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By Mwebya Fred Based on a True Story It usually takes me a lot of time to come to an understanding with myself on the things I hate but end up doing them every single day. As we start 2016, I am greatly compelled to share a story that brought a lot of freedom and happiness to my life. I had always thought that I would be an engineer during the early days of my education; I then realized I somehow hated engineering as I got closer to the line where I had to make a decision.   I had always trusted my conscience that I had always been fair to my feelings and interest while choosing the things I loved. Slowly but steadily as I advanced with my education, I realized I had this leadership calling that I very much wanted to be that individual that shapes people’s decisions in society.   At that time, I practically felt like I had all that it takes to be at the center of leadership. While at Namilyango College I gave leadership a shot by becoming the Studen...

By Mind Leaders Uganda Longer tweets are coming soon to Twitter. Twitter is building a new feature that will allow users to tweet things longer than the traditional 140-character limit, and the company is targeting a launch date toward the end of Q1, according to multiple sources familiar with the company’s plans. Twitter is currently considering a 10,000 character limit, according to these sources. That’s the same character limit the company uses for its Direct Messages product, so it isn’t a complete surprise. There is no official launch date set in stone, these sources say. It’s also possible the character limit could fluctuate before it rolls out the final product, which people inside Twitter refer to as “Beyond 140.” Re/code first reported that Twitter was building a product like this back in September. A Twitter spokesperson declined to comment. Twitter is currently testing a version of the product in which tweets appear the same way they do now, displaying just 140 cha...

By Kiwewa Faisal The year 2015 has been characterized by several economic factors, but it has been majorly the low global commodity prices and high interest rates from commercial banks. When the economies in Europe are not doing well, they reduce on spending when the demand for some commodities goes down, the prices fall. Some of these commodities include exports like coffee, cotton, tea and cocoa. And other hard commodities like Petroleum, metals, etc. 2015 was thus characterized by low commodity prices. The speculators had started putting up ware houses, amenities, and businesses in the Albertine region but when the oil prices went down the activity slowed down, government has however done some licensing so some investors are likely to come in next year, and some oil has also been discovered in Kanungu.   The low oil prices would be advantageous to low developed economies    that use oil machinery by reducing the cost of production, for example if one ha...

  By Mwebya Fred   Time check, 1645 Hrs.' East African Time on Fri 27th November 2015 , His Holiness Pope Francis landed at Entebbe Airport. Being a Social Media enthusiast by nature , I immediately got onto Twitter to look up the trending topics in my area code, and guess what, #PopeInUganda was enormously and deeply making rounds on the platform. For those who may be reading this article but do not much about Pope Francis, you are in the right space because before continuing this article I want to briefly give some details of who Pope Francis is and what's unique about him. Brief Fact File: Name:   Pope Francis Calling: Pope Date of Birth: December 17, 1936 (age 78) Education: Colegio Of San José, Diocesan Seminary Of Villa Devoto Place of Birth: Buenos Aires, Argentina Full Name: Jorge Mario Bergoglio Pope Francis on March 13, 2013, when he was named the 266th pope of the Roman Catholic Church. Bergoglio, the first pope from t...

When one talks about Uganda, they cannot fail to talk about her delicious delicacies and vast culture that have truly made the statement “Pearl of Africa” a reality. Due to the fact that Uganda has witnessed stability and peace in the region, this East African land locked country is among some of the world’s finest destinations for tourists and investors. The voluminous tribes and cultures in Uganda largely contribute to the different cuisines that are served in Uganda’s restaurants.  There are many restaurants raging from African, Asian, Italian and Chinese, located in the different parts of Uganda. In Kampala there are plenty of high and low end restaurants allover preparing international cuisines and local foods like Matooke and Ground nut paste from the central region, millet, sweet potatoes with Eboo lo esudud (mixture of ground nuts and greens) from the East, Atapa with oddi from the North, to mention but a few. Do not be surprised to find some restaurants with Ind...