Six third-year students of Makerere University have launched an online sports media platform dubbed "The Equaliser Sport".

The Equaliser Sport has more than 23,000 followers on Facebook and they are still growing.

The students behind the idea include Ndyababwe Myres, Okia John Cosmas, Mugisha Collins, Nsajja Pius and Bulega Immaculate Fortunate all from the Department of Journalism and Communication and Tumusiime Ryan, a law student who is assisting the team on intellectual property rights.

The team worked around the clock to standardise all their social media accounts which include Facebook, Twitter, YouTube channel, Instagram and a website over the past year before launching it as an online company.

"As the saying goes, a young mind is the sharpest mind, it learns quick and acts quicker. The education system of today focuses on books and not learning, but times are changing and because we are young and genius, we chose to take a different path and the launching of The Equaliser Sport has proved it," said Ndyabawe Myres.

He added that the team wants to cause substantial shift in the landscape of social media blogging and citizen journalism which are becoming a threat to the mainstream media or professional journalism. “Therefore, we want our audience to always look up to us for breaking news, updates, videos and as a reliable source in the sports world,” he explains.

Though the team is appreciative of how long they have come, Okia John Cosmas says that they are facing financial challenges which have made it hard for them to purchase equipment such as cameras, recorders and to meet their internet bundles bills.

Okia further explains that their activities have been slowed down because of lack of equipment and sources of funding and called upon the university and department of journalism and communication to support their idea and project. Okia says this can inspire other students studying journalism to be innovate and end up employing themselves at the end of the course instead of looking for jobs and later become unemployed in case one fails to be hired in the field.