Tag Archives: Makerere University

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has tasked Makerere University officials to explain why they submitted their payroll to the World Bank in order to access funds for the Regional Centre for Crop Improvement project. The officials had appeared before the committee led by the Acting …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Barely out of their teens and bubbling with enthusiasm, the newly admitted students to Uganda’s public universities will have to manage their excitement as their lecturers are not in any hurry to start teaching. At Makerere University, the country’s oldest institution of higher learning, the ongoing …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Makerere University management has postponed the 71st Graduation Ceremony citing different unforeseen issues. According to the university calendar issued recently, the said ceremony had been scheduled to take place on the March 18, 2021. However, the University Senate has revised date to May 7,2021. Prof. …

Kampala, Uganda | Ian Katusiime |  Anthony Kerali, a longtime professor of engineering at Makerere University, and an aristocrat who shared titbits of his life with Uganda’s political elite over the years on Twitter, has passed on. Kerali collapsed and died in his home at Prince Charles Drive in Kololo, an …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The investigations into the fire that gutted Makerere University’s iconic main building–Ivory Tower has ruled out a possibility of arson. The Ivory Tower caught fire in the wee hours of September 20, 2020, destroying the historical building valued at 15 billion Shillings and several vital …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | When fire gutted Makerere University’s Main Building last year, many people including staff, current and former students were worried that several records and documents will never be recovered as many of the old files had been kept in the building.    The areas affected by …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | The Vice Chancellor of Makerere University, Prof. Barnabas Nawangwe has said they need more funding from government to cater for research. He says despite government giving them 30 billion per financial year they would need over 100 billion.   Since 2019 government has been giving Makerere …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | The Makerere University Appointments Board has dismissed Edward Kisuze, an officer in the Academic Registrar’s Department, who was recently convicted by court for indecent assault of a female student.    Kisuze’s troubles started in 2018 when he was arrested for sexually assaulting Rachael Njoroge in …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | One in ten parents living in Kampala’s Kisenyi slum has confessed to having no hope of returning their children to school when educational institutions reopen. This is according to results of a study released by the Makerere University School of Public Health on Wednesday.   The …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Makerere University has started defending itself in a court case in which a company it contracted to supply graduation gowns is seeking to recover more than two billion shillings in arrears. In September 2020, Team Uniform Limited through its lawyers of Marlin Advocates led …