THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 2025
Good morning ! On this day of August 7, 1972, President Idi Amin started "operation Mafuta Mingi" - an exercise in which Asian persons were expelled from Uganda and over 5,600 businesses and properties were taken over by the locals.
And on the same day but in 1960 - Ivory Coast gained its independence from France.
Today on TUB - we look at 'BLACK LIKE ME' a book by Dr. Dennis Sempebwa...
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In the news;
▶️ Lawyers are jubilating after Gov't decided to end the LDC's 55 year monopoly on Post Graduate Legal Training in Uganda. Gov't will licence more learning institutions to provide this kind of training and LDC will become like UNEB - only setting & marking the national legal exams.
▶️ A new app called 'Tubikima' has entered the waste management business in Uganda. It will enable households and businesses to schedule garbage and waste pickup, track collection teams in real time and make electronic payments.
Check it out here 👉🏿 https://tubikima.com/
This streamlined logistics system replaces our informal disposal methods and fosters cleaner and more accountable communities
▶️ Meanwhile, Ghana has told DSTV to cut their TV prices or exit the country.
Samuel Nartey George, the communications minister, instructed the National Communications Authority to begin suspension proceedings against MultiChoice Ghana, the DSTV operator, if it fails to comply with regulatory expectations for a price cut by today - August 7.
▶️ And in sad news, Business man and FDC financier, Mr. James Musinguzi Garuga passed on yesterday at Nakasero Hospital, Kampala. May His Soul Rest in Peace.
That's enough for today. Find details in; newvision, monitor, observer, the independent, nile post , chimp reports etc...
See you later.
The Sanyu Daily Team
DAILY QUOTE.
" If you are worried about the quality ; what makes the quality of a lawyer is the exposure to practice work. LDC is now interested in having the teaching decentralised. What matters is to pass exams. Its like sports - you can train from Kapchorwa for the New York marathon -as long as you excel" Norbert Mao - Minister of Justice.