Tag: daily monitor commentary

The word health is used in so many contexts, mostly taken for granted, and it’s only when sickness knocks on the door that we understand the true blessings of health ...

Do you remember the day you climbed a hill and when you finally reached the top you completely forgot the pain of scaling the heights to the hilltop because of ...

Almost every morning one mother wakes up at 4am to take her preteen daughter to a swim club a stone’s throw from their home in Ntinda. At first, the girl ...

Dozens of elderly clan leaders scampered to hide under a banana plantation as security personnel wrestled Uganda’s former deputy Ambassador to the US, Mr Dickson Ogwang Okul to disarm him ...

Welcome back, my conversationally challenged friends! Last week we were learning the art of striking up conversation with strangers at social gatherings. So, let’s say you are seated at your ...

In today’s column, I present a draft of a blueprint for the revival of Namasagali College in Kamuli, a school in its heyday dominated by children of the 1960s and ...

Being an innovator is tough, especially in developing countries like Uganda where tech is complex. To build solutions that improve their communities, innovators need a mix of brilliance, grit, and, ...

Ronald Kalule was a jolly, playful toddler until polio paralysed his limbs when he was only three years old.No intervention could fix his condition, doctors told his mother. And only ...

Many students are not joining vocational schools because they have never received career guidance about such studies at primary and secondary levels, an official from the Petroleum Authority of Uganda ...

Whenever you see soldiers on Uganda’s streets, you know politics is at play. Holding sway in the way we play politics is the army. They are central to the ruling ...