Details of bank account details of Bank of Uganda Deputy Governor, Dr. Louis Kasekende’s wife have leaked. Edith Kasekende (in featured photo) is swimming in billions of shillings yet she isn’t known to own business ventures that can accrue several millions of shillings within a short period of time. Sources
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By Ian M. Rumanyika Necessity. It is that which balances choices and shades light on the one choice that we truly cannot do without. What is necessary has to happen for with predestination, it has already been marked as inevitable. When we find ourselves hating on things that we need,
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Police in Tanzania say kidnapped billionaire Mohammed Dewji was taken by men driving a car that had arrived from "a neighbouring country", news agency Reuters reports. Police Inspector General Simon Sirro declined to say which country the car came from, saying he did not want to cause a diplomatic row.
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Uganda joined the rest of the World to celebrate the World Food Day on the October 16, 2018. However, farmers in Uganda under our umbrella Eastern and Southern Africa Small Scale Farmers Forum (ESAFF Uganda) are demanding government to subsidize agricultural mechanization machines to make them affordable to small scale
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Uganda will soon have 10 cities including the Capital City Kampala, Jeniffer Namuyangu, State Minister of Local Government has revealed. Namuyangu made the revelation on Thursday while Appearing before Parliament’s Committee of Public Service and Local Government. The nine municipalities set to be upgraded to city status include Mbarara, Gulu,
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About 3000 Police Officers are to be trained and equipped with CCTV management skills to help them handle the ongoing national safe city CCTV project. CP Yusuf Sewanyana, Deputy Director Information Communication Technology, has said that about 3000 monitoring agents in different categories like operators, traffic, field officers, command and control,
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The Kampala Minister, Beti Olive Kamya has praised Jennifer Musisi, the outgoing Executive Director Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA for transforming the face of the Uganda's capital, URN reports. According to Kamya, prior to Musisi's appointment, the city was dirty and dark, but her entry changed things. Kamya, who was addressing
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By Sunil Kaushal, CEO, Africa & Middle East at Standard Chartered Bank Think exponentially, not incrementally: How the rules of the game are changing in Africa’s banking sector An abundance of opportunities We are fortunate to witness a period of monumental progress in Africa. The changes are visible across
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Retail chain Uchumi Supermarkets' troubles have deepened after it was evicted from its Nairobi Industrial Area headquarters over its failure to pay millions of shillings in rent arrears, Nairobi based Business Daily reports. It has emerged that Uchumi’s top management has not accessed the premises since October 2 when the
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Legislators meeting in Geneva have voted to ban debate on the subject of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) at the Inter Parliamentary Union ever again. The Ugandan delegation led by Speaker Rebecca Kadaga led the move against what they termed as a well-orchestrated machination led by Canada and Belgium
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