492 students out of the 109,488 who turned up for the 2023 Uganda Advanced Certificate of Examinations (UACE) passed with a higher percent
Wiese first got into alluvial diamonds in 1976 when he bought a mine along the Orange River.Christo Wiese, South Africa’s billionaire retail king, is going back to the future.The 82-year-old serial investor, who steered the expansion of both Africa’s biggest clothing reta
A 14-year-old boy from Karamoja sub-region whose story we published on January 27, 2024 seeking help from President Museveni to join secondary school after attempting his primary leaving (PLE) examination for the second time has joined Te
Kenyan peasant farmers welcomed Chief Justice Martha Koome into the world in 1960. She grew up with seventeen other children from two mothers in a polygamous household. She has three children from her marriage to Koome Kiragu.
What you need to know:No eyelids are batted as man and wife inform us that they have written a joint will. They are, in fact, calm and easy-going as they talk to us about that sensitive topic in their home in Lavington, Nairobi.Married for 42 years, and with investments that inclu
At the 74th graduation of Makerere University, Namutebi Abishag Lilian Matovu was among the 132 students awarded the coveted PhD, climaxing a journey she never dreamt would end the way it did.Like many children born to peasant families, education is never assured. Perhaps, this explains wh
What you need to know:President Museveni has been in Busoga sub-region twice in a period of 12 days. First, he was in Jinja City on January 26 when he presided over the 38th anniversary of the National Resistance Movement’s (NRM) rise to power, and th
