Gerald Businge

#HappeningNow The Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS) is conducting a media training in Gulu, equipping journalists with knowledge on standards and metrology to support accurate reporting on quality and consumer protection. The Gulu cohort adds to the nationwide UNBS media training that has reached Kampala, Mukono, Mbale, Jinja and Mbarara. Supported by the UK Government (@UKinUganda ) through @TradeMarkAfrica #JournalismForConsumerProtection #GrowingQualityEnterprises

I am honoured to be among 30 journalists from Northern Uganda who are participating in a three day Media Training on Standards and Metrology reporting at @BOMAHHOTELLTD organised by @UNBSug funded by @UKinUganda through @TradeMarkAfrica #JournalismForConsumerProtection

✨Today, @UNBSug conducted a News Editors engagement & officially launched Standards & Metrology reporting in the media at Golden Tulip Hotel. 📺This marks a strategic step in strengthening collaboration between regulatory institutions and the media. @UNBSug @TradeMarkAfrica

#HappeningNow UNBS is hosting a Standards and Metrology training with News Editors of all media houses in the country. The training, happening now at the Golden Tulip Hotel in Kampala, is aimed at enlightening the journalists about the UNBS mandate and services, to ensure accurate reporting of Quality, Standards and Metrology related issues, as well as UNBS efforts in attaining the ten-fold growth strategy. The National Training of journalists that has started in Kampala today, is to be held in different parts of the country in March 2026, starting with Mbale, Mukono, Gulu and Mbarara among others. The training was made possible with support from the UK government (@UKaid) through @TradeMarkAfrica #JournalismForConsumerProtection #GrowingQualityEnterprises

📣 Call for Applications: Are you a journalist, editor, digital content creator, or social media influencer interested in strengthening your reporting on standards, quality assurance, and metrology? 🔗 Apply here: shorturl.at/P8Pkw ⏰ Deadline: 24 February 2026,7:00 PM (EAT

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Remember when stories were just words on a page? Now we're living in an era where AR & VR lets audiences bring stories into our real world narratives. @Ultimate_UMC's @gbusinge shared insights on how tech has changed storytelling with our #MediaFellowshipUg fellows.

🎇The day is today friends!💫 Prepare your dancing shoes💃🕺🩰as we celebrate the 7years of service and positive impact created in our communities. You’re all invited!👌 #BungaWayVibes #CharterNight

@Rukwengye Integrating AI in teaching and learning is already happening. We @yaakadn have produced AI teachers for different subjects trained on the NCDC syllabus materials, e.g yaaka.cc/unit/soil-7/ learners can access learning content, but also as AI teachers and get immediate answers

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@akugizibwe @eyotaruolive @Bisiika Still lost for words. RIP brother Risdel

We really had a good time together, in Kampala. Rest in peace Risdel. @gbusinge @eyotaruolive @Bisiika monitor.co.ug/uganda/news/na…

@j_mucunguzi Thank you JM for sharing This is heart warning experience of the people who knew God (unlimited possibilities)in themselves and in others. We thank God for their and your life.

