Vodafone appoints new CEO
By Our Reporter Vodafone Uganda has appointed John Ndego as its new Chief Executive Officer with effect from 11th July 2016. He replaces Allan Richardson, who returns to the Afrimax Group office in...
View ArticleUBL celebrates 70 years in Uganda
By Silvia Nyambura Uganda Breweries Limited has announced it will be celebrating 70 years of existence in the country on 27th July, 2016. Set up after the World War II in 1946, the company was the 18th...
View ArticleDigital transformation in education key to stirring growth in East Africa,...
By Abey Tau There is an ongoing discussion about development in East Africa and a new narrative that has emerged in recent years that it is a lot more exciting. It is a story of resilience,...
View ArticleEthiopian Airlines resumes daily flights to Juba
By Our Reporter Ethiopian Airlines has resumed daily flights to Juba Southern Sudan with the first flight scheduled to land at Entebbe International Airport at 13:00 hours today. Flight ET 357 is then...
View ArticleUgandan Bourse ends week with a drop in turnover
By Our Reporter Seven out of eight counters posted activity in this week’s trading. Market value traded fell to Ushs 6.48 billion from Ushs 7.23 billion last week. Stanbic Bank Uganda (SBU) was the...
View ArticleJumia named one of the world’s Top 50 Smartest Companies
By Our Reporter Jumia Group has been named as the only Africa-focused company to make the World’s Top 50 Smartest Companies list (2016), published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)....
View ArticleVodafone Uganda urges tourism industry to embrace technology to thrive
By Our Reporter Players in the tourism and travel industry have been advised to embrace new technology in order to boost their businesses and further develop the industry in the country. Speaking at...
View ArticleIRA to introduce product guidelines to boost insurance uptake
By Our Reporter The Insurance Regulatory Authority (IRA) is set to come up with guidelines aimed at facilitating the introduction of new insurance products. This comes as the industry seeks new ways to...
View ArticleBOU lowers lending rate to commercial banks
By Silvia Nyambura Bank of Uganda (BOU) has cut the Central Bank Rate (CBR) by 1 percentage point to 14%. This may or may not have an effect on commercial banks’ lending rates which currently stand at...
View ArticleMTN customers to enjoy new loans and savings product
By Silvia Nyambura MTN Uganda in partnership with Commercial Bank of Africa (CBA) has today launched ‘MoKash’ a micro savings and loans product available for customers on MTN Mobile Money. The new...
View ArticleStanbic Bank posts solid growth for first half of 2016
By Silvia Nyambura Stanbic Bank has registered a 28% growth in revenues recording Ushs 334.4 billion for the first half of 2016. This is compared to Ushs 261.2 billion in the same period last year....
View ArticleNew medical scheme to train 600 cancer specialists in East Africa
By Our Reporter The East African Development Bank (EADB) and the British Council in partnership with the Royal College of Physicians (London), has launched a medical training and fellowships program to...
View ArticleUgandan bourse registers slower week
By Our Reporter Market activity decelerated this week with 1.96 million shares changing hands to generate a turnover of Ushs 171.34 million compared to the past week where 2.38 million shares were...
View ArticleEthiopian Airlines resumes daily flights to Juba
By Our Reporter Ethiopian Airlines has resumed daily flights to Juba Southern Sudan with the first flight scheduled to land at Entebbe International Airport at 13:00 hours today. Flight ET 357 is then...
View ArticleAon urges URA to seal revenue loss in the shipping industry
By Our Reporter Uganda loses up to Ushs 50 billion annually in revenue due to failure to enforce the Marine Act, Insurance broker Aon’s CEO Maurice Amogola has said. According to him, much of the cargo...
View ArticleICT Ministry, NITA-U urge on adoption of open source software
By Our Reporter Increased awareness, integration and adoption of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in Uganda, both by government and the private sector is key to improving service delivery. It will...
View ArticleSME entrepreneurs graduate from Stanbic Business Mentorship Program
By Our Reporter 210 Small and Medium Enterprises (SME’s) have trained and graduated from a Business Mentoring Program supported by Stanbic Bank in partnership with Enterprise Uganda. The one-year...
View ArticleToshiba, Ministry of Energy conclude MOU on Geothermal Power generation
By Our Reporter Toshiba Corporation today concluded a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Uganda’s Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development (MEMD) on a comprehensive partnership in geothermal...
View ArticleUAP Old Mutual invests in training to improve staff skills
By Our Reporter UAP Old Mutual has stepped up its staff training program aimed at equipping employees with the necessary professional skills that will allow them to better deliver in their jobs. The...
View ArticleCrown Beverages unveils Ushs 3.5 billion consumer promotion
By Our Reporter Crown Beverages Limited (CBL), the bottler of Pepsi, Mirinda, Mountain Dew, 7Up and Evervess has today unveiled Sala Puleesa, a new promotion aimed at rewarding consumers of its soft...
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