The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), the leading African philanthropy committed to empowering African entrepreneurs, Friday announced 3,050 African entrepreneurs, drawn from all 54 African countries, selected to join the 5th cycle of its $100million TEF Entrepreneurship Programme. The announcement was made at the Transcorp Hilton Abuja, following a presentation of
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People who have been eager to occupy political offices in newly created districts should wait a little longer because government has no money to hold the elections. The pronouncement was made today by the State Minister for Planning, David Bahati during the plenary sitting when he was asked to update
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The Vice Chancellor of Victoria University Dr. Krishna N. Sharma (in featured photo) has created a record of world’s ‘Youngest Vice Chancellor”, Unique World Records has said. In a certificate awarded to Dr. Sharma seen by this website, Dr. Desraj Goyal, the Chief Editor, Unique World Recods Ltd says Sharma
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Morocco's Mohamed el Kettani emerged the 2019 African CEO of the year at the 7th edition of the Africa CEO Forum, which is taking place in Kigali from March 25, 2019. Mohamed el Kettani has invested more than $1 billion on the continent over the past seven year. He is
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Top officials from the Ministry of lands have been cited in a massive land grabbing scandal, Business Focus reveals. According to the documents obtained by this website, the land under contention is divided into several estates worth billions of shillings across Buganda Kingdom. Some of the estates are based in
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A New York-based company is claiming to have obtained a licence to cultivate marijuana on 500 acres of land in Kenya, bringing closer home the current global debate about regulation and control of the narcotic, Business Daily reports. In a notice, GoIP Global Inc, which is listed on the OTC
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By Katusiime Kellen The continued recovery of Uganda’s economy last year contributed to the strong performance of MTN Uganda in 2018. MTN Uganda’s revenue in 2018 grew by 8.6% due to increased voice calls, data usage and MTN Mobile Money. Uganda’s economy is estimated to have grown by 5.3% in
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The police in its disciplinary court sitting of Thursday, 21st March 2019, charged 17 officers with the disciplinary offence of disobedience of lawful orders. The misconduct arose when on the 13th January 2019, they without good and sufficient cause neglected and omitted to report for a training course at Police
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The Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga is steadily improving and is now able to speak to her visitors, local news agency, URN reports. Kadaga was hospitalized at Nakasero Hospital on Thursday over fatigue related illness following her return from trips in New York, USA and Rabat, Morocco. A statement
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Ethiopian Airlines will work with investigators in Ethiopia, the United States and elsewhere “to figure out what went wrong with flight 302”, the airline’s CEO Tewolde Gebremariam said on Monday. His pledge follows reports the investigation was under strain because information about the March 10 crash, which killed 157 people,
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