The recent mishap in the on-line Banking software have raised more questions than answers regarding the true ownership of the banking software. Sources within the banking industry say that several banks recently experienced issues in the agency/mobile banking platform, whereby those who had taken loans using their mobile banking app
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Barbra Teddy Arimi, NSSF's Head of Marketing & Communications and Richard Byarugaba, the NSSF MD during the media briefing The National Social Security Fund (NSSF) comprehensive income for the 2020/21 Financial Year increased by 25% from UGX 1.472 Trillion to UGX 1.84 Trillion, despite the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, Managing Director Richard Byarugaba announced today. Addressing the media at the
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Laboratory workers supervise the production of the Sinovac vaccine, produced by Vacsera, in Cairo. Photographer: Khaled Desouki/AFP/Getty Images Egypt will start shipping locally-made Covid-19 vaccines to other African nations in the next month and a half, Health Minister Hala Zayed said Thursday. Addressing reporters in the capital, Cairo, she didn’t give further details
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Some of the affected pineapples Pineapple farmers in the Ntungamo district have decried a disease that has hit their gardens. The disease called mealybug bacteria has been reported in Nyongozi parish in Nyamukana Town Council and affects the plant with small insects that put a web cover leaving it to
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The President of the National Unity Platform -NUP, Kyagulanyi Robert Ssentamu aka Bobi Wine (pictured) has been stopped from travelling to the United States of America to attend his party’s activities over COVID-19 concerns.In a statement on his social media platform (Facebook), Kyagulnyi said yesterday he left Uganda for the
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Betty Tiisa Asalirwa is working as a production trainee at CiplaQCIL In Uganda about 37% of the of the pupils who complete primary school education do not progress to secondary according to World Bank’s 13th report titled: Economic Update on Human Capital in Uganda released in 2019. This is due to a number
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The late Dr Hajj Bulaimu Muwanga Kibirige (BMK) By Denis Jjuuko When Idi Amin expelled the Asians in 1972, Ugandans such as the late Dr Hajj Bulaimu Muwanga Kibirige (BMK) saw an opportunity. There was scarcity of goods in Kampala yet they were plenty in other towns. On a trip
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Jason Quinn, Absa Interim Group Chief Executive Absa Group Limited, one of the largest diversified financial services providers in Africa, plans to implement a second significant broad-based black economic empowerment (B-BBEE) transaction as part of its broader efforts to achieve transformation in a meaningful and sustainable way. “The planned transaction
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President Yoweri Museveni Uganda is aiming to vaccinate at least six million people against Covid - more than 10% of its population - by the end of the year before schools can reopen. About 4.8 million of these are categorised as high priority, and they include health workers, teachers, students
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Architectural design of Hoima International Airport The Ministry of Works and Transport has blamed the slow progress on the construction works of Hoima (Kabaale) International Airport on the failure by the Ministry of Finance to avail over Shs319bn for the construction project. This was disclosed by Fred Byamukama, State Minister for
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