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[Atugonza @peterabwooli]

HOW TO SURVIVE IN HOIMA CITY FOR NEWCOMERS (2026)

1. Blend in with a Kitara FC jersey @KitarafcHoima (available at their office on Main Street). Supporting Kitara is both local patriotism and free conversation currency. Wear it and suddenly every boda guy becomes your best friend. The new Hoima City Stadium is the real deal now - try not to cry when you see the pitch.

2. Avoid Kiryatete after dark. It’s still the street that separates the cautious from the people who later post “Hoima is unsafe” on Twitter.

3. Arrows Bar/Restaurant remains a solid first landing. Decent company, boiled goat meat, mulokonyi, and vibes that won’t leave you questioning your life choices by midnight. The roasted goat here is basically the unofficial welcome committee. Don’t fight it. In came, Kats, Melano, Danjo and Kefa Rymz (especially that meal hated by the entire religion)

4. Hit restaurants like food courts for plates that won’t bankrupt you, Amigos if you’re from the north and miss home so much you’re about to cry into your Marakwang, and New Sunshine/Halal/Masha Allah restaurants for reliable matooke and grilled tilapia. Street Rolex is still the cheapest breakfast that rarely betrays you - just don’t ask too many questions about the eggs.

5. Rent in Lusaka Upper (not Lower), Bujwahya, Kinubi, Bujumbura East or parts of Kijungu/Muyenga. Demand has risen with oil workers and AFCON preparations, so lock something early or prepare to negotiate against three engineers, a Kitara supporter, and someone’s uncle who “knows the landlord personally.”

6. Slay-queen radar stays the same. If she’s sitting alone looking like she has a business proposal, she probably does. Better still, ask around for “Jomayi.”

7. Boda fares within a few kilometres of town should stay under 2k if you look like you belong. Agree the price before you sit. After dark, don’t walk unlit roads - bodas may be chaotic, but they’re cheaper than hospital bills and better conversation than your own thoughts.

8. Swimming is cheaper at some older hotels, but Miika Eco Resort still has one of the better pools. Perfect for recovering from “just one more Nile Special.” The water doesn’t judge your life choices. Much.

9. Drink Albertine or Rwenzori water. National water here has mood swings and besides tap water is still a gamble best left to the brave, the foolish, or people who enjoy surprise visits to the clinic.

10. Plots of land remain relatively accessible compared to Kampala - prime areas like Kanenankumba (Muyenga) and Bujumbura still move, though prices have firmed with the oil and airport news. There are legit guys like Blue Print ltd, Oilland real estate ltd etc

11. Fresh food at Hoima Central Market from early morning. By afternoon the best fish and vegetables are gone. Unlike your hometown markets, Fresh foods here keeps flowing in from our village food baskets.The market is loud, crowded, and full of people who will negotiate like their life depends on it - because it kind of does.

12. Main Street is the banking and commercial spine (Stanbic, Absa, Dfcu etc.). Wright Road for electronics and cosmetics, Old Toro Road for boutiques and the town mosque. If you’re looking for banks, you’re looking for Main Street. If you’re looking for drama, the market will provide.

13. Nightlife is active and generally friendly. Arrows, Kat’s, Café Milano, Danjo and a few newer spots. Liquor does seem to taste different here - science has not explained it, but local wisdom says it’s the altitude, the vibes, or just the fact that you’re finally relaxing. Go in a group after 10 pm not earlier. Wednesday at Milano, Thursday at Arrows, Friday at Kefa and Danjo, Saturday all places are filled up but it all ends at Milano, Sunday is Kats lounge.

14. Accommodation can still be as low as 15-25k for a basic room if you’re not picky. Oil-worker demand has pushed mid-range options up. Basic rooms come with basic expectations - bring your own expectations (and maybe earplugs). Else, Hotels in the city centre like @hbhotels_ , Hoima Resort, etc and out of town calmness for @MiikaEcoResort and @kabalegaresorts etc

15. Notable pharmacies: Allanz, Guardian Health, 3Doc, Nilkanth, Gloria Pharmacy, Raimset (opp HB hotel) and others. Stock up; don’t wait until you’re already down and bargaining with a headache. Gloria has been famous longer than some of us have been alive.
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[Doreen Kabareebe Harris @Iamkabareebe]

LEARN SOMETHING FROM HIS STORY!

“I am called Sadiq Bamukwaya and I went to work in Canada 2012, I worked four years and then had saved $310000 roughly 1B Ugandan shillings.

I came back to Uganda in 2016, after I asked my friends to advise me on the kind of business to invest in my money that would return good profits.

One of my friends called Paul who was a businessman told me that when you have money, everyone wants to be close to you. He was dealing in transport and construction and remember before going to Canada I was also working in transportation business working with Hima Cement supplying materials which meant that I had experience in transportation business.

I then bought a SINO TRUCK at 280M which worked very well and I bought the second one. They’re both carrying aggregates from Zirobwe, Kampala.

I mobilized all my savings and sold some few plots of lands that my mother had bought for me when I was still in Canada from the money I sent to her by then. This helped me to buy more two SINO TRUCKS from which I paid one cash and the second on credit.

