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Victoria University Partners With Indian Universities To Boost Innovation Among Ugandan Students

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By Keefa NuwaherezaRuparelia Group owned Victoria University has done what no other private University in Uganda has ever done before; that is directly linking the education and training, research, innovations, inventions and other academic programs of the Indian curriculum with Uganda's. Victoria University has done this by signing Letters of Intent with 16 Universities in Gujarat, India, with which they will undertake student exchange programs,exchange lecturers, researchers, boost startups and engage in other academic projects together. Under the same arrangement students in Uganda will have several scholarships at Victoria University to go and study at Universities that have signed the letters of Intent, chief among which is Gujarat University, which is running a resear...

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Katumwa Pumps Dime In MUBS 3rd Alumni Run To Raise Tuition For Disabled Girls

Health, NEWS

By Abel Kawere City businessman David Katumwa, of Katumwa Sports Centre, together with hundreds of other people on Sunday took part in the Makerere University Business School (MUBS) 3rd Alumni Run. City businessman David Katumwa of Katumwa Sports Centre was one of the sponsors The MUBS Alumni Run is an annual marathon that spurns 5Km and 10Km respectively and this year’s Run was based on the theme ‘raising tuition for the disabled girl child’. The marathon, in which people with disabilities and children also participated, kicked off at the MUBS main Campus in Nakawa at exactly 7:00 Am and by 8:00 AM, the runners had started returning to the finishing line. Hon. Dombo hands a certificate to State Minister for Sports minister Hamson Obua The State Minister for Sports Denni...

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Museveni Frees 13 Rwandan Spies, Min Kutesa Hands Them Over To Embassy

NEWS, Politics

By Keefa Nuwahereza President Yoweri Museveni has Tuesday, February 2020 ordered the release of over 13 Rwandan nationals, who were handed over to the Rwandan Embassy in Uganda by Foreign Affairs minister Sam Kahamba Kutesa. During the handover in Kampala, Minister Kutesa told journalists that the release of the Rwandans is aimed; "to clear the way to normalise relations" and that it doesn’t mean they did not commit the crimes for which they had been arrested. The released Rwandans waiting to be transferred to Kigali Many of the released had been arrested over various charges that included espionage, illegal entry and stay into Uganda, among others. Kutesa revealed that some of those who were released are; Nturishwa Maboko, JohnBosco Abomugisha, Okigwiriza Nassis, &n...

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EC Commences Display Of Voters Registers Countrywide

NEWS, Politics

The Electoral Commission has Tuesday, February 18, 2020, started the displaying of voters registers across the country, as the nation prepares for the 2021 General Election. The revelation was made on Tuesday morning by the Commission’s Chairperson Justice Simon Mugenyi Byabakama, who called upon all Ugandans to go to their designated polling stations and check the lists, to ensure that their particulars are in the correct order. Justice Byabakama’s full statement reads thus; Commencement of Display of the National Voters’ Register and Registers for Special Interest Groups (SIGs), 19th February – 10th March 2020 In preparation for the 2020-2021 General Elections, and in accordance with Section 25 of the Electoral Commission Act (Cap 140), the Electoral Commission ha...

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‘Rwandan Musician Kizito Mihigo Was Assassinated’-Human Rights Activists

FEATURED, NEWS

By Elite Reporter Human Rights activists in Kigali have condemned what they call an assassination of popular Rwandan musician Kizito Mihigo, who allegedly committed suicide on Sunday night. A statement released by the Global Campaign for Human Rights, a Non-governmental Organisation, “condemns in the strongest terms possible the assassination of Kizito Mihigo by the Rwandan Security Services on Sunday 16th February 2020.” The human rights activists add in their statement that “We condemn the attempt by the Police to mislead the Rwandan public and international media by announcing that Kizito committed suicide in and that his body was discovered on the morning of 17th February 2020. Kizito Mihigo after being tortured Kizito was in fact killed after intense questioning and e...

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Why Rwanda Is So Obsessed With Gen. Kandiho, Col. Kaka Bagyenda

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By Elite Reporter Titus Seruga, a former Spy who was working with the Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence (CMI) before he fled into exile, has revealed why Rwanda is so obsessed with CMI boss Gen.Abel Kandiho, plus Col. Kaka Bagyenda, who heads the Internal Security Organisation (ISO). Seruga made the shocking allegations in a statement he posted on his Facebook page, which is reproduced here below, verbatim; “On 13 May 2015, a Burundian Military Godefroid Niyombare declared a coup d’état, announcing on a privately owned local radio that President “Pierre Nkurunziza has been dismissed”. President Nkurunziza was at the time in the neighboring Tanzania attending the 13th Extraordinary Summit of the East African Community Heads of State, which had been convened to discus...