Month: January 2025

The Ruparelia Foundation, the charity arm of the Ruparelia Group of Companies has donated goodies to three orphanage centres to help disadvantaged children have a memorable Christmas. Every year, the Foundation organizes Christmas parties for these children but due to COVID-19 restrictions, the Foundation chose to donate 5000 Christmas hampers

dfcu Bank has introduced its reliable cost-effective Visa Contactless Credit Card that will be a convenient way of offering short term finance support to its customers. The card is available for Gold and Platinum users. The Visa Gold Card delivers the recognition, security and preferred service one demands. This credit

Uganda's regulator of the communications sector has written to Google, which owns YouTube, a video sharing platform, asking it to close 14 channels allegedly linked to last month's riots that left more than 50 people dead. The riots broke out in the capital, Kampala, and other major towns following the arrest

In response to what she calls a cluster of "fake news," the health ministry Permanent Secretary Dr Diana Atwine has unleashed photos of some of the tents used host COVID19 patients. Diana tweeted saying; "This is one of the tents at Entebbe General Hospital-Internal View at installation. The so called

EC officials interfacing with Presidential Candidate Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu The Electoral Commission on 15th December, 2020 met Presidential Candidate Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu and Senior National Unity Plat form (NUP) party officials over continued failure and/or refusal in complying with the Electoral Commission’s Guidelines for Conduct of Campaign Meetings and observance

Tony Elumelu, Founder of the Tony Elumelu Foundation The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), Africa’s leading philanthropy committed to empowering young African entrepreneurs, has announced a partnership with the European Union to identify, train, mentor and fund 2,500 young African women entrepreneurs in 2021.  The partnership will disburse €20 million in

ROKO construction Company Ltd is currently working smoothly on 24 projects worth $206m (roughly Shs800bn) despite a paltry debt of Shs2bn owed to Roofings Ltd. Roofings Ltd , through her lawyers M/S  Simon Tendo Kabenge last Friday  filed ‘a mischievous’ application before the High  Court seeking to wound up and

Health Ministry discharging COVID-19 patients after recovering from the deadly disease The Uganda Medical Association (UMA) has revealed that medical workers at the forefront of treating COVID-19 patients haven’t received heir allowances since August 2020. The revelation was made by Dr. Richard Idro, the President of Uganda Medical Association while