The businesses were progressing well and I had to buy a Harrier, Lexus for my mobile transportation.

Later in 2018 life started changing, one of my SINO TRUCKS got an accident and the driver died, we carried on from that accident like anyone else could.

Another got damaged from Lwera and now I was remaining with two working cars and I sold it cheaply at 50M yet I bought it at 300M.

The third car was impounded by police as my driver was smuggling very sensitive material and up to now it’s still at the police, I had even to deny the ownership to avoid being arrested.

The last one that I had bought on credit was taken back by the Chinese seller from Bulenga, Kampala.

From there I became poor and all my savings were finished, the person who was calling me started hiding from me and all my friends stopped talking to me one by one.

As a Muslim, I started praying at night begging Allah to bail me out from that situation I was entangled in. I was so down to the extent that someone who had almost 2B shillings could not raise 50k.

My wife run away and I had to sell off my Harrier since I had no fuel and even to pay all the debts in place.

The good thing I had build a good house in all this and it’s the one I was left with, I then went to farming specifically cattle rearing and it’s today I thank God that I can get school fees for my children from.

I tell you guys, when you’re in your prime time never under look or disrespect anyone. At any time life can change from good to bad”

[Ser-Stuart @Stuart_Ser]

@kyamageroandrew @kyamageroandrew it burns so deep into the soul. It's an encouraging piece. Life has to go on

[Andrew Kyamagero @kyamageroandrew]

Watch this, comrade, this morning. I wish you the best of today.

[Buregyeya Apollo, PhD @ApolloBuregyeya]

THE FACTORY IS THE NEW UNIVERSITY.
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Uganda is rolling out a competence-based curriculum. That is necessary, but competence has an address. It lives in a workshop, a plant, a construction site, a laboratory, a mine, a functioning maintenance system, and a vibrant commerce. We cannot teach welding from a rubric, precision assembly from a whiteboard, or infrastructure maintenance from photographs of a broken road.

Patrick McGee reports that Apple estimated its operations and supply network had trained at least 28 million workers in China since 2008. These were not 28 million people seated in lecture theatres. They learned by making products, correcting defects, operating machines, meeting tolerances and delivering to customers who could reject poor work. Aristotle advised centuries ago: “For things that we have to learn to do, we learn by doing them.”

The lesson is not that factories should replace universities. They should not. Engineering design, medical practice, research and public safety require disciplined theory and professional preparation. But the university no longer has a monopoly over technical education. A country acquires productive capability when learning moves continuously between the classroom, the workshop, the factory, the site and the laboratory.

That is where Uganda must become more demanding as we implement the Tenfold Growth Strategy. Every large public contract, mining licence, industrial-park allocation and foreign investment should answer one question: what capability will remain in Uganda when the contractor or investor leaves? Not simply how many people were employed to sweep, load and guard, but how many became technicians, supervisors, maintainers, process engineers and independent suppliers.

One job ends when a contract ends. A skill remains in the country. A local subcontractor that has learnt quality control, equipment management, costing and delivery can bid for the next job. That is how public expenditure becomes national capability instead of a temporary spectacle of foreign machinery and branded helmets.

BUBU should therefore measure more than how much Uganda buys. It should measure what Uganda can now make, repair, operate and improve. Every major investment should carry a skills and supplier-development plan, with targets that are assessed, audited and published. Workplace learning should also earn recognised qualifications, so that a capable technician can progress into further training and university study without starting from zero.

Parents, too, need a new question. Good grades matter, but they are not the whole story. Alongside asking a child what they scored, we should ask what they can make, who has seen them do it, and what the next level of learning should be.

The university needs a loading bay. Industry needs a classroom. Uganda needs both.

[Ser-Stuart @Stuart_Ser]

@BoniFaceacaca True story, no AI

[Ser-Stuart @Stuart_Ser]

@Sudhirntv BUBU

[AIGP(Rtd) Asan Kasingye @AKasingye]

In 2005, I started a lorry transport business specializing in building materials. I had graduated from taxi business.

My three lorries were sold to me by a friend of a friend completely on very little installment based on trust & my good image.

By 2020, I was boasting of about 20 trucks. 17 years later in 2022, I wound the business. No money on the business account and no lorry in the parking space. In case you are new in the business & intend to start one, these are the things that crushed mine.

