On Sunday September 29, 2019, Ashiraf Nsubuga, a resident of Nsibirwa hall and fourth year student pursuing a Bachelors of Medical Radiology at Makerere University committed suicide by hanging himsef on a rope. Nsubuga reportedly had debts that had accumulated to a tune of Shs18million and was supposed to pay his debtors on October 2. […]
From time memorial, history, knowledge and culture has been passed on and preserved for consumption by new generations through verbal, visual and written forms. Often the responsibility of historical information was consigned to professional historians, trusted individuals whose superior wisdom and training equipped them to remember and interpret vast stores of information for the benefit […]
Most students especially those from humble backgrounds find university life hard and challenging once they join the university and even throughout their study. Some tend to spend most of their time doing class work while others merely fail to be creative enough to start something that can earn them income at the end of the […]
Makerere university department of Journalism and Communication in conjunction with Ultimate Media Consult conducted a one week multimedia training for fourth year students majoring in Journalism. The training aimed at helping students to learn how multimedia and online platforms work, how to create, host and advertise on the web, social media management and to enable […]
Alice (not real names) aged 21 is a second-year student of Makerere University pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in arts with social sciences. She is passionate about hitting the climax and lime light as the nation’s superstar in agitating for fairness to the vulnerable children on the streets. Though she possesses such a powerful promising dream […]
Makerere university has kicked off a move to embrace modern technology in journalism training by Constructing a Multimedia resource Center. By; Sewanyana Jackson. Explorer the proposed outlook of Makerere’s Multimedia Center through this video. According to Dr. Fred Kakooza, Makerere’s Multimedia Center has been informed by a lot of considerations. Listen to Kakooza’s story behind […]
Students at the Makerere University college of Agricultural & Environmental Sciences are working towards mechanizing the backbone of Uganda, Agriculture. Pursuing Bachelors of Agricultural engineering, the students have decided to make a difference and make the nation’s farming thrive again. The innovations are intended to address problems faced by most farmers in the country like […]
Most parents in Uganda dream for their children to study from the prestigious Makerere University. The hustle for achieving this dream, however life is even much hard after getting admitted into the University. Many students at the Ivory Tower are living with stress, panic, misery and feelings of hopelessness. Joel Serwada, 25, is a third […]