A Ugandan innovator has won a top Africa innovation award, walking away with US$50,000 (Shs180.49m). Geoffrey Ssekatawa, the founder of Brent Technologies, a lubricant collection and recycling company was 12 winners of the African Entrepreneurship Award 2017 supported by AfriBMCE Bank of Africa. In its 3rd edition, African Entrepreneurship Award
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Kenyan born Harvard University Professor, Calestous Juma has passed on in Boston following a battle with cancer. There has been an out pouring of grief for the Kenyan academic and social media influencer Juma. Just like he did alive, he continues to provoke social media reaction across the board even
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Thieves have broken into the cyber unit offices of the Internal Security Organisation (ISO) in Uganda and reportedly made off with a hard disk containing information on the some of the country's high profile murders. [caption id="attachment_6995" align="alignnone" width="595"] Joan Kagezi[/caption] According to reports, the thugs who identity is yet
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Details why eight MPs on the Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee drafted a minority report on the proposed scrapping of the constitutional age limits have emerged. The MPs on the Legal Committee opposed to amending Article 102 (b) in order to allow a person above 75 years of age as
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In a bid to promote cashless banking by encouraging increased usage of debit and credit cards, Stanbic Bank Uganda today held a trolley dash for three lucky frequent Visa and MasterCard users off the Stanbic card machines in a promo dubbed “Merry Madness”. The three lucky customers Gad Rogers Tusiiime,
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Women are typically less happy than men until they are 85-years-old, a new NHS survey has found. According to psychiatrists, this might be because they have been widowed by that age, The Times reports. The survey of 8,000 British adults also revealed that women are more likely than men to
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The Pay As You Earn (PAYE) tax year-end is looming in most East African territories, and governments are clamping down on non-compliance among businesses and individual taxpayers as they strive to raise more funding for public spending. That means businesses must ensure that their payrolls are fully compliant with the
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By Livingstone Mukasa You could well say I am not a festivity person. Periods like Birthdays, wedding anniversaries and thanksgivings bring me apprehension, but the Christmas season is here, so I have to behave. As a country that celebrates consumerism and show offs (we should work to change this), Christmas
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Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has revealed that salaries of science teachers in secondary schools across the country be increased with immediate effect. The President revealed this at a retreat of secondary school heads at State House, Entebbe on Wednesday. "Officiated at the closure of a two-day retreat for secondary school
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The United States has imposed economic sanctions on two Africans accused of using the illegal ivory trade to funnel weapons and money to Joseph Kony and the Lord’s Resistance Army. Okut Lukwang, a Ugandan serving as an LRA intelligence officer, and Musa Hatari, a Sudanese merchant, are the two individuals
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