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By Gerald Businge “This interview has to take less than ten minutes. I have to go for my meal,” Omar Lee Robertson says, after agreeing to sit down for this interview. Robertson is seated on the verandah at 2576 Bancroft Way, the same time I have seen him when I pass by this route. It […]
By Alfred Odong, Ultimate Media Many people have for long known Jinja as Uganda’s most industrialized town, which in addition accommodates the country’s only power dam and the source of the worlds’ longest river, the Nile. But after the 1970s turmoil under Idi Amin who chased Asian businessmen who had developed the town and established […]
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 […]
Ultimate Media Ugandan Rotarians have joined fellow Rotarians across the world to solicit funds, which will help African countries eradicate polio. The chairperson and National coordinator of the Global polio eradication initiative in Uganda, Henry Kyemba says they are soliciting 200 million US dollars to add on to the 900 million US dollars which their […]
By Jude Bukenya, Ultimate Media Despite the various efforts to improve urban sanitation in Kampala, close to 40,000 residents in Kampala still lack access to proper sanitation facilities. The coordinator Kampala Urban Sanitation program, Dr Dan Twebaze says that most people lack facilities like toilets and access to clean water among other facilities. Twebaze says […]
By Jude Bukenya, Ultimate Media As part of the efforts to advocate for exclusive breast feeding among women, local council leaders have been asked to discourage bottle feeding for young babies. The senior health educationist at the Ministry of Health Child Division, Tabley Bakyaita said that local leaders should encourage women to fully breastfeed children […]