Author: The Standard Editor

This is the digital news site of the Uganda Christian University community newspaper, "The Standard". The Standard newspaper was established in May 2007 under, formerly Department, but now School of Journalism, Media & Communication.

As Uganda Christian University (UCU) gears up for the highly blistering five-day Association of Ugandan University Sports (AUUS) games tournament, preparations continue in terms of sport facility renovations and redevelopment. 

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UCU lost three promising young women to separate road accidents. The deceased include Laurine Murungi and Britney Sarah Treasure who perished in an accident along Bweyogerere. Eye witnesses say a taxi that was trying to overtake lost control and knocked a boda which the two girls were on. Both the girls and the boda rider perished. A third student, Maria Angella Namirembe, was involved in an accident near Angels Nest Primary School

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Embrace cost sharing; it will also enable you to manage and live within your finances. Imagine there are two students, Sandra and Sarah, who study BBA. The two decide to rent a room together. They each pay half the fee to meet the cost.

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Former students of Uganda Christian University (UCU) mobilised and renovated the home of Mr. Ben Bella Illakut, in his ancestral village of Komolo, Aka Dot, Mukongoro Sub-county in Kumi District. Mr Illakut was a founding member of the Department of Mass Communication.

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While the Iron Curtain speech Winston Churchill gave in 1946, in Missouri, USA was specifically about the geopolitical situation in post-World War II Europe, its themes of political influence, control, and the suppression of democracy can be paralleled to corruption situations in other parts of the globe, including Uganda.

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“There was a ruling that was passed, and it’s on the basis of that ruling that we’re having this occasion today,” Mugawe said.

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