By Joan Akello Daisy Hope Ejang, 22 -year old artiste who represented Uganda in the 2013 Tusker Project Fame, speaks Joan Akello about her life before and after the regional competition. So what else do you consider as your greatest achievement? I have not yet achieved but there is progress …
Read More »Influence of the global gay lobby
By Kintu Nyago Western governments oblivious to the fact that it’s not only gays who have human rights to protect The pressure exerted on Uganda, by the US and some European countries, after President Yoweri Museveni signed into law the now defunct Anti-Homosexual Bill into law, was not premised, genuinely …
Read More »How to stop Ebola – and next outbreak
By Jim Yong Kim and Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma Building functioning, affordable public care systems can prevent, detect, and respond to epidemics For only the third time in its 66-year history, the World Health Organisation has declared a global public health emergency. This time it is for the Ebola outbreak in …
Read More »Giving NAADS to army
By Jenkins Kiwanuka In Sri Lanka, soldiers are fixing roads and bridges, remodelling cities, and selling vegetables President Museveni’s decision to give the controversial National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAADS) to his former bush war veterans who, he claims, are living under abject poverty reminds me of an article I wrote …
Read More »Baby rhino excites Uganda’s sanctuary
By Ronald Musoke Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary revels in successful breeding programme Bella and her three-month old daughter Luna look unbothered by the scores of curious eyes and whispers of human beings in their vicinity. Luna particularly cares less. She keeps climbing up and down her mother’s massive greyish body …
Read More »Overweight can give you cancer
By Flavia Nassaka Experts say there would be 12,000 fewer cancer cases globally if people were normal weight Ugandans need to change their social attitudes that make being overweight seem harmless, if not even attractive. Dr. James Kafeero, an expert on tumors at the Uganda Cancer Institute in Kampala says …
Read More »Being submissive is no crime
By Joan Akello Dr. Sabrina Bakeera- Kitaka speaks to Joan Akello about children and globe-trotting You wanted to be a newscaster, judge, an air hostess but you became a doctor! But I think I am all of them, some people call me a celebrity and globe-trotting doctor and, I am …
Read More »You need more than one laboratory test, some times
By Nicole Namubiru Doctors explain why faulty results are more common than you think Laura and Martin wanted to settle down together. They decided to do the necessary medical tests. That is when bad news struck; Laura was told she is HIV positive. But then she did another test and …
Read More »Culture of complaints and positive change
By Peter Nyanzi In most developed countries, the fear of costly complaints forces businesses to be creative When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.” – John Milton Some time back, a friend posted …
Read More »ID project: slow start, late rush
By Flavia Nassaka 14.9 million Ugandans registered of the targeted 18 million Though Members of Parliament pushed for the extension of the deadline for the National Identification Mass Registration exercise at parish level, this has not been successful as Gen. Aronda Nyakairima, Minister for Internal Affairs, officially closed the exercise …
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