Equity Bank Uganda will be hosting a dinner forum on Friday the 15th of September 2017 at Grange Tower Bridge Hotel 45 Prescot St, London E1 8GP, UK from 6:00 pm. During the dinner, the bank's Managing Director, Samuel Kirubi will be speaking on Investment Opportunities in Uganda and other East African countries. According
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The opposition on Monday re-ignited an unresolved controversial topic when its presidential candidate Raila Odinga claimed that the government administered tetanus vaccine secretly laced with a hormone said to cause infertility in women. The Daily Nation reports that Odinga claimed that the government deliberately sterilised thousands of women and girls
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Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta has said that if his rival, Raila Odinga, is elected president in the re-run election on 17 October, his party, which has a parliamentary majority, will remove him from office. BBC reports that Kenyatta, who was addressing a delegation of party supporters, said (in Swahili): "even
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After you hurt someone’s feelings or do something wrong, it turns out that saying sorry might not be the best solution. In fact, an apology might just add fuel to the fire, a recent study by researchers from Dartmouth College and the University of Texas has found. The Entrepreneur reports
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Government has said it is committed to eliminating fake religious institutions and individuals exploiting believers. Simon Lokodo, the State Minister for Ethics and Integrity, says Government has noted with concern the growing number of the different churches and efforts are being made to regulate them. Lokodo says that Government is
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Poverty and state violence, not religion, are driving young Africans to join militant groups, the United Nations said on Thursday, after interviewing almost 600 recruits. It is easiest for organisations like al-Shabaab and Boko Haram to recruit young people who are unemployed and frustrated about lack of opportunities and services
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Tanzania said on Saturday it planned to nationalise diamonds whose value it put at $29.5 million belonging to a mine majority owned by London-listed Petra Diamonds after it accused the miner of under-declaring its mineral exports. The diamonds were seized at the main airport in Tanzania’s commercial capital
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Regional supermarket giant, Nakumatt will soon become history in Uganda, a development that will leave many jobless and adversely affect the economy at large. An inside source, who preferred anonymity, confirmed to Business Focus that Nakumatt is in advanced stages of ending operations in Uganda due to unprecedented debts. “The
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Eaton Angel put up a hard fought battle to win her third Uganda Ladies Golf Open at the Kitante Golf Course. Eaton returned a score of 235 gross (76, 81, 78) to win the Ladies Open after three days of a grueling challenge. She had previously won the 2012 and
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"When I had surgery, I was not thinking that I would be anywhere near a US Open title," said Sloane Stephens. Sloane Stephens was planning to spend Saturday night in New York celebrating with Madison Keys, hours after beating her friend to a first Grand Slam title. The 24-year-old American,
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