“If I could pay my bills during and after the lockdown, I am not afraid of any more pitfalls that may come along the way,” said Austin, a 23 year old business computing graduate who co- owns a shop selling phones at Ivory plaza. This pitfall is one of a
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Stakeholders in the coffee production value chain have been urged to generate strategies that will promote domestic coffee consumption. This is aimed at increasing the coffee market and ensure sustainable coffee production in Uganda. Coffee Famers, coffee shops, buyers among others have particularly been tasked to remove barriers to the
Read MoreUganda's foreign ministry has recalled some members of staff in its embassy in Denmark to pave way for investigations following a newspaper report of a plot to misappropriate public funds. The Ugandan Daily Monitor newspaper highlighted a leaked audio recording of people discussing the plan. But there has been no
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Joseph Maina has transformed the classrooms in his school Kenya's decision to close all schools until next January because of coronavirus has left many of its private schools struggling to survive, as Basillioh Mutahi and Mercy Juma report. The classrooms at Mwea Brethren School, which once resonated to the sound
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Mandela National Stadium commonly referred to as Namboole Stadium has received three land titles from the Ministry of Lands and Urban Development after years of battles with encroachers. The titles were yesterday handed over to the ministry of education and sports as and the management of the stadium. On receiving
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The Inspector General of Police, Martin Okoth Ochola (pictured) has directed for temporarily closure of police headquarters in Naguru, a Kampala suburb to allow thorough fumigation of the place as a measure of containing the spread of COVID-19. The venue will be closed for three days. This follows the news
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Government through the Ministry of Internal Affairs is under consultations of reviewing deadline dates of phasing out all the old passports which are to be replaced by the East African Community electronic passports. The Ministry had set January 31st 2021 in relation to the EAC's dates of January 15th 2021
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Coffee affected by Red Blister Disease Farmers in Munkono district recently reached out to National Union of Coffee Agribusinesses and Farm Enterprises (NUCAFE) over a possible outbreak of ‘a strange’ and devastating coffee disease. NUCAFE is the umbrella body of coffee farmers across the country. According to farmers, the disease
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By Ronald K Ssekajja The banking world like other sectors has been tried and tested in the global war against a pandemic. Amazingly, the financial world has withstood the shock, using this period to showcase hard-won resilience to preserve support customers and consequently, national economies. dfcu Bank’s recent financial report
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CiplaQCIL CEO, Nevin Bradford Cipla Quality Chemical Industries Ltd (CiplaQCIL) has announced the acquisition of the Human Care Business of Quality Chemicals Limited (QCL) in Shs4.67bn deal. “Pursuant to Rule 38 (1) (a) and Appendix 4:Paragraph 1 of the Uganda Securities Exchange Listing Rules 2003 (as amended), CiplaQCIL is pleased
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