Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Government has officially cancelled daily levies on all Public Service Vehicles and ordered a stop to the use of agents in the collection of park user fees from taxi operators. All PSVs will now make a single annual E-payment of sh720,000 and sh840,000 for …
Read More »NSSF courts savers
New strategy of pay-out boosts confidence Kampala, Uganda | ISAAC KHISA | Uganda’s National Social Security Fund (NSSF) seems to be determined to bring more savers to its portfolio, its statistics show. The Fund’s latest Transparency Statement reveals that though it recorded growth in income from Shs788.6bn to Shs1.34trillion, with nearly …
Read More »Peter Nyombi, former Attorney General, dies at 64
Soweto, South Africa | IAN KATUSIIME | It is said being Attorney General is among the worst jobs in government. As the government’s legal advisor, one has to possibly take a number of untenable positions for the sake of the government. And one could say that Peter Nyombi who passed …
Read More »UBA wins best social banking award for leo-chat banking
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | UBA Uganda has been crowned the winner of the Digital Impact Awards Africa (DIAA) Social Banking award for its ground breaking Innovation -LEO Chat banking, at an event held at Kampala Serena Hotel last week. The 2018 Digital Impact Awards (DIAA) themed Include Everyone recognized …
Read More »Insurance: Phoenix eyes 57% growth after rebranding
Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | Starting Oct.11, Phoenix Assurance rebranded and changed its name to MUA Insurance Uganda Ltd or simply MUA following an event that took place at the Sheraton Kampala Hotel a day before. Phoenix of Uganda Assurance Company Ltd was licensed to do business in Uganda in …
Read More »4th Annual TEF Entrepreneurship Forum announced for 25th october 2018
5,000 Entrepreneurs to be welcomed in Lagos for Africa’s largest entrepreneurial convening Kampala, Uganda | ISAAC KHISA | Africa’s leading entrepreneurship-focused philanthropic organisation, the Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), has announced October 25, 2018, as the date for its 4th annual TEF Entrepreneurship Forum. The largest gathering of African entrepreneurs and the …
Read More »Family of kidnapped Tanzanian billionaire Dewji offer reward
Nairobi, Kenya | AFP | The family of Tanzania’s only billionaire Mohammed Dewji, who was kidnapped last week in Dar es Salaam, on Monday announced a reward of nearly half a million dollars for information on his whereabouts. Gunmen snatched Dewji, 43, listed by Forbes as Africa’s youngest billionaire, as …
Read More »As rape crisis grows, South African pupils learn how to fight back
Soweto, South Africa | AFP | In a classroom in the South African township of Soweto, girls listen carefully, knowing they need to learn how to avoid the threat of rape that hangs over their daily lives. “You are going to pretend that it is the rapist’s testicles,” says trainer …
Read More »Museveni visits site of deadly Uganda landslide
Bududa, Uganda | AFP | Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni visited eastern Bududa Sunday after 43 people died when a landslide caused a river to burst its banks, sending water and boulders cascading downhill. Wearing military uniform and carrying a cleft stick Museveni looked across the Sume river at the remains …
Read More »Okwi double as Uganda Cranes go three points clear
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