Author: The Standard Editor

As October 22, 2021, approached, students who were expecting to graduate at Uganda Christian University (UCU) were busy clearing with different offices to get their names on the final graduation list. Laura Jean Murungi, a nursing student, had passed all her papers, so she assumed she would be on the list.

At 9 a.m. Monday, April 4, 2022, an email from Lilian Lyavaala popped up. It read: “I am glad to inform you that we now have office space for the Writing Center.”

The Uganda Christian University (UCU) Trinity semester has resumed. The students open their bags to pull out the bank slips and passbooks needed for registration.

Save the Mothers Department held its Reproductive Health, Maternal, Newborn, Child, and Adolescent Health conference; it was both online and physical in Nkoyoyo Hall at UCU-Mukono. 

When scholars meet, the number one item on their agenda is to critique one another’s work. A recent meeting at Uganda Christian University (UCU) was not a departure from that ritual.

State-of-the-art lecture rooms, meeting rooms for student functions and study spaces are some of what will await students of the Uganda Christian University (UCU) Kampala campus soon, following the start of the construction of the facilities early this year. The breaking of the ground for the construction of the facilities expected to cost sh2.5b (about $703,340) was done early 2022 at the campus’ new premises in Kampala.

Wednesday, February 17, 2021 started just like any other usual day in the life of a journalist for Timothy Murungi. Setting off from the New Vision offices in a company car, he was assigned to cover a story where the National Unity Platform president, Robert Kyagulanyi, was delivering an electoral petition to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC).

When the House of Bishops of Uganda’s Anglican Church voted the Rev. Michael Okwii Esakan as the second bishop of a diocese in eastern Uganda, not everyone received the news of this February 2022 event with joy.

Hasifah Nassuna made history as she became the first woman to score 100 goals in professional league history in a 3-1 victory against Tooro Queens.

The Chancellor of Uganda Christian University (UCU), the Most Rev. Dr. Stephen Kaziimba Mugalu, recently paid a visit to the university. The late March 2022 visit to UCU main campus in Mukono was part of Kaziimba’s regular pastoral visits to the university.