Author: The Standard Editor

Love. Service. Prayer. Hard work. These four are virtues that Ugandan parents Gideon and Charity Rutaremwa instilled in their children, with the hope that they would become useful citizens later in life. In addition to drumming up those virtues, the children say they further learned a lot more, just by observing how their parents conducted themselves.

From the electrifying chants echoing through packed stadiums “especially in the knockout stages” to the mind-bending skill on display, AFCON 2023 is a footballing fiesta unmatched. 

In the same breath, UCU Canons’ Jimmy Otim faced a major setback last season as he suffered a nasty injury during the quarterfinals last year as they took on D-Mark Power.

Once Uganda Christian University (UCU) student Elotu Mercy set foot in the Netherlands, one of the first things she did was locate a church where she could pray during her five-month stay in the European country. She got the church — Vineyard Church — as well as acquaintances who would become instrumental in her social and spiritual life in the new country. 

The UCU Lady Canons secured an impressive 91-50 win against the YMCA Lady Hamstars in the National Basketball League at Lugogo Arena.

Only Jerry Samson Kayanja and Marvin Jesse Okurut managed to score a double figure, dropping 10 points each.

It’s flat and cold,” Julia recalled of her five-month international study experience at Hanze University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands in 2023. Talking in January 2024 while getting a hair weave within the Uganda Christian University (UCU) main campus in Mukono, she added that in comparison, “Uganda has hills” with warm-to-hot days.

With Threads, a text-based social media network that aims to unseat Twitter as the current leader in online micro-conversations, Meta made a splash half a year ago.

Mugisha and her companions at UCU made a pledge during their undergraduate years to keep their virginity until marriage, in an era when society conventions frequently question conventional beliefs. They happily upheld this pledge. Florence, the lone daughter of six brothers, earned a bachelor’s degree in science in computer technology from UCU in 2013.

“I am sure it will be an entertaining game. I know every team that has come this far has a dream to play the last game of the tournament,” he noted.