The Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) are now able to get free accountancy services from professionals, under an initiative aimed at ensuring improved financial management for better business operations. The move by the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Uganda (ICPAU) aims to assists MSMEs recover from the effects of
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Miranda Bageine Musoke_Head Personal and Business Banking dfcu Bank dfcu Bank recently launched an unsecured salary loan campaign designed to respond to customers who may need a quick financial boost with a quick turnaround time for personal use. Dubbed “It’s Win-Win with a dfcu Salary Loan”, the campaign is set to run for
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Late Speaker Jacob Oulanyah's unfinished mansion in Omoro District/Courtesy Photo President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has committed to pay the school fees for the children of Jacob Oulanyah, the fallen Speaker of Parliament. The President made the commitment while meeting the Greater North Parliamentary Forum representatives at State House Nakasero
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Ugandan women have been advised to look at the so-called 'kameeza' money as a source of investible capital. Kameeza is a daily small cash allowance that typical Ugandan husbands leave their wives with in the morning before they go to work. Some smart women have become rich by saving small
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The first batch of bulk materials arrived at the project site-Hu Weijie By Gao Yi & Tian Yu The Uganda Investment Authority has awarded CNOOC Uganda Limited the FID (Final Investment Decision) Appreciation Award for the Lake Albert development project. The company has been ramping up efforts to develop the
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Jamil Ssekyondwa on handcuffs before he was set free The Luwero Chief Magistrate Court has dismissed a case against a man who allegedly circulated fake news that President Yoweri Museveni had died. Jamir Ssekyondwa 23, a resident of Kabunyata trading centre in Kamira sub-county, Luwero district has been on
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The Former Accountant at OPM Geoffrey Kazinda. The Court of Appeal in Kampala has quashed the 15 years’ jail term handed to the former Principal Accountant at the Office of Prime Minister, Geoffrey Kazinda for illicit enrichment. Instead, the Court comprised of Justices Fredrick Egonda Ntende, Christopher Madrama and Catherine
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Judicial officers have been asked to support the survival of companies in distress instead of issuing decisions that lead to their extinction. This comes as companies continue to struggle to pay off bank loans and other obligations like suppliers and salary arrears and other lagging effects of the pandemic.
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African Development Bank Group President Dr. Akinwumi A. Adesina (pictured) told women at a conference in Pretoria on Wednesday that they are part of a revolution that is building across Africa. The head of Africa’s premier development lending institution was speaking at the virtual Women Heads of State Initiative, a new
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A new World Health Organization (WHO) report on understanding mistreatment of women during childbirth shows mothers that show up to deliver with labor companions are less likely to suffer health facility-based mistreatment. The report which combines five studies was published on Wednesday in the BMJ Global Health journal and
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