Muniini K. Mulera

Shaka Ssali: The Kabaare Kid who made good very good (Part 2)

By Muniini K. MuleraApril 8, 20252 comments

#Shaka #Ssali #Mushakamba #Kabaare #Kabale #Albaby #UCLA #Suruma #Kakumba #Lutaakome #Kayiira #Korvin #Butobere #Kigezi #Kigyezi #Wamala

Photo: University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) campus Once he had slept off the jetlag after arriving in New York City on July 4, 1976, Mike Ssali found people who were willing to believe in him. Besides Dr. Ezra Suruma, an early contact was Frederick W. Kakumba, a Ugandan ...

Museveni should halt Kigyezi wetlands evictions

By Muniini K. MuleraJune 24, 20240 comments

#Wetlands #Swamps #Kigezi #Kigyezi #Museveni #Uganda #Kiruruma

Photo: Remnant of the swamp at Maziba Hydroelectric Falls, Ndorwa, Kigyezi. ********** The presidential directive to evict Ugandan citizens from wetlands is a measure that invites careful reflection and resolution. It invites diehard environmentalists like me to set our emotions ...

Kihanga Secondary School’s timely embrace of advanced ICT literacy

By Muniini K. MuleraAugust 21, 20230 comments

#Kihanga #ICT #Twesigomwe #Rukundo #Kakuru #Gensi #Rutebarika #Kwarisiima #Kyerere #Baryantuma #Munono #Akanjuna

It is one thing to make a promise, and quite another to fulfil it. Central to the operations of the Diaspora International Community of Banyakigezi (ICOB) is delivery on its promises with transparency and accountability. ICOB’s recent commitment to donate up to USD 30,000 (about ...

Dr. Edith Nakku-Joloba: an excellent choice as President of UMA

By Muniini K. MuleraDecember 19, 20220 comments

#Edith #NakkuJoloba #UMA #Uganda #Medical #Association #Makerere #Mulago

The election of Dr. Edith Nakku-Joloba on Sunday December 18 as the new president of Uganda Medical Association (UMA) is excellent news. It restores the 58-year-old organization to a path its founders and sustainers envisaged, namely, a robust organization that promotes and maintains ...

Doctors’ apathy and Uganda Medical Association’s problems

By Muniini K. MuleraDecember 12, 20220 comments

#Uganda #Medical #Association #Ruskin #Cook #Odonga #Kasirye #Senbeguya #Semambo #Mwesigye #Mungherera #KibukaMusoke #Billington #UMA #BMA #Oleo

Photo: Prof. Alexander Mwa Odonga MB ChB, FRCS, LMS (EA), Dip. Med. (EA), President of the BMA (Uganda Branch) 1964, President of the Association of Surgeons of East Africa 1971-1972, Dean of Makerere Medical School, 1975-1977. ********************* Dr. Samuel Odongo Oledo, who knelt ...

Dr. Samuel Oledo has disqualified himself from leadership of Uganda’s doctors

By Muniini K. MuleraDecember 5, 20220 comments

#Uganda #Medical #Association #UMA #Oledo

The current president of the Uganda Medical Association (UMA) has brought great shame and embarrassment to the profession of medicine. While speaking at the Patriotism for Youth and Investment Symposium at Kololo Independence Grounds on Saturday December 3, Dr. Samuel Odongo Oledo, ...

Gayaza High School deserves our financial support

By Muniini K. MuleraNovember 7, 20220 comments

#Gayaza #Masembe #Mpanga #Bagaaya #Nsibirwa #Kalema #Kasule #Obote #Mugwanya #Kadama #Kavuma

(Some of the Gayaza girls at the gathering in Kampala on November 5, 2022. Left - right: Jane Nannono Kavuma Kayonga [red top], Barbara Kibaya Kiwanuka, Florence Isabirye Muranga [standing], Rowena Sempa Ndugga, Christina Mugwanya Kadama, and Jennifer Wanyoto Musiime.) ------------------------- The ...

All smiles because of good news from Uganda and South Africa

By Muniini K. MuleraAugust 9, 20210 comments

#Aspen #Covid19 #Uganda #Chemutai #Cheptegei #Zuma #Mkhize #Akii #Bua #Ssali #Ndanguza #Kigezi

Last week was a great one for Africa. The good news from South Africa and Japan put a bounce in one’s step and a smile on one’s face. On July 26, South Africa’s Aspen Holdings, a global pharmaceutical company, announced the release of the first supplies of the Johnson ...

Joyful childhood memories of Christmas - By Dr. Jane Nannono

By Muniini K. MuleraDecember 27, 20180 comments

#Kavuma #Christmas #Nannono

Nothing awakens the child in me as the festive season. I only need to hear Silent Night or Joy To The Worldand the small girl in me lights up and is instantly transported back to her childhood. This is one place where I had felt loved, cared for therefore ...

Privileged Ugandan woman speaks from the heart ----- By Jane Nannono

By Muniini K. MuleraMarch 16, 20170 comments

#Women #Womens #rights #human #rights #Kavuma #Nannono

The earliest Women’s day was first observed in New York in February 1909. On March 8th 1917 a demonstration of women working in the textile factories in the then Russian Empire, sparked off the Russian Revolution. A week later, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicated and the women ...