Eguru Jacob

Teach for Uganda Fellow, Education Activist, Researcher, Development practitioner and peasant farmer. NORSTIP 2025-2027 Scholar at NTNU

[NTV UGANDA @ntvuganda]

We are back...

[Jim Spire Ssentongo @SpireJim]

Intelligence Services should be a reserve of specially identified brilliant people of integrity (for dependability). But when corruption eats up a country, such services don’t survive either. They get filled by average relatives, co-ethnics, and children of friends. The outcome? Poor research skills, light lips, low analytic abilities, poor judgement, corruption, hard to discipline, fake intelligence reports, …
The country pays the price!

[Troll Football @TrollFootball]

Referee when he gave his best but Argentina still ended up losing the final

[Nahabwe Bruce @brucenahabwe1]

Watch NTV's Solomon Kaweesa unpack the life, legacy, and journey of the late Gen. Moses Ali in this captivating 11-minute biography🔥

[Agather Atuhaire @AAgather]

8 days later… oh how we have normalized enforced disappearances, people being held in dungeons and torture!!!

[Jim Spire Ssentongo @SpireJim]

Many horrific things that happen in Uganda can be seen coming. But they often have to first happen, and authorities come out as if they’re purely accidents.

~ A glaring hole on the road will be ignored, hitting cars everyday, until it causes a terrible accident, then it is immediately filled as if it has just been discovered! Meanwhile, other huge potholes nearby are still ignored. Someone is waiting for a huge budget, or a shock.

~ Predatory practices will go on in schools, exploiting parents in development fees, inflated trip fees that motivate schools to organise regular pointless trips, exaggerated material demands, unregulated school fees increments, etc. Corporal punishment will continue in schools. The concerned ministry will look on. Until someone’s sick child is caned to death! Then they start issuing statements and new half-thought directives, which they soon ignore (after the public has gone quiet).

~ Corruption by traffic officers will be officially known and tolerated. Traffic officers will let DMCs operate and endanger passengers and other road users, for as long as they can bribe. They’ll overspeed and overload. Until a terrible accident happens and, acting like they’re shocked it happened, they come out with new performative traffic operations - which they soon abandon, back to normal corruption.

~ Torture of political opponents will go on unabated. We will even find good vocabulary to justify or ignore it. The judiciary will join the torturers. Until a prominent person dies in their hands - then we will come out like visitors who never expected it to happen. We will act very shocked and concerned, including the boneheads that were cheering - all shaking their wasted heads.

Yet, when there is no major shock amidst the same things brewing everyday, we operate as if all is normal. We will, instead, persecute those who speak about the glaring signs. We will present them as the problem - defamation, agents of imperialists and homosexuals, hooligans, etc. Waiting for another moment to pretend to be shocked and sad, when disaster strikes from the very things they’re persecuted for speaking about. Many of the disasters and ‘shocks’ we witness are nothing but outcomes of what we have allowed to die in our time. It is not only government though, but also many of us individuals that have either chosen silence, benefitting from the mess, and abdicating our individual responsibilities for a better society. And, in this direction, it needs no doomsayer to tell that much worse is yet to happen. Until we choose to sober up and build a sensible country that makes all of us safe and proud. No one is safe in a broken country.

May the little innocent souls rest in peace, and may the broken parents find consolation in this very difficult time.

[Jim Spire Ssentongo @SpireJim]

Some of the people who come crying for help

[Igoye Young Professional Mentorship Institute @YPMP_Ug]

Many youth stop at “Google” when it comes to scholarships. They type it, get overwhelmed, then quit.
This Friday 20th June YPMP Session 10 will be tackling Scholarships and Global Opportunities.

This session will provide mentees with guidance on how to identify scholarships.

[Troll Football @TrollFootball]

Cabo Verde against Spain

[Equipe du Sénégal @GaindeYi]

Les Champions d’Afrique viennent d’atterrir à l’aéroport international Liberty de Newark dans le New Jersey. 🛬🇺🇸

[UBC UGANDA @ubctvuganda]

As I hand over, I will certainly miss a few things. Next week, I will be handing in my diplomatic passport, but I will adjust. I am actually quite flexible - Hon. Musa Francis Ecweru

#UBCUpdates | 📸 @RobertonyangoU

[Eguru Jacob @egurujacob20]

@emmanuel_dombo You better go to the gym.

[Ministry of Health- Uganda @MinofHealthUG]

Arsenal fans, celebrate with caution.
Enjoy. #MOHatWork | #FightEbolaUG26

[Yusuf Serunkuma🌹 @YusufSerunkuma]

Dear reader,

this piece is months of careful study & observation – pls read slowly, carefully. (or a second reading). This is not endorsement, nor a seer's prediction.

We have imbibed many fictions about democracy and electoral politics, & every five years we pretend to challenge M7 empire "democratically." We fail bse we knew we would fail. It is such a costly circus – as we seem to be looking forward to M7's death.

There is literary no sound opposition. Nor armed group either. We are still a colonized country – most colonized on continent – which means foreign capital will determine next president. Unless, something magical happens, but MK is in a good place to become next president.

Lets deal with this reality – lets ready selves for President Kainerugaba. He'll be no democrat, but will definitely be different from father.

[Troll Football @TrollFootball]

Arsenal are the Premier League Champions

[BigEyeUG @BigEyeUG]

Today in how to treat rich people