For the first time, I want to eat a frog and a fat one at that to fulfill Chinua Achebe’s things fall apart. No rational Mumasaba can be happy with any explanation on Cabinet’s discriminative decision for the delay of Mbale city up to 1st July, 2021 and did I
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Uganda’s banking sector has 24 operating commercial banks. However, the market is controlled by a few banks going by the 2018 financial results analyzed by Business Focus. For example, the top five most profitable banks including Stanbic, Centenary, Standard Chartered, Bank of Baroda and Barclays have a total market share
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By Ben Sebuguzi Buildings are wealth of the country in terms of physical built Assets which contribute to National development. On Sunday 19, May 2019, it was pomp and glamour as another magnificent property, Kampala Kingdom was added on the list of the properties owned by Ruparelia Group. The business
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Discussions about job growth in the U.S. tend to focus on industries such as technology and health care. But the biggest boom may be happening in cannabis. Even though cannabis use in some form is legal in only two-thirds of the states, our burgeoning industry is among the fastest-growing job
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“No junk, no processed foods. Eat green, eat Africa, beat hospital traps and dump the doctor’s price cards altogether” was the theme of the Symposium where I was recently privileged to share my experiences of the strict, healthy African balanced diet menu that I designed for the UPDF’s generals in
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Know whether your business is making money. One of the most important financial concepts you'll need to learn in running your new business is the computation of gross profit, and the tool you use to maintain gross profit is markup. The gross profit on a product is computed as follows:
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Uganda’s banking sector continues to recover from turbulent times as witnessed by the increase in profits, lending, customer deposits as well as a reduction in Non-Performing Loans (NPLs) and bad loans written off. According to the Bank of Uganda (BoU), the ratio of NPLs to total loans in the banking
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KCB Group chief executive officer Joshua Oigara earned KSh273 million (UShs10.2 billion) in salary, bonus and allowances in 2018, a year when Kenya’s biggest bank by assets announced a record net profit, Business Daily reports. Mr Oigara’s 6.6 percent (UShs634.5bn) pay increase mainly came in the form of a higher
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The Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) has released a list of ten crops where farmers last year earned a better price than others. The list, contained in the new Producer Price Index (PPI) for agriculture released on Thursday, is first-time of its kind by UBOS and the twelfth in Africa.
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It’s pretty incredible how often you hear managers complaining about their best employees leaving, and they really do have something to complain about—few things are as costly and disruptive as good people walking out the door. But managers tend to blame their turnover problems on everything under the sun while
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