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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
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.
Behind the quiet walls of student hostels and university corridors, a silent reproductive health crisis is brewing. What is meant to be an emergency solution, the morning-after pill, is increasingly being misused as a routine contraceptive among university students.
After hearing horrendous stories and experiences of friends who had faced sexual harassment, in February 2022, Brian Muhumuza birthed an organisation that he hoped would make lives of individuals like them better. In Share Joy International, a non-governmental organization, Muhumuza, the organization’s Executive Director, believed he had a tool to help confront such social injustices.
Government sponsorship is a big blessing in the family for many parents in Uganda because of the associated benefits, but it was different for Shamirah Kitimbo.
Uganda Christian University (UCU) has come out of the Covid pandemic and lockdown with its first School of Medicine (SoM) graduates, a new building on the Mukono campus and recognition of faculty elevated to high-level leadership positions, among others.
This is a month when our children will sit for end-of-term exams in primary and secondary schools. This is also happening in some higher learning institutions that are doing their end-of-semester examinations this month.
In September 2017, instead of Okia applying for a medical course, he instead applied for the law and excelled well in his pre-entry; little of his classmates knew his secret that he had a science background.
Dr. Edward Kanyesigye (informally known as D. Ned) is a triumphant man. The founding dean of Uganda Christian University’s (UCU) School of Medicine (SoM) will this July celebrate the graduation of his pioneer students. Getting the SOM up and running was a lifetime achievement, and it gives him great joy to see his first students graduate.
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