If all goes according to plan, global household consumer goods manufacturer Procter and Gamble (P&G) will have given 3.2 million sanitary towels in two years to 500,000 poor girls in 15,000 schools in Kenya.
Akwaya has almost become a hell, dead end or nightmare to those who have gone there. It is cut off from the rest of the country by road; it has no electricity, no TV or radio signals, no telephone network.
The case of Ms Namusoga (not real name for respect of the girl's privacy), the 13-year-old disabled girl who gave birth last week in Iganga after being defiled by an unknown pedophile has once again brought to the fore the
THE youth and all Ugandans should engage in activities that generate wealth, President Yoweri Museveni has urged. The President urged the youth to work hard and cautioned them against involvement in criminal acts.
Nu Metro and Standard Bank have joined up with communications company Orbes Media to develop and screen an informative and entertaining movie outlining careers, education, training, life skills, loans and bursaries in South Africa, for learners in grades 9 -
Director of vocation, Society Missionary for Africa (SMA), Rev. Fr. Patrick Kwis, yesterday advised youths to shun pressure and have personal conviction before marriage.
Police are investigating this private home, where the three dead babies were found. A woman has been taken into custody in Germany after the bodies of three newborn babies were found in a freezer in the basement of a private
The 12 th edition of the "Comar d'or" which concluded on April 25, 2008 with the award giving ceremony enhanced by the presence of the Tunisian singer and musician Zied Gharsa, has revealed a fine crop of writers whose novels
IN March 2007 22-year-old David Lutalo walked into Mozart Studio, Bakuli and came out with Kapapaala, a graphic description of that one part of the woman's body that we have admired for centuries: their bum!
Competition to bring in high profile international performing artistes has turned into a cat and rat fight among the major companies in Uganda. However, a mobile communication firm, Celtel, has just been hit hard in the game.
IS it just me or is Scar trying too hard? Then again, I could be wrong, there's probably an Idols handbook some place that says that the competition cannot work unless one of the judges is a certified pain in
AFTER last Sunday's episode of Apprentice Africa, you can only wonder what is wrong with the Kenyans. If you hadn't yet known, Eddie Mbugua was fired and, like the other Kenyan martyrs, Joyce Mbaya and Anthony Migui, it was for
Sibusiso Leope, better known as DJ Sbu, is officially back on the YFM airwaves - this after speculation, denials and even a podcast stating that DJ Sbu will not be joining YFM or any radio station but was exploring other
Popular 94.5 Kfm breakfast show host Nic Marais will be leaving the station at the end of June 2008. Marais, a bachelor's graduate of the University of Cape Town (UCT), plans to further his studies at a top US law
In a hotly contested competition, young creatives from TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris Johannesburg, Kursten Meyer and Verona Singh, recently won the South African Young Lions Award in the lead up to the Cannes Festival 2008.
Jane Kasumba is The Public Relations Communications Manager at UBC and also a sports analyst on UBC Television. She analyses and loves football though she has a degree in Political Science, Law and a major in Communication. At the recently
ANYONE remember Richard Kawesa's role during the auditions for another reality TV show in February? As a "mentor judge", Kawesa was tasked with "keeping the judges on their toes if I feel that they are either too tough or too
CELTEL Uganda is to incur almost double the cost of the Akon concert that has been postponed. The concert, which was slated for last Friday at the Lugogo Cricket Oval, has been postponed to May 9 because the Senegalese-American musician
