The potential that Uganda’s oil sector presents has been confirmed beyond doubt. Tullow Uganda Country Manager, Brian Glover says if Uganda can produce 200, 000 barrels of oil per day, it would generate $5 billion (about 12 trillion shillings) in export earnings for the country, whose current total export earnings stand at $2billion. But according […]
Kenya based KickStart International, the producers of the renowned Moneymaker pumps have reached an agreement with Today’s Children Africa’s Future (TCAF) to start distributing their human driven MoneyMaker irrigation pumps in Uganda. The irrigation pumps will empower farmers in the East Africa country through enabling them to possibly get as many as three crops a […]
Reflections a Japadhola cultural leader on bride price, cultures and colonialism Many people talk glibly about something they call African culture. In The New Vision of March 31, Jenn Jegire of Canada wrote a letter entitled, “Nothing barbaric about bride wealth”. She wrote about bride price, colonialism and African culture. The problem for me is that […]
The government of Uganda has been called upon to put in place more mechanisms to ensure women who are sexually abused and those facing domestic violence get justice. The call was made by international human rights organization Amnesty International at the launch of their new report I Can’t Afford Justice – Violence against women in […]
Ultimate Media The recent past has seen a lot of criticism directed at Makerere University for supposedly not producing graduates with limited skills to meet the demands of market conditions. While this can be dismissed as Makerere hate talk in some circles, the local business community through the Uganda Private Sector Foundation in its budget […]
Ultimate Media Business has come to a standstill in Katwe, a Kampala suburb today morning when youth supporters of the ruling National Resistance Movement government marched on the city roads launching the fourth term for President Museveni. The supporters guided by the Five Resident District Commissioners of Kampala and police urged Museveni to stand for […]
By EUNICE RUKUNDO, Ultimate Media With just 15points from her A Level exam results, Jean Ayikoru Longo would not have made it to any university on government sponsorship, leave alone join Makerere University. Yet the fact that she managed to scoop that many points although she is blind is proof that she could have performed […]
Right from its genesis, the game of football has seen passionate support. Fans go mad whenever their teams loose or win. Some smash TV sets, cursing coaches whenever things don’t go their way while the applause normally go to the players for any positive result, tagging them with nick names that at times even erase […]
By Gideon Munaabi Ogenda ogenda (Are you going, are you going)……….These are the words you will rarely miss when you approach a taxi stage in and around Uganda’s capital, Kampala. This is the daily job of the mostly rough taxi touts spread all over the city stages and those in the neighboring districts. As the […]
By Burite Joseph It is easier for most Ugandan drivers to entrust a million shillings with a kid than pull into a fuel station and look the other side sure of having their whole worth of fuel. Such has been the perception towards a pump attendant that the notoriety associated with it virtually eludes the […]