Uganda’s Electoral Commission (EC) Thursday revealed that elections for Local Council (LC) one will take place on November21, 2017. Addressing the press at EC offices in Kampala, Justice Simon Byabakama, the EC Chairman said that LC1 voting will not be by secret ballot but rather voters will line up behind
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Sexual harassment, an overthrown chief executive, bitter boardroom in-fighting and a major lawsuit have not affected Uber's business. Quite the opposite. Figures published by news website Axios (which the BBC has confirmed are accurate) show the ride-sharing company's revenues are increasing, its losses are narrowing, and global bookings are up 150% on
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HIV/AIDS is no longer the leading cause of death for people in Africa, new statistics reveal. The World Health Organization's most recent data showed the crippling illness is now the second killer in Africa after years of campaigning for better contraception and education about the sexually-transmitted disease. Lower respiratory tract
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The Permanent Secretary for the Ministry of Information, Communication and Technology says that details of nearly four million Sim Cards submitted by subscribers cannot be matched with the provided National Identification Numbers (NINs). Vincent Bagiire made the revelation while appearing before a parliamentary joint committee chaired by Tororo North MP
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The Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) council on Wednesday appointed a four-member committee to study the upcoming festival and make recommendations on how "it can be owned by the authority rather than the Executive Director" Jennifer Semakula Musisi. The four committee members are Central Division Woman Councillor Fatumah Nsereko, Central
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The Trade Ministry is considering terminating Uganda's membership to some international organizations citing lack of subscription fees. The Trade Ministry Permanent Secretary, Julius Onen disclosed this while appearing before the Public Accounts Committee on Wednesday. The matter came to the fore during the scrutiny of queries raised by the Auditor
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Three large Ugandan firms are set to make millions after they were exclusively allowed to bring poultry products into Kenya. Kenya has partially lifted the ban on the products from the neighbouring country after an eight-month embargo that saw chicken and eggs locked out of the KSh500 million market following
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By Lydia Kayonde, One of the most significant changes in financial services over the past few decades has been the growth and adoption of Bancassurance. Whileit may sound like a complex word, it isa simple term coined by combining two words, bank and insurance. The sale and distribution of insurance
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In another bold move for self-sufficiency in sugar production through the government’s backward integration policy, the Pan African Conglomerate, Dangote Group Wednesday in Minna, Niger State signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the State Government for the establishment of a jumbo $450million (UShs1.6 trillion) state-of–art and fully integrated sugar
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It was the most disastrous product recall in the history of the mobile phone industry. Now, a year on from the exploding Galaxy Note 7 fiasco, Samsung on Wednesday unveiled the new version of its giant smartphone. It should be a nervous moment for a company which has had what
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