NAKIWOGO- Passengers using Nakiwogo, Entebbe route to Kalangala have expressed concerns also faulting Marine Vessel (MV) authorities for not issuing them with life jackets.
Travelers said that they feel unsafe using the vessel without jackets citing the recent incident in the neighboring Tanzania where over 70 people lost their lives in Lake Victoria.
A group of six students doing masters of Arts in Economic Policy Management have come up with a plan (Wakanda festyle) to offer organised transportation services within the university
Wakanda lifestyle will operate Wakanda branded shuttles that will move between two routes and will operate from 6:30am to 09:30pm on a daily basis targeting the general university students but especially the students.
Eye specialists attribute the many blindness cases in Uganda to eye health ignorance and poor lifestyles.
According to Dr. Simon Arunga Achaali, an eye specialist at Mbarara Referral Hospital, a person’s way of life determines their eye health.
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 will need to develop entrepreneurship ideas and start their own businesses, as a solution to the biting youth unemployment in the country.
Makerere University students have embarked on a campaign to boost domestic tourism by visiting the various tourist attractions in the country as a way of encouraging other Ugandans to follow suit.
Fourteen students mainly from the College of Business and Management Sciences (COBAMS) and the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHUSS) started the campaign last weekend by camping on the beaches of Kalangala district on Lake Victoria.
A 38-year-old man with physical disabilities rides for seven kilometres to Soroti town daily to work as a bicycle mechanic.
Julius Odongo has been riding a wheelchair to work for the past 10 years and it is partly from this job that he earns money to take care of his wife and six children.
"I have some work I do especially digging and bicycle repairing and I have now taken 10 years. It has so far helped me to sustain my life," says Odongo.
President Yoweri Museveni has blocked a suggestion of establishing Museveni Excellence Centre proposed by the political science Department at Makerere University.
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.
Reverend Father Kizito Kirenga, the director of Radio Maria in Uganda, has called upon Catholics to remain focused during this period of the rosary and to stick to the values of love, peace, help and forgiveness.
Father Kirenga was on Sunday leading Mass at St Augustine Chapel, Makerere at the climax of a week of activities meant to promote Radio Maria.
"God gave us the ten commandments to guide our faith and action," he added.