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Jay Jay Okocha was so good, Eintracht Frankfurt fans still sing his name! This, a 1993 goal against Oliver Kahn, the great Oliver Kahn!, that Kahn still says made him dizzy.
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These lovely souls just needed an extra night of sleep to wake up and dream of a new, better life.
It is extremely disturbing seeing their bludgeoned bodies piled in indignity.
May their families find comfort. Their memories will keep a blessing.
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My daughter is a bit angry that I never got her a present on my birthday!
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When TWED Heights Development went to the market to build the TWED Heights Hilton, Nakasero, they had two immediate problems; they needed Class 45 concrete and needed a 90-meter tall crane. The C45 concrete was quoted at $450 per cubic meter. The crane would go for $15k a month!
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The HR with her Passo has already delivered the kids to Naalya Hillside, prepared Katogo with Ntula for her bank manager hubby, left the maid with instructions for supper of steamed matooke, roast meat & ground nut paste. She has finished her morning devotional. You will see.
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-Basically, almost first at anything related to space apart from the moon walk stuff.
-Aerial refueling.
-LED (Light-emitting diode) bulb
-The modern blood bank
-Paratrooping
-1st grid connected nuclear power plant at Obinsk.
-The 1st earth orbiting satellite.
-3D holography
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They say all problems in Gabon started with these exchanges! 🤣😉
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Sparkles Salon pays UGX 100 million in rent per month! So, they owe landlords UGX 400 million! There must be serious money in this industry.
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"Macron, the Africans are abandoning their continent because of you. The solution is to not transfer Africans to Europe, but to liberate Africa from some Europeans"
Giorgia Meloni, Prime Minister of Italy.
This is an interesting time in history.
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People surprised when I tell them I got the damn covid-19 and (have) survived. Yes. It is/was extremely painful. The first 3-5 days were hell. I didn't know I had that many ancestors, if my dreams/hallucinations are anything to go by.
What did I do/use?
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ON CEMENT PRICES IN UGANDA
A 50kg bag is going for $11.11 (UGX 40,000). Kenyans buy theirs at an average of $6. Tanzanians at $6. Egyptians at 54EGP or $2.9!
As always, we turn to
@ApolloBuregyeya
for an explanation. Suffice to say, it may be better to import cement from Egypt.
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The boys at SUMMA are cooking. They avoided the elliptical design for the Dakar and BK Arenas and are going for an interesting look, here. The Lugogo Arena will be a marvel.
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Just a lil sugar cane and you can go on your merry way. Typical traffic cop character.
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Don't dare open it without lighting.
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The Kigali Arena, all 10,000 square meters of it, took 8 (eight) months to construct. 19th Jan 2019 to 9th August 2019.
It is the courage to use SUMMA, a Turkish construction firm, that is telling, more than the fact that the RWANDANS are efficient. SUMMA's record is epic!
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The problem with most low IQ middle Africa countries, is we have leaders who prioritize buying very expensive vehicles for one septuagenerian INSTEAD of a school bus for 120 kids.
Imagine, we were launching 6 new school buses for the Kinawataka education district, yesterday!
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"All economic development is local. All politics is local."
The Pokopoko Bus Service has acquired a new bus. As usual, some of the WhatsApp groups in Bwera and Kasese shared the photo. The old man who owns the bus company started by selling safety pins. His original shop still
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We have not tweeted. Okay. We have not tweeted everything. It was a long journey. The emotions were so raw. Few communities have suffered as much as these resilient, hardworking men and women. We didn't know how to respond. Really. They appreciated. Everyone of you.
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Maybe, it wouldn't be such a bad thing if they named the LUGOGO ARENA, the Joshua Cheptegei Olympic Arena, instead.
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Societies that never leave anything to chance will always rule the world.
👀💧 Pickford’s water bottle for the shootout… ‘Akanji, dive left’.
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2025 is 5 months away.
A prototype of the
@SGR_Uganda
"Modern and efficient railway transport systems in Uganda by 2025"
#ManifestoWeek2018
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UGANDA's first railway wasn't the Malaba to Jinja line. It was the Port Bell-Kalerewe-Matugga-Bombo line.
It was named ka-railway (little railway) by the locals (which morphed into KALERWE for us to pronounce more easily).
So, now, you have the etymology of KALERWE.
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The toughest two things on God's Earth: Prying open those fingers and convincing an African leader to handover office.
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This guy's official car is parked at 5pm at the Auditor General's office. He comes from home with his own private ride + goes back the same way.Last we checked, it was a beatdown Pajero that is over 15 years old. He is 'weird' in this era where people abuse such offices.
The Auditor General, John Muwanga is this morning expected handover the annual audit report for Financial Year ending June 2023, in which he will detail how Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) spent the money that was allocated to them in FY2022/23.
