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Meet The 20 Year Old Millionaire Who Turned Down Harvard To Build His Company In Kenya Despite Being Orphaned At Age 11
Mubarak Muyika was not a conventional school boy, the kind that depended on Dad and Mum for almost everything, from food to underwear. Not that he detested such luxury, but life didn’t just let him have it.
Orphaned at the age of 11, Mubarak knew he... Read More
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When you meet Francis Ssewankambo, he is jolly and conversational. He speaks to strangers with ease. This trait has made him a darling to his workmates and classmates.
As we meet at Makerere University’s College of Humanities and Social Sciences, he is dressed in grey jeans and a black T-shirt with sandals.
He wipes sweat off his brow using his... Read More
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Thefts of the popular motorcycle taxis, commonly referred to as boda boda is one of the notorious crimes in Uganda.
In 2014, Uganda Police investigated 214 cases of aggravated robbery of motorcycles, according to the Annual Crime Report for 2014.
Kampala Metropolitan North regions registered the highest number with 27 cases, followed by Malaba with 22 cases, Kampala... Read More
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She is an advocate with Rwakafuuzi & Company Advocates and the founder of Domestic Violence Legal Aid Uganda (DOVILAID) which offers free legal aid to children, women and the elderly experiencing domestic violence.
Pamba is the third of four girls born to the late Gilbert Okumu Barasa and Rose Okumu Tibiwa who succumbed to HIV/Aids in 1998 and 1997 respectively. The four... Read MoreWhen Dr. Etheldreda Nakimuli-Mpungu graduated from medical school, her mother told her, "OK, good. But you know it's not good to just be a doctor."
Umm, what?
"She, said, 'There's some doctors you go to and they don't make you better. I want you to be one of the doctors that really makes people better,' " Mpungu recalls. "And I... Read More
Well, who ever had the notion that girls are not as smart as boys or that they cannot take on hard science subjects should start thinking otherwise.
ChimpReports brings you Uganda’s second female Aerospace Engineer, Lynette... Read More
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Deloitte is renowned for its innovative and collaborative culture, where... Read More
For hundreds of years, scientists have experimented with various methods of generating energy. These have included steam, solar and hydrocarbon fuel. As MOSES TALEMWA found, scientists at Makerere University are engaged in a promising study into how to obtain energy from steam.
On a hot morning last week, I arrived at... Read More
The Academic Registrar, Makerere University invites applications from Ugandan, East African’s, Sudan and international applicants for the undergraduate programmes under the private sponsorship scheme for the 2016/2017 academic year the details are as follows:
Each applicant should:
Read More Neccessity has surely been the mother of great innovations. The world is surely in great need of ingenious solutions to effectively harness mother nature .Hinding to such a call for great innovators to challenge conventional rules and boundaries in food and agricture, Team FRUTI-CYCLE was born.by ordinary students from... Read More
“Love your neighbour as you love yourself.” That is the second greatest commandment in Christian faith. Students of Gayaza high school have adopted this decree through a community project to teach pupils of the neighbouring Gayaza Church of Uganda (C.O.U) primary school.
I check into Gayaza High school on a Friday afternoon. It is... Read MoreMakerere University is one the best fifty universities in the world to study development studies, a new ranking have revealed.
The sixth edition of the QS World University Rankings by Subject means that... Read MoreAs previously anticipated, Kiira Motors Cooperation (KMC) has finally unveiled to the media and the public the solar-powered Kayoola Bus at Namboole Stadium. The 35 seater bus marks the beginning of Ugandan made mass transportation powered by clean energy and has taken KMC four years to plan, design and... Read More
In the searing heat under clear skies in Kitagobwa village, Wakiso District, Ms Rebecca Nakiganda is bespattered with mud.
She is wearing a black skirt and a matching top. Ms Nakiganda, 31, scoops a mound of wet mud, throws it with a bang into a mould and sprints to a levelled ground to lay out the brick. Dry banana leaves... Read MoreMakerere University entered a partnership with The MasterCard Foundation to offer scholarships to 1,000 academically bright but... Read More
Makerere University will scrap courses that have over the years failed to attract many students, the vice chancellor Professor John Ddumba-Ssentamu has said.
Though he did not name all the courses of study with fewer students, he said science disciplines would not be affected.
“It is not... Read MoreMap out your own career path to your dream Job