17-year-old Victory Yinka-Banjo One Nigerian teenager must feel like she has the world at her feet after receiving 19 full-ride scholarship offers from universities across the United States and Canada. Victory Yinka-Banjo, a 17-year-old high school graduate, was offered more than $5 million dollars' (UShs17.9bn) worth of scholarship money for
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IRA Chief Executive Officer, Kaddunabbi Ibrahim Lubega The regulations that will guide the establishment of Takaful, the kind of insurance that employs Islamic principles for members to contribute money into a pool system to guarantee each other against loss or damage have been submitted to the Ministry of Finance for
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Panelists who spoke during dfcu Bank’s engagement meeting with customers for financial opportunities in the Oil and Gas sector in a group photo dfcu Bank has held an engagement for its customers and key stakeholders in the oil and gas sector to share insights into the opportunities in the US$15 billion Oil
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Jennifer Kalule-Mulumba, the UNEB spokesperson. The Uganda National Examination Board (UNEB) might fail to mark 2020 national examinations in the required time as some examiners have failed to turn up at the marking centres. This year, the examinations board was expecting 2,000 examiners at the designated 40 centres to mark
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Grace Dormitory that was burnt at King's college Budo Preliminary police findings into the fire that gutted a dormitory at King’s College Budo point to possible arson.On Tuesday morning, fire gutted Grace House, one of the girls’ dormitories at King’s College Budo in Wakiso District destroying student’s property worth millions
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Stephen Karanja campaigned on numerous issues A Kenyan doctor who became a vociferous opponent of the Covid-19 vaccine has succumbed to the virus, weeks after saying the jab was "totally unnecessary". Dr Stephen Karanja, chairman of the Kenya Catholic Doctors Association, advocated steam inhalation and hydroxychloroquine tablets. He clashed with
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Parliament of Uganda Some members of Parliament who lost the 2021 elections have been told to set up businesses and projects with their pensions and gratuity. With their monthly pay of at least 20 Million coming to an end in May, over 300 MPs who have not made it to
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The president of the National Unity Platform-NUP Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu aka Bobi Wine (pictured)has said that he has no intentions of negotiating with president Yoweri Kaguta Museveni for the release his supporters who were arrested last year. It’s exactly four months since security forces rounded up and arrested members of
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A coalition of multilateral development banks and development partners has pledged over US$17 billion in financing on Friday during a high-level forum, in a bold bid to address rising hunger on the African continent and to improve food security. These funds were pledged on the final day of a two-day
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Finance Ministry officials led by Minister, Matia Kasaija appearing before Parliament's Budget Committee The planned parish development model will be implemented with much less funds as the finance ministry agreed to slash over 290 billion shillings from its budget. The government had intended to spend over 490 billion shillings on
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