Parliament Watch will
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So, Spyda MC knows the language of the angels, too, Lusoga? Nice!
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Kampala tech bro aesthetic. Mushrooming along Entebbe road, Kyanja, parts of Upper Konge.
Upper Konge is so nice they don't want anyone to know they exist.
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Will never regret the hours we spent watching these kids last we were in Zanzibar! Great advertising for
#UgandaAt60
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By Apollo Buregyeya, PhD
A building in Kisenyi, Kampala City, collapsed today. Many are still trapped in the rubble and mostly dead. While its still too early to establish the cause of the collapse, I can still offer my predictions. I teach Construction Technology at...
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The lone petrol station, Moka - on the left as you go to Masaka, and on the right as you come back to what we call Kampala - is like an anomaly. There's no hinterland to really support it. Yet, it is perhaps a genius that thought of its location. It is 20 Kms away from or towards
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The patient believers that fellowship
@worship_harvest
have huge ambitions. When they started construction on this headquarters building in 2011, on a roughly 2 acre piece of land (they have since acquired most of the place), it would be easy to dismiss them as romantic dreamers.
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"An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband."
Booth Tarkington.
5 years in marriage. Not easy. Definitely, worth it.
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22%. 22 out of every 100 Ugandans (about 45 million souls and the 30th largest population on Earth) is aged 35 years and above.
To turn 35, in such a country, therefore, is interesting. You are in the minority, and a bridge between the decision makers and those impacted or
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I remember the palpable optimism of the mid 2010s in Uganda. I mean, Mbarara had a Nakumatt. Uchumi, was going to open a branch that side.
Vision Group had glossy magazines! They would launch a glossy magazine, every week, if they were not buying a radio station or running
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The real beef is in what basket of goods/commodities Kes 1m can get you v UGX 25m.
I just want to remind ya'll 1million Kenyan shillings is equal to UGX 25 million
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You reach Gulu city and realise that most Mayors in Central, South Western and Eastern Uganda should be in jail.
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@Rita_Arinaitwe
This is howa significant number of married couples communicate! 🙈😃Plus, 'you promised to buy abcd at Carrefour. Don't forget and say there's a lot of jam'.
Also, 'the kasasiro collection guys called. That you didn't pay them last time as you promised'.
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Now, Kampala women understand why young lawyers regularly ghost them. They haven't gotten their paper and pens in payment, which they sell to stationery shops to make money.
After Friday evening, no Wi-Fi to communicate.
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Unlike most people, I rate Balaam Barugahara highly. A man who has built a multi-million dollar cross border business, made losses in billions of UGX, built himself up from numerous shortfalls + has a keen sense of playfulness when it is needed is exactly the one fit for that job
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My mom and late dad invested a lot of money (according to them and us) in a primary school. It is two years making no money & in the morning, she called, despondent. She says she lived through Amin's regime, and this is the worst she has ever felt. Economically, and otherwise.
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"I think the Hon. Peter Ogwang and NCS hate Netball with passion, it’s ok to hate me but not these girls.” Babirye added.
This lady has put up a brave fight. Made of stern stuff.
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Pan Africanist, but can't allow your daughter bring a man from another tribe to have Christmas in your home. Moron.
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The Tanzanians are connecting the 2115MW (2 GW) Julius Nyerere HP dam's energy to the national grid. The approx $3 billion facility was 100% funded by Tanzanian taxpayers! Built over a period of only 4 years! Construction started in 2019. Each MW comes in at approx $2m only!
Work begins to connect Nyerere dam to national grid
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AFCON 2027: The drone shots of Mandela National Stadium, Namboole will be wild. The garbage heaps, rowdy traffic, dark roads around, then the mound of potatoes and banana groves on Hoima. It will be the first true AFCON courtesy of +256.
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Happy birthday celebration, Di, my friend and love.
To more years of a journey that becomes pleasanter and pleasanter.
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You can't be using/have used the Kiwatule-Najjeera-Bulindo road the past 5 years and believe Uganda will become a $500 billion economy in the next 16 years. There are indicators of seriousness in countries that achieve these things even when they start from a low base.
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The Turkish companies are outdoing themselves. This 50,000 seater Olympic Stadium at Diamniadio, Senegal was built by Turkish company, SUMMA (you may recall our thread on SUMMA). In 2 years, the €238m stadium is complete. Broke ground: 20 Feb 2020
Opening: 22 Feb 2022
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The landside expansion to the Arrivals AND Departures was constructed by SEYANI BROS. UPDF Engineers Brigade came to FINIS (if we are to use the word). The 'real' 20,000 square meters new Passenger Terminal Building is STILL under construction by CCCC.
