The IMF team met with President William Ruto A staff team from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) led by Mary Goodman and Tobias Rasmussen, visited Nairobi from October 25 –November 8 to discuss progress on reforms and the authorities’ policy priorities in the context of the fourth reviews of Kenya’s economic
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Embattled Dr. Nafiu Lukman Abiodun Dr. Nafiu Lukman Abiodun, the Head Department of Economics and Statistics in the Faculty of Economics and Management Sciences at Kabale University has been sacked after being found guilty of sexual harassment. Abiodun, a Nigerian national is also the director of research at the university.
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Mapeera House, the Centenary Bank Headquarters. The bank started from the bottom in 1983 as a Credit Trust of the Uganda National Lay Apostolate, transforming into a full-service commercial bank in 1993, and by 2018 had risen to become, Uganda’s second largest bank by deposits, lending, assets and profitability. Centenary
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Masaka City Headteachers Association-MACHA has petitioned the Speaker of Parliament Anita Among to support their demand for universal sponsorship for upgrading teachers as the government commences the implementation of reforms in the national teachers’ policy. Last year, the Ministry of Education and Sports announced the implementation of the national teachers’
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URA CG, John Rujoki Musinguzi poses for a photo with AEO partners at a conference held at Speke Resort Hotel in Munyonyo on Friday. Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) is deploying Authorized Economic Operation (AEO) program as one of the tools used to optimise resource utilisation. The AEO is a strategic
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MTN Uganda’s Chief Finance Officer, Andrew Bugembe (R) and URA Commissioner General, John Musinguzi, displays the AEO certificate awarded to MTN Uganda at Speke Resort, Munyonyo, on November 11, 2022. MTN Uganda has been awarded a certificate of recognition from the Uganda Revenue Authority granting it special customs status as
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Local Council officials in Arua City are on the spot for allegedly recommending non-Ugandans to the National Identification Registration Authority (NIRA) to obtain National Identity cards-IDs. According to City authorities, non-citizens especially Congolese and South Sudan nationals often pay a bribe of between Shillings 50,000 to 200,000 to LCs for
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Some of the winners pose with the Award at the FiRe Awards dinner on Wednesday evening. The President of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants (ICPAU), Constant Othieno Mayende has said that “accountants are best placed to lead on ESG (Environment and Social Governance) matters” because of the “broad range
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An electric bus, a make of Kiira Motors Corporation. A scientist at Busitema University has invented a battery derived from biomass-based materials and common salt. This kind of battery is likely to be a game-changer for Uganda as it ventures into Electric Vehicle (EVs) manufacture. Currently, over 60% of the
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IGG, Beti Kamya. Unidentified people have demolished a poorly built pit latrine at Kabei primary school in Bukwo district, days after officers from the Inspectorate of Government-IG inspected it. On Monday, a team from the IG headquarters in Kampala visited the school and took pictures of the Shillings 28million sinking
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