Makerere University suspends lecturer who was recorded slapping student
Makerere University vice chancellor, Prof Barnabas Nawangwe has interdicted a lecturer who was recorded on phone slapping a female student. Yesterday Saturday, social media was awash with a video clip showing Bernard Wandera from the college of humanities and social sciences (CHUSS) slapping a student...
Experts disagree over increasing primary education cycle to 8 years
Primary learners The Uganda National Teachers Union (Unatu) has recommended an extension of the primary school cycle by one year and cutting the time spent in the lower secondary from four to three years. This is part of Unatu’s memorandum to the Education Policy Review...
Exciting times for John Wick fans
John Wick blew our minds when it came out in 2014. It gave Keanu Reeves’ career a much-needed injection of energy. I had forgotten that Reeves even existed until I saw him in Man of Tai Chi in 2013. John Wick had a simple premise;...
What films to watch this week
Jantje Friese and Baran Bo Odar made waves in 2017 when they created Dark, a German science-fiction time- traveling masterpiece. And now they are back with 1899, an epic period mystery horror series in which a group of European migrants on a steamship encounter another...
Restaurant G’s secret is in quantity, pilau
If you ever needed any evidence that Kampala’s economic epicentre is downtown, just visit G’s restaurant at Kirumira Towers along William street. While the uptown eateries are in a struggle for diners and are all crying ‘economy, economy’, G’s restaurant is a beehive of activity,...
Afrexim to open office in Nairobi
The announcement was made after a meeting between Dr Ruto and Afrexim president Prof Benedict Oramah in Nairobi on Thursday. President Ruto said the office is expected “allow us to expand our engagement with the bank on several investment areas such as infrastructure, housing, the creative industry...
Ethiopia starts selling power to Kenya, eyes $100m annual returns
The long-awaited power sale to Nairobi comes one week after Ethiopia conducted a successful test run of electricity supply to Kenya via the 500KV cross-border transmission power line built to link power grids of the two neighbours.
Dr Paul Kawanga Ssemogerere dead
Dr Paul Kawanga Ssemogerere Former Democratic Party president and two-time presidential candidate Dr Paul Kawanga Ssemogerere has passed on at the age of 90. Ssemogerere who led DP for over 25 years died early Friday at his home in Rubaga. He was born on February...
Police fires teargas at NUP supporters remembering Nov 2020 riot victims
The police on Friday fired teargas to disperse supporters of the National Unity Platform (NUP) political party who had gathered at their party headquarters to remember those killed during the November 2020 riots. November 18 marked two years since at least 54 people were killed...
Two arrested over attack on Gaddafi barracks
FILE PHOTO Two people have been arrested in connection to an attack on Gadaffi barracks in Jinja city, eastern Uganda. On Thursday, unknown people attacked the barracks and killed Sgt Simon Peter Eyagu who was guarding Ambercoat road close to the barracks. During the attack,...
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