By Chris Mugasha and Hillary Keingana BUSHENYI, Uganda: Deputy Speaker of Parliament Thomas Tayebwa has urged students to prioritise education and avoid excessive social media use, particularly TikTok, warning that distractions can undermine their academic progress and future success. Tayebwa made the remarks while serving as the chief guest at a fundraising drive for St….
By Chris Mugasha BUSHENYI, Uganda: Shareholders of Igara Growers Tea Factory in Bushenyi District have appealed to President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni and the government to intervene and save the embattled tea-processing company from a looming auction of its mortgaged assets over an outstanding bank loan of approximately Shs5 billion. Other sources indicate that the factory…
By Hillary Keingana and Chris Mugasha SHEEMA, Uganda: Masheruka Girls Secondary School in Sheema District has appealed for financial and infrastructural support to complete the Jessica Alupo Science Block, a project aimed at strengthening science education for girls amid rising student enrolment and the demands of Uganda’s competency-based curriculum. During a visit to the school…
By Chris Mugasha BUSHENYI; The State Minister for Cooperatives Tom Aza Alero has challenged leaders and top managers of SACCOs to double their innovativeness and ‘think’ beyond providing credit/loans to members. Alero wants SACCOs to transition from their ‘current monotonous services’ of providing loans to members and move to the next levels of empowering the…
By Hilary Keingana BUSHENYI; The Bishop of West Ankole Diocese, Rt. Rev. Johnson Twinomujuni, has challenged students to embrace discipline as the foundation of academic excellence and spiritual growth. The Bishop made the call on Monday 28th september during the dedication service for Senior Four and Senior Six candidates of Ruyonza School, Bushenyi District. Bishop Twinomujuni said…
By Chris Mugasha Climate Change Is No Longer a Distant Threat The ongoing prolonged dry season should serve as a warning bell to all of us. Climate change is no longer a distant threat that only affects other countries or future generations. Its consequences are already being felt across the world—in Europe, Africa and here…
By Chris Mugasha BUSHENYI: Bushenyi District has been named among the districts with many cases of children living with different categories of disabilities. According to an official from the Equal Opportunities Commission, Bushenyi has got almost the biggest cases in the Western region. Nicholas Natuha, the Bushenyi district education officer in-charge of special needs…
By Chris Mugasha MBARARA: When Ntare School Old Boys gather in Mbarara Today (on Friday, 24 July 2026) for their Annual General Meeting and elections, they will not simply be choosing another chairman. They will be deciding who leads one of Uganda’s most influential alumni associations into its next chapter as the school celebrates 70…
By Hillary keingana BUSHENYI/SHEEMA: The festival, which attracted seven schools from across western Uganda was hosted by Kibingo Girls Secondary School on 17th August, it run under the theme Greening Schools, Environmental Protection: Our responsibility. The schools that participated included Kibingo Girls, Bweranyangi Girls, Kyeizooba Girls, MaryHill, Kibubura Girls, Kashaka Girls and Ankole SS. Bweranyangi Girls were…
By Hillary Keingana KAPCHORWA/KAMPALA: Twenty-one people, most of them pupils, were killed and 70 others injured on Wednesday evening after a school bus lost control and overturned in Chekwatit village, Kapchorwa District. The accident happened at about 7:40pm along the road in Kimawa Parish, Kawowo Sub County, according to police report from Kapchorwa Police Station…