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His radiance is hard to miss. Bubbly and so full of life, a young man with dreams the size of a truck. Though Somali by descent, he hasn’t let borders confine his pursuit for knowledge. He has decided to transcend boundaries.
This insatiable desire to build personal competence has landed him in Mukono and he is upbeat. “Uganda is an organized country, the education system in Uganda is well-developed, and I believed it would provide me with the right skills and knowledge,” he tells me as he smiles.
“Why did Musazi concede power?”
Uganda Christian University (UCU) is mourning the tragic loss of two of its students, Lillian Kampi and Joanne Mirana Wanyana, whose untimely deaths in early September have left the university community in shock and grief. Kampi, a second-year Bachelor of Nursing Science student, was found dead in her hostel room on September 9, while Wanyana, a second-year Bachelor of Science in Data Science Analytics student, passed away in a hospital just five days later on September 14. The exact cause of Kampi’s death remains unknown, as the post-mortem report has not yet been released.
The Uganda Christian University (UCU) silver jubilee public lecture was delivered by two eminent men who surprised the audience by saying they initially did not want to work for the institution.
“Our law students are participating in the John H. Jackson Moot Court competition in Geneva. They are among the four teams representing Africa after defeating 28 universities in Africa.” That was a tweet posted by the Uganda Christian University (UCU) Twitter handle on June 25, 2020.
As a child, Aiko Olwit often traveled with her father to their upcountry home in Lira district, northern Uganda. Each time she made the trip, Olwit says she would look with empathy at the kind of life most of the people there led. Some were unable to have more than one meal a day. Others lacked decent clothing; it was not unusual to see people dressed in tattered clothes.
People always said that to get an opportunity, you need to have connections, but I have walked through doors without knowing anyone and I have come out victorious.” “By sheer will, determination, focus, and remaining steadfast, all of us have a chance to succeed,” said Cynthia Mpanga, the Head of Corporate Affairs at Standard Chartered ” Bank, during the general assembly.
The school of education has registered the highest number of first-class degrees in the second part of the 23 graduations that took place at Uganda Christian University (UCU) on October 28. This includes the best student and the highest number of first-class degrees.
On September 10, Catherine Alowo received a call at 9:40am from Sanyu FM’s Roger Mugisha, asking her to go for an interview at 10:30am. She wondered how she would make it to Kampala from Mukono before that time.
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