Mzee Sam Basuulwa, a former long serving District Education Officer (DEO) of the former greater Kabale District, a great man who became my friend when I was a young senior four student at Lake Bunyonyi Secondary School in 1993, and brought me to Entebbe for the very first time in 1994, introducing me to the family of ex-Prime Minister & Vice President, omusawo omutendekke, Dr Samson Babi Mululu Kisekka, in whose court in Temangalo, I would later spend a holiday, passed on last night aged 75. A giant in body, spirit and friendship, Mr Sam Basuulwa found me at Bwama Island where Lake Bunyonyi Secondary School is located one evening in 1993. He was in the company of a group friends , I later got to know were called Frabees, short for fraternal bees--a community of elders in the SDA Church that had struck omukago as young families and had kept that circle alive several decades later. In one of those photos, Basuulwa and his wife were visiting me in London when I lived and worked at the Commonwealth Secretariat in UK. The group included the likes of Samson Kisekka Junior, the eldest son of VP Kisekka, the owner of Maganjo Grain Millers and others. The Frabees had a culture of having annual retreats in different parts of Uganda, and on this occasion, the retreat brought them to Lake Bunyonyi organized and hosted by Sam Basuulwa. When the motorboat 🛥️ carrying them docked on our island, the headteacher of Bwama Primary School, Mr Jasper Magabari, who was on the ground making arrangements asked me and some other boys to assist the guests by carrying their luggage to the campsite where they were to spend a weekend eating money and enjoying life and exploring the beauty of Bunyonyi. The bag I picked belonged to Kisekka Junior. In the course of walking up the hill, we struck a conversation with Kisekka, drawing in Sam Basuulwa and sparking off friendship with both Basuulwa and Kisekka that is now 31 years old and growing stronger. When I joined A level at Kigezi High School in 1994, Basuulwa invited me to spend holidays at his huge Government House at Makanga Hill, just adjacent to the beautiful golf course lawns in Kabale. A peasant boy from Ryabirengye, Bukinda, Rukiga was now living large in a cemented house at the famous Makanga Hill, a stone throw away from the iconic White Horse Inn, eating toast bread and sausages. The Basuulwa children welcomed like I was their own brother. Geoffrey Ntege, Irene, Flower, Joseph Kasumba and Billy Best Basuulwa, all treated me so well and we remain in touch with especially Billy and Geof, todate. They were children with rich parents, but down to earth and easy to get along with. While there, one evening, he returned and told me that he had been talking about me with Samson Kisekka, and the two had decided to shop for me everything I needed at school. And they did . That term, they gave me 80,000, a lot of money at the time, that I used to buy a new four inch vitafoam mattress, bedsheets, shoes, slippers, sugar, millet flour and had a balance. The following holiday, while at the Makanga Residence, Basuulwa told me that Kisekka had requested that I spend it at his home in Temangalo, Wakiso District. I traveled with Basuulwa in his Chasser vehicle to Kampala, spending two nights at his Entebbe Home--the first time in Entebbe for me, and even got a chance to have my maiden visit to the airport to see aeroplanes. Basuulwa then dropped me off at Kisekka Foundation Hospital near Kisekka Market, from where I boarded a vehicle to Temangalo. My three weeks at Temangalo, where I got a chance to meet the former PM and Vice President, were eye opening. They gave me life long lessons in humility, hardwork and purpose. I learnt how to bake bread and look after poultry, skills I continue to employ todate. Since that first meeting in 1993, we built a lasting triangle of friendship with Mwami Basuulwa and Kisekka. Basuulwa will be laid to rest on 2nd January 2025 in Mubende.

@pwatchug @KiryowaKk Illegal according to what law? Doesnt illegal mean against the law? Can educating children in a home or out of school be illegal? Are children not expected to learn in or out of school? And what is homeschooling?

Attorney General, @KiryowaKk has revealed that all parents and guardians who have chosen to homeschool their children are doing so illegally because the laws in Uganda require them to take their children to school. His remarks were in response to a question raised by Molly Musiime Asiimwe (Rwampara DWR) who wondered why Government didn’t consider regulating homeschooling during the drafting of the National Teachers Bill, 2024, yet this is a practice that has gained ground in Uganda.

October started off on a good note with an insightful lecture about media monitoring by @gbusinge earlier today. Discussions rotated around the use of AI in media monitoring, the KPIs communications professionals can use in their work.

Started October with an inspiring bang lecture from the one and only @gbusinge👏🥳. And as an aspiring Communication guru, I was sold as far as media M&E is concerned. Thank you so much Sir 👏 The future is definitely bright✨ #Learn,RelearnandUnlearn📌

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@tumwineedward @usmissionuganda @StateIVLP Congratulations Edward. We wish you the very best in this engagement.

Honoured to be selected by @usmissionuganda for the International Visitors Leadership Project under the theme Advocacy Through Social Media. Looking forward to candid discussions on technology and social media with various digital companies in the US.

🥽 Imagine stepping into the story and experiencing it firsthand. That's the power of #VirtualReality, one of the emerging technologies in journalism! Our #MediaFellowshipUg fellows had a discussion on emerging technologies such as AR and VR that can be used to create immersive stories that transport audiences to the heart of the action with Gerald Businge and Edward Tumwine. The Fellowship program is in partnership with the @dw_akademie, @KasUganda, @SegalFoundation and @UNESCO IPDC.

AI Music is something these days. Allows anyone to pull off some crazy tracks. @gbusinge #AIContentCreation #aice #aiced2024 #alx_ai