A team of staff from Radio Maria has visited different communities in and around Makerere University to celebrate mass and recite the rosary with them.
The communities visited by the radio staff this week include University Hall, Nkuruma Hall, Kikoni and Kikumi-kikumi among others. The radio staff was targeting Catholics who pray at St Augustine’s Chapel, Makerere.
Frequent power outages at Makerere University are threatening the operations of small businesses within the campus, the business operators have said.
Photocopiers and printer operators have for the last three days been rendered idle as a result of power outage which sometimes goes on for over 10 hours.
Expectant mothers at Kawempe Referral Hospital fear for their lives as a result of the blood shortage at the hospital.
Under normal circumstance, the hospital bank must have 40 units of blood daily for emergencies but instead, a tour of their blood store revealed the hospital had only four units in their storage fridge.
Traders operating in Kikuubo, Kampala central have cried out to the Minister for Kampala to provide them public toilets and street lighting.
A health expert has warned that unhygienic use of boda boda helmets could spread diseases such as tuberculosis and Hepatitis B.
Dr. Teddy Adero, from Kampala Family Clinic, says the helmets may protect the passenger in case of accidents, but that passing them on from one passenger to another without proper cleaning is a recipe for disaster. Dr Adero explains that Tuberculosis and Hepatitis B are some of the diseases that can be easily spread by sharing helmets.
Government has launched the Social Assistance Grants for Empowerment (SAGE) programme in Sheema District, South-western Uganda.
Makerere University freshers were driven crazy at the freshers’ ball held on Friday September 28. <
The new Nile Bridge is to be commissioned by President Yoweri Museveni on October 17.
This was confirmed after conducting a bridge structural health monitoring system on Friday 28th which included static load testing and vibration test on the cables.
Two robbers broke into a student’s room in the slums of Kikoni near God Is Able Hostel and robbed money, a smartphone as well as a laptop after assaulting him.
“The Fiesta Ug Rolls are in two different types which include beef rolex and a chicken rolex”.
A new type of rolex has been introduced in Kikoni areas around Makerere University. Unlike the ordinary egg and chapatti sandwich, the new modified rolex caters for a variety of its consumer’s tastes and preferences as one can have either a beef or a chicken rolex accordingly.