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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Barclays Bank of Kenya’s planned change of trade name to ABSA has run into strong headwinds after a local company went to court to stop the shift on grounds that it reserved and has been using the name for more than a decade, according to …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | It is exactly a year since the Rwandan government fired John Mirenge as the chief executive officer of national carrier, RwandAir, replacing him with Col Chance Dergano in an acting capacity. The good news now is that the national carrier has a substantial CEO following …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | If you want to see the future of storefront retailing, walk nine blocks along Broadway in New York city, USA, from 57th to 48th Street and count the stores. The total number comes to precisely one — a tiny shop to buy drones. That’s right: …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Vatican communications department has been working overtime the past few weeks. They are scrambling to contextualize a remark attributed to Pope Francis by an Italian journalist at the newspaper La Repubblica that hell does not exist. Speaking to the newspaper’s founder, journalist and atheist …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The East African governments have been urged to use the Stock Exchanges to raise capital especially through issuance of large Initial Public Offers (IPOs) that can only come from the public sector. Geoffrey Odundo, the CEO for the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE), said there is …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A study from Arizona State University published in the journal Advances in Physiology Education, found that gender greatly influenced how intelligent a person thought they were, especially when compared to others. The study asked 250 students in a college biology classroom to estimate their …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Safaricom- backed online taxi-hailing app Little Ride is set to unveils its services in Uganda mid next month, marking its first expansion outside Kenya. Little, developed by technology firm Craft Silicon, says it is in the advanced stages to rollout the tax-hailing app in Kampala. …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A man recently jumped on stage during a Passion of the Christ theater play and, in a bid to save Jesus from getting crucified, hit an actor playing a Roman soldier over the head with a motorcycle helmet. The incident took during the Easter …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | In a study published in the journal `Evolutionary Psychological Science’, scientists have discovered an interesting connection between atheism and certain genetic traits, including left-handedness, schizophrenia, and autism. It all comes down to the DNA and something they refer to as “mutational load”. Essentially, people …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | In line with what it had promised earlier, Airtel Uganda handed over 100 goats to 50 girls in Moroto district in a bid to join in the fundraising campaign #GOATSFORGIRLS that aims at keeping young girls in the Karamoja region in school. The company said …