Have you ever felt such intense pain in your feet that all you wanted to do was cut them off, just to do away with the pain? Well, it happened to me a few years back in high school. Out of the blue, I wake up one morning feeling a really strange pain in my feet. It was as though my feet had been electrified. I tried to brush it off, but the pain worsened.
Appears in: electrified, foot massage, pain-killers, Commentary
Post date: 11 years 5 days ago
Appears in: campus girls, Makerere University, Campus
Like every other society, there will always be a particular group of people who are just outright annoying. Makerere University is not an exception and here are some of the irritants.
Post date: 11 years 5 days ago
Appears in: boda-boda, JOCOM, Business
I salute all my brothers and sisters both actively and passively involved in this notorious faction of the economy. This sector is so big that Mulago Hospital spends Shs1.5 billion on treating boda boda patients each year. On-the-road actors in Kampala alone outnumber Makerere University students by far.
Post date: 11 years 5 days ago
Appears in: Annual Media Convention, Journalism Uganda, Campus
All is set for this year’s Annual Media Convention (AMC) scheduled for Thursday 31st and Friday 1st November at Fairway Hotel in Kampala.
The two-day event will bring together journalists and media practitioners, public communication experts, policy makers and government officials, academicians, civil society and development partners, as well as Journalism and Communication students from Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Namibia, Zambia and Germany.
Post date: 11 years 3 weeks ago
Appears in: convention, Commentary
Milly Dowler a 14- year old British girl on her way to school in Walton -on- Thames on 21st March 2011 was murdered.
Post date: 11 years 5 months ago
Appears in: Commentary
An intense scandal that happened in the United Kingdom, 9,867 km from Uganda, sent waves across the journalism world with effects that are to be far reaching. The News International phone-hacking scandal was one involving News of the World and other British newspapers published by News International, a subsidiary of News Corporation. In 2011, it was found that one or more employees of these newspapers hacked into Milly Dowler’s phone (a murdered teenager) to get a story to run.
Post date: 11 years 7 months ago
Appears in: MAKERERE, National
Makerere University’s ranking has improved from 12th in Africa in 2011 to 9th in 2012 according to the Scimago Institutions Ranking (SIR) World Report 2012 . Makerere is the only institution in Uganda that featured in the ranking and is competing with directly-funded Institutions from South Africa, Nigeria and Tunisia.
Post date: 11 years 7 months ago
Appears in: BBC World Service, Campus
This was revealed during a brief meeting of the BBC team representatives and students from the department of Journalism and Communication who have offered to volunteer with the team throughout the event.
Post date: 11 years 7 months ago
Appears in: BBC World Service, Campus
The BBC World Service team has held a meeting with Journalism and Communication student voluteers in preparation for the first ever Science festival in Africa to be hosted by Makerere University at the Freedom square from Sunday 24th to Thursday 28th March 2013.
Post date: 11 years 7 months ago
Appears in: University-Hospital, Campus
It is a bright sunny afternoon on Tuesday, 11th December 2012 at the Makerere University Hospitaland a few hours away from the official launch of the Safe Male Circumcision (SMC) services by the U.S. Ambassador to Uganda H.E. Scott DeLisi. Under a semi-permanent structure at the back of the facility, a few young men and adult males are gathered and listening intently to a facilitator as she briefs them about SMC and post-surgery care.
Post date: 11 years 8 months ago