A 28-year-old man in Kagoma, Wakiso district, has said President Yoweri Museveni’s ghetto initiative is already turning his life around.
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“I just find myself taking selfies. I do it for personal pleasure, it’s part of me, it’s my life.”
Mutoni Fadhillah, a second year Bachelor of Journalism and Communication student at Makerere University says that her love for selfies has kept growing ever since she got a smart phone. To her, the habbit is now more like an addiction because the longest she can do without a selfie is a day.
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Free WiFi provided by Makerere has had students hooked onto internet around the university campus daily.
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Some residents of Makerere Kikoni continue to dump rubbish in open spaces within the area despite continued efforts by the Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) to put warning posts.
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Police in Kikoni suburb has issued a notice about use and abuse of drugs among the university students.
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Small scale business owners in Kikoni in Makerere University have suffered reduced sales, with many planning to shift to other places. The traders claim they have been making losses, and cannot continue paying rent and not making money.
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It is nearly impossible to talk about the 2018 World University Netball Championships (FISU) without mentioning Mary Cholhok Nuba’s name.
The She Cranes goal shooter/attacker put up a skillful performance for the Uganda side that ended a five-day world event which took place at Makerere University in September.
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Residents of Kitara Rise in Kanyanya, a residential suburb in Kampala have raised concerns about the dark roads which have seemingly imposed a great threat on their lives.
Kanyanya is a suburb of Kampala district located along Gayaza road in Kawempe Division.
Naggita Jovia, one of the residents of Kanyanya who normally uses the road at night says that the roads are always dark with no street lights, which is dangerous to the road users at night.
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Kenyan students in Uganda on Saturday converged at the College of Engineering at Makerere Univsersity for the remembrance of the people who fought tirelessly to liberate their country.
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State minister for primary healthcare, Dr. Joyce Moriku Kaducu, has said many Ugandans are ignorant about the causes, prevention and management of Spina Bifida and hydrocephalous and yet all are at risk.
Dr Moriku says that ignorance is the reason many think it is witchcraft and therefore families do not seek treatment.
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