1. The COVID-19 two-year spell. Building material transportation was allowed to operate. But, I had limited supervision even when I was a police boss that was considered essential worker. I couldn’t tell where the lorries were. Some drivers leased out the vehicles to cement factories & were paid while they lied to me that the vehicles were parked. The stone boulders plus long distances from Karamoja wrecked the lorries. In 2 years, the highest amount I could sell the vehicle was 10m out of a possible 150m.
2. Drivers change tyres & replace them with old ones. Instead of tyres lasting 7 months and more, the 10 tires are changed twice or thrice in a year.
3. Drivers will hire out the vehicle to other unauthorized drivers who don’t care about the safety of the vehicle. They will drive day and night while you get nothing. One time, I woke up & saw a picture of my vehicle “resting”in someone’s home. It had failed to brake & rammed into someone’s home. Fortunately, no one was hurt. I was surprised to be told it was being driven by a third person & had paid for new brakes a week before.
4. You will find your vehicle parked on the road. “What’s the problem you ask”? “Afande it could not break”. After a bit of mechanical check the following day, you’re told that while it was parked, someone came & stole a starter system valued at 5m. What?😳
5. Every trip of sand the driver carries say from Lwera, is full board capacity. Then 1/4, is removed & powered at the drivers’ mound of sand somewhere in the city. Later, he starts carrying his own sand but will tell you he parked the lorry then whole day because he was sick or the vehicle had a fault. All the money made is his.
6. You will be called that NEMA enforcement found your lorry in a swampy area. They need 2m fine or pay a bribe of 500k. This happens to be connivance with your driver. You pay the bribe and they share.
7. Repairs are the most pocket ripping venture. You’re told this and that is faulty. You can’t be driving to garages all the time. Even if you went & bent your knee under the carriage of your lorry, you won’t tell a faulty propeller shaft from a good one. Either the vehicle is not faulty or the cost of spare parts is exaggerated.
7. The taxes. Do I need to say anything about this? You’re assessed money that buys a new truck in domestic taxes. All the time your vehicle was in garage, you should have notified URA. Tell me, which driver does this? So, all the small profit you made, is taken away by the taxman.
8. I swear, it’s like no truck in Uganda is supposed to last a year without terrible accidents. You’re always compensating for killing dogs, goats, destruction of houses, cars, or Petro stations. Hew!
9. The driver declares any money he chooses. No question. He calls for the shots. Not you.
10. If you buy a truck at 200m & it works for a week, it has lost value of 100m if you wish to sell it. Which business is this that makes assets depreciate in a week?

My post is not meant to discourage you, but to give you background information so that you mitigate against these before you venture into this business. Do I talk too much? May be not!

[Ser-Stuart @Stuart_Ser]

@DailyMonitor 1. Your husband knows that something is not right
2. A bird in the hand iw worth 2 in the bush, get back to your husband
3. With that heart don't bewitch the new woman...

[Ser-Stuart @Stuart_Ser]

@912CroozeFM Stay home with your children. "Who will take care of the children?" They belong to you.

[Ser-Stuart @Stuart_Ser]

These hormonal things of family planning are changing women. Anyway all in all it stops getting pregnant... That mission is achieved.... Bah side effects are not easy to deal with

[Chomzy @Chocolatechomzy]

Family planning is one thing I would never wish for my enemy

So I said to myself that even before I had my last baby 18-09-2024 me and my husband thought that three kids was enough for us

I said to myself that I need family planning
because my womb likes carrying babies

Before you know I am pregnant, before I would close my eyes and open it am pregnant again

That was how the thoughts of inserting family planning came in.

I decided to go for 5 years planning
That was the biggest mistake of my life
Immediately it was inserted inside of me, the whole of my body hormones change from positive to negative

First of foremost I started reducing weight
me that was weighing 75 on scale reduce to 53 on scale

I became so small that you would think I was hungry at home, or sick

People who knew me hardly recognise me

My period that was 4-5 days became 14 -20 day's every month

I lost my self in the process
I couldn't work for 1 hour before you know it will be feeling so deezy

My body discharge change
Lost Appetites
Eating was a big problem for me

It was so bad that every month I will be in the hospital for 3-5 times

Told doctors how I was feeling they said with time it will stop

I ask Biko till when, before I kpaii or when

Because I was no longer my self
My husband said if it is not working on your body please take it out, immediately I replied that yes, this thing needs to go out from my body before I would lose my sanity

Went to the hospital for removal, yet this doctors still left a piece inside my body.

If you think of trying family planning please abort that mission.

Bliss Farm

[Ser-Stuart @Stuart_Ser]

Happy birthday Justine @mukamajustin2

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@DoreenNyanjura @DoreenNyanjura ohangaale nkoburo, enkole ihukura...

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@SolomonSerwanjj Congratulations chairman @SolomonSerwanjj #BamutakuddeRising you are indeed a chairman to emulate... I admire your leadership model

[Ser-Stuart @Stuart_Ser]

@aitajoel It's passport office, driving permit office that have served is genuinely with less complaints. @NIRA_Ug please benchmark from these sister offices. They are doing a good work.

[Ser-Stuart @Stuart_Ser]

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[Bunyoro-Kitara Kingdom @Bunyoro_Kitara]

Semwema was the parliament of the Bachwezi during the Chwezi Dynasty. Located along the Mubende–Kakumiro road, approximately 2 kilometres west of Kakumiro Town, the site holds significant historical and cultural importance.

Beyond being a remarkable tourist attraction, Semwema remains an active shrine of the Bachwezi. The cave beneath the rock have the capacity to shelter up to 200 people.

Discover the history, culture and heritage of Bunyoro-Kitara.

#TurambuleBunyoro

[Ser-Stuart @Stuart_Ser]

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[Ser-Stuart @Stuart_Ser]

@lifeforcer Life z simple, put whatever is remaining in a black kaveera, go home. Leave their plates at their restaurant.