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Those who still have doubt in the UPDF Engineering Brigade should know that the Entebbe airport Passenger terminal was also constructed by our Engineers in
@MODVA_UPDF
.
I want to thank our engineers for having delivered this work in the shortest period. It took them 20 months
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The monument at the Equator as it crosses Uganda at the starting point of the
@RwenzoriMarathn
, the most beautiful marathon route in Africa rinhed by the Rwenzori mountains, Lakes Edward, Kikorongo, and George and Queen Elizabeth National Park. It is certified by
@WorldAthletics
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Bambi, uncle
@kizzabesigye1
is now fully captured! 🤣😁 I don't think he can complain considering the beauty and brains of the captor.
He was even forced to dance!
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Wait! Did someone say that Kampala depends on evaporation for its drainage?
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There are countries where that carpet would be stolen.
The jogging track in Kigali is coming out super nicely. Impressive how the city is promoting healthy living through night marathons, Car free days and now dedicated tracks 👌💪
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The Hon. Robert Ssentamu Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine shall be 43 in 2026. 48 in 2031. Only 53 in 2036. And a grand old fellow of 58 in 2041 (after Vision 2040). He has a very realistic chance of one day leading the country in whatever form we shall have left.
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You're used to East Africans who build a footbridge and think they have discovered anti-matter or proved something in particle physics.
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Kampala is only 196 square kilometers in size. It's Metro is over 1,000 square kilometers. Of KAMPALA'S 2,110KM of road, only about 600km are paved. Of that which is paved, about ½ look like this. An international space that looks like this reflects either intentional neglect or
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In 2013, Faisal Mukasa paid me UGX 1M per month when he hired me (it was good money considering our economy at the time). I barely had 3 or 4 suits. He also ensured we had an endless supply (at least it seemed so at the time) of fine teas, coffees and a great ambience at a
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Kenya. That man will undo decades of your progress.
Unconfirmed report of Alfred Keter being abducted. If this is true, then this Govt is a bad faith actor, and I don't think it should be trusted.
#RutoMustGo
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To imagine that you can kill between 60 to 100 children (most were kids between 14 to 30) of any area or polity within 3 weeks of a poll & expect love back from the same is gross understatement of how out of depth with reality one is.
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No serious national stadium. An indoor arena with dysfunctional toilets. An airport that's not it. Crumbling roads. A city that's not. Disease announcing media year in and out. Best public transport is an expensive two wheeler that kills over 50 a day. Can't mention the country.
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Shouting pan Africanism when you can't do shit about drainage in the capital city of your country is really wild.
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That 19 page letter about 'Mr Richard'! One of the accusations is that he is conservative with WORKERS' money, b'se he is not releasing it for strategic projects (read political projects). That's exactly the guy one would want to run a provident fund in semi-dysfunctional set-up
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Strange to see people who marry cousins based solely on the fact that there are no suitable tribes outside their caste in Africa, posture as pan-Africanists. Your daughter can't get married to a worthy Ik man, but you love Zulus more than your neighbors due to pan-Africanism?
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You only realize you have suffered mentally when you live in a Boda Boda free city and your friends ask why you are always looking behind you as you walk.
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The Kamwokya Community Center, Kampala, Uganda. Excellently curated.
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All this talk of tribe this or that is not, in my view unlikely to diminish in the medium term. The economy is battered, at least in terms of disposable incomes.
For all talk of tribalism, the Baganda people are the least ethno-territotialist of all.
It is an interesting
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Interesting to see Khartoum, Sudan in one of those documents being handed over. Perhaps, that's why the other guys had to leave the two Generals alone.
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Kikuubo crying? Where one can be kicked on the throat and maimed for life and the shopkeepers nonchalantly look on? Miss me with that China Town must go stuff. Let them (China Town) expand to every suburb, instead. Everyone will find their niche. Kikuubo can cater to the people
I had thought the real impact of China Town might be felt in 5 years time.
I was wrong, in 6 months Many traders will be real crying.
This thing is going to be insane.
Businesses downtown will close.
Loans repayments will fail and properties attached.
We will cry.
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People generally do not know how good they have it in Kenya relative to most African countries. If the Kenyans really WANTED to and their thieving elite didn't steal ⅔ of everything, they would be one of Africa's greatest stories. A non oil producing country that works.
This is not a serious question bro. When Kenya is talking, the whole of West Africa should kneel down and face the wall. There's no comparison.
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Have been requested by the Kyanduli Goat and Duck Breeders Association SACCO to gift a goat to whoever is responsible for these beautiful neoclassical architecture government owned buildings.
Frame 1 & 2: Law School
@MakerereLaw
Frame 3: Masaka offices of
@URAuganda
📷 online
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That they were brilliant has never been in doubt. But to justify buying a $120,000 vehicle for a civil servant earning $300 per month WITHOUT any other benefits, is diabolical.
