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Victoria University Appoints New Deputy VC
Victoria University have announced Prof. Augustine Osamor IFE as their new Deputy Vice Chancellor. Prof. Augustine joined Victoria University as the new Deputy Vice Chancellor in charge of Academic Affairs (DVCAA) effective February 1, 2022. Dr. Lawrence Muganga, the Victoria University Vice Chancellor said; “Augustine brings a bold new vision and vigour to Victoria University…
PROFILE: What You Didn’t Know About East Africa’s Tycoon Sudhir Ruparelia, The Big-Hearted Moneybag
Property Mogul, Dr Sudhir Ruparelia (65) is a self-made dollar billionaire entrepreneur. He was born in Uganda in 1956, but in 1972 together with his parents, had to relocate to the United Kingdom, following the then President Idi Amin Dada’s expulsion of Asians. As a teenage refugee in London, the 16-year Sudhir once had to…
Kampala Parents Urges Teachers To Adapt Teaching Approaches For Learners With Special Needs
The coronavirus (COVID19) that rattled the world in the past two years has left many children with different learning and education needs and therefore teachers must adapt varying teaching approaches to address these needs sustainably, Kampala Parents’ School has advised. For Kampala Parents School, an international school that offers a local curriculum, this has been…
Opposition MPs Walk Out Of Parliament In Protest Of Torture
Members of Parliament (MPs) from the opposition faction have walked out of Parliament in protest of the torture of their colleagues. Led by the Leader of Opposition in Parliament, Mathias Mpuuga, the MPs will not be in Parliament for two weeks. The legislators sat in front of Parliament chanting, “free our people” before they all…
Campaign To Raise Shs 210M For Kusasira’s Kidney Transplant Kicks Off
A campaign to raise USD 60,000 (approximately Shs 210,001,860), which is needed to fly Ivan Kusasira, 39 years, out of the country for urgent kidney transplant has kicked off. The fundraising campaign that is being conducted by friends, relatives and Good Samaritans, is at flying Kusasira to India such that can have a kidney in…
Kabira Country Club Unveils Sumptuous ‘Coffee & Croissant’ Budget Meal At Only UGX15,000
Kampala’s luxurious Kabira Country Club has unveiled a spectacular Good Morning package Dubbed “Coffee & Croissant” in which guests and businessmen can now be served a cup of coffee and a fresh croissant at a budget rate of just Shs 15,000, yes 15k only. Wondering what a croissant is?, Read here: A croissant is a laminated,…
Bomb Blast: 13 Killed In Bus At Eastern Kenya Border
Kenyan police say one suspect has been arrested after an improvised explosive device killed at least 13 passengers and injured others in a bus traveling in northeast Kenya near the border with Somalia. Kenyan police in northeast Mandera county say the 14-seat bus was heading to Mandera town early Monday when it drove over the…
How Uganda’s 10% CPO Tax Has Enabled Tax Free, Illegal Products On The Market-John Nakku
Ever since Government of Uganda introduced the unpopular among industrialists a UgX200 levy on each litre of Cooking Oil and the 10% import duty on Crude Palm Oil products in July 2021 despite the fact that Crude Palm Oil is a critical raw material for processors of Oil and Oil Products in Uganda, key sector…
Police Warn Bodaboda Operators Organizing Protests Against Gov’t Decision To Keep Curfew Restrictions
Kampala Metropolitan Police have warned a group of people disguising as motorcycle (boda boda) operators who are planning to stage demonstrations to disrupt government systems to ease the boda boda curfew hours that they will be dealt with accordingly. According to Patrick Onyango the Kampala Metropolitan police spokesperson, they received credible information that opportunistic people…
Tears As Former BOU Governor Mutebile Laid To Rest
Hundreds of mourners on Sunday thronged Kigezi High School Primary playground to attend the final send-off of the departed Bank of Uganda Governor Prof . Emmanuel Tumusiime Mutebile. Mutebile passed away on Sunday morning at Aga Khan Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya, at the age of 72, after suffering multiple organ failures. Prime Minister Nabanja interacts…