As employment prospects in Uganda get delayed over lack of practicability, innovation and creativity, some employment agencies and foreign countries like Saudi Arabia have decided to use it as an opportunity to offer Ugandans fake jobs. These job opportunities have not just attracted hopeless Ugandans, but also certified university graduates. Unemployment is a serious challenge […]
“Uganda’s development will grow faster if today’s graduates embrace impact entrepreneurial skills that have a lasting benefit on transforming society through wealth creation,” Professor John Maviri, the vice chancellor of Uganda Martyrs University says. Impact entrepreneurship implies that individuals create sustainable businesses while addressing the needs of society. Maviiri says it is through impact entrepreneurs […]
It is a year after I graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree Course in Law and just for the record, I don’t have a job, I don’t have a car, I don’t have a house and guess what? Oh yes, you guessed right, I don’t have a girl friend. Do I have an excuse? Of Course, […]
Nearly all rich and powerful people are not notably talented, educated, charming or good-looking. They become rich and powerful by wanting to be rich and powerful, a quotation from the world’s best-selling books by Paul Arden reads. This quote best describes one of our own highly respected entrepreneur whose trustworthiness and work ethics have made […]
There was drama at the Ugandan Parliament last week when some youths pulled out two piglets that were painted in yellow and dropped them at the Parliamentary House while demonstrating against alleged massive corruption by some Members of Parliament. The two youths were arrested by Parliamentary security and detained. The were dressed in T-Shirts with […]
Depending on where you live, university graduation season is approaching — or already in full swing. Those who have already nabbed job offers will greet graduation day with joy. But many others, who have not nailed down a job yet, face it with dread. In 2013, there were 74.5m unemployed young people aged 15 to […]
A graduate of Makerere University , Tugume, frustrated by the huge number of youth unemployment has embarked on a single-handed demonstration. The 24 year old Innocent Tugume has decided to ride a bicycle for 380KM from Mitooma District in Western Uganda to Kampala to demonstrate his dissatisfaction over the high unemployment rate among the youths […]
When Sam joined university, he had three key things in mind after his graduation; getting a job, owning a posh house and a car. With these at hand, Sam thought the rest like marrying a beautiful lady and looking after his parents would be automatic but to his surprise, five years elapsed minus him securing […]