To control inflation in a country where basic goods and demand for them is sky high was/is inelegant.
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Fuel is still at UGX 5,000 ($1.3) per liter. It is too rich to assume those in charge, whose fuel is bought for by taxpayers, will help the taxpayers. That's why I hate, nay, despise the existence of the government fleet! If most leaders paid for fuel out of pocket...
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Private hospitals in Uganda make enough money NOT to have vein finders. This incessant pricking of patients, especially kids by nursing and other staff (in an era where excellent eye-hand coordination is in short supply), MUST STOP! Kids screaming. Adults squirming. Disability.
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Latitude 0°
Amber Restaurant at The Mestil
Cantine diVino
The Drop
Urban Chevre
Cooktoria
Caffe Roma
Pegasus, Munyonyo
Zenpresso (Ntinda guys)
Coffee At Last
Endiro (any Endiro apart from the one at Jalia City which is a drive thru)
Caramel, Quality Mall, Naalya
CJ's (not Lugogo)
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Give this Mandela National Stadium its own solar farm. Cover the parking lot in solar panels which provide shade and generate electricity. MNS can harvest up to 2MW-5MW if done well. SUMMA did it for the Diamniadio/Andoulaye Wade stadium. Would power air conditioning, all year
JUST IN: Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania will jointly host the 2027 African Cup of Nations (AFCON) under the Pamoja project, CAF has announced.
●Morocco will stage the 2025 edition.
#MonitorUpdates
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Why has the
@PoliceUg
turned a whole road into a parking lot for rotting vehicles at Central Police Station? Not only has it created an ugly gridlock, it is a health and safety hazard. Or, maybe, some officers sleep in the vehicles? Get those vehicles a yard somewhere. Not CPS!
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Conservatively, in Frame 1, alone, we have about 112 motorcycles. At an estimated cost of UGX 5,000,000 per m/cycle, that's about UGX 560,000,000 of citizens' wealth held without it being put to productive use.
AND, that's the smallest space occupied. There are literally acres
.
@M_Kananura
"There are motor cycles parked at various police stations un claimed for, these motor cycles have no cases under inquires and have spent some time at these police stations. We thus appeal to all riders whose motor cycles are at different police stations to come
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A speed train to Adjumani, Kitgum, Busia, Jinja, Mbarara, Kisoro (or any other small county) would change the cost & pressure on land in most places. States that are not effective on delivering balance of transportation infrastructure create more problems than they solve.
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"I see the HR typing. She hasn't announced any death or wedding. It must be the delayed salary. The heart is telling her, tokikola. Togeza...
15 minutes later:
All payments halted till 3rd January.
When we got to her office, she had left. People risk mob justice like this."
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"The current usage of the government fleet has been vulgarized. It is ridiculous and wasteful to give officers living within Kampala fuel guzzlers above 3000cc costing the same as a small constituency’s hospital (over $100,000 - Toyota VX)."
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Kiggundu v Diamond Trust Bank (U) Ltd & Another: Executive and Legislative lethargy punished or Judicial aloofness in overdrive? WARNING; VERY LONG THREAD
The Privatization Unit(PU) had just hired a legal wizard. It is rare to get a 1st Class degree in law from the School of Law
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Recall being asked why I was watching this for the 37th time during lockdown. Wives hated this girl!
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Aura for Aura. We run these hills.
@RwenzoriMarathn
has been super fun. Excellent weather. Great running surfaces.
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BTW, Prof.
@baryamureeba
was doing this in the first decade of the 2000s. When we graduated in Jan 2012, we even had our certificates, months ahead of the ceremony. We regressed and are now celebrating basics.
We have kept our promise and started issuing transcripts to our graduands before the graduation ceremonies that commence on 29th January 2024. I thank the Academic Registrar and his team for a job well done.
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In which country in the world do we have 2-star generals having, in cash, some $29 million (UGX 111.6 billion) lying around somewhere? Even some ministries or agencies don't receive that much from the
@mofpedU
, but some guy just bought a whole village with that!
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238. That's the number of Arcades in this city. Usually, 7 to12 level buildings, Arcades have revolutionized the retail experience for Ugandans. But, Joel seems to have an issue with the fact that they seem to be retail outposts for Chinese & Indian & Turkish manufacturers. 1/n
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Good decision! To be punished for doing good, because everyone fears one real estate tycoon and their influence, is nefarious. Geraldine Ssali, imho, deserves a medal for refurbishing that moribund Farmers House instead of paying rent at the over glorified Kingdom Kampala.
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The way God is mentioned in this country, we shouldn't be having this level of malevolent corruption.
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