Only a few Makerere University students turned up for the registration to get National Identity Cards, as National Identification Registration Authority (NIRA) started the exercise at the University.

Chrispus Ainebyona, an Enrollment Officer at the Complex Hall explains that the numbers were disappointing on the first day of the exercise.

"Students are very few; we have registered only ten students at this center," said Ainebyona.

Students will need to develop entrepreneurship ideas and start their own businesses, as a solution to the biting youth unemployment in the country.

According to the CEO Nice House of Plastics and chairperson of Uganda Manufacturer Association, Ms Barbara Mulwana, one has to believe in starting small, engage mentors for purposes of growth and challenged the youth (especially the youth) to dare and look beyond handouts as everything good comes with a cost.

The College of Natural Sciences (CoNAS) emerged as winners in the Sister's Competition 2018 that was organised by Makerere Muslim community under their umbrella Makerere Muslim Students Association (MUMSA).

Muslim ladies from different colleges on Saturday gathered in the gardens of the Makerere Main Mosque to compete in different activities that included cookery, recitation of Quran, Quiz about Islamic affairs and public speaking.