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Saving for your child’s education: A quick guide for parents

As a parent, you want to give your child the best possible education. However, paying…

PATRICK NDEGWA: 2023 will be the year of the great Internet expansion

As we move into 2023, it’s becoming increasingly clear that this year will be marked…

SAMUEL OBEDGIU: Can “precision fermentation” microbes feed Africans? I think not!

KAMPALA — There is something that the National Agricultural research organizations on the continent, including…

ALEXANDER KINYERA: Without Peace, there can be no Economic Development

The Somali Civil War is an armed conflict that erupted in Somalia in 1991, following the overthrow…

ANDREW BESI: United for Service and Growth – The Lesson of Janani Luwum

This is how Edem Kodjo described the state of Africa at an Organisation of African…

DENIS JJUUKO: How to be your own NSSF

Some years ago, I walked into the wood-paneled office of one of my mentors, a…

LETTER: My life is in danger for refusing to sell my husband’s remains to the rich man

I am called Cissy Irumba. I will be turning 76 years later this month. My…

DAVID MAFABI: Why Uganda government might never regulate school fees

MBALE —Tuition fee increments are now normal every term in every school across the country;…

PATRICK NDEGWA: Connectivity and cybersecurity; How to digitally transform Uganda’s critical infrastructure

Incredible strides have been made in constructing critical infrastructure that delivers essential services and economic…

GEORGE MUHIMBISE: The alarming school dropout rates should be addressed urgently!

Last week, the Uganda National Examinations Board released PLE results for the year 2022 where…