By Ben Sebuguzi In 1992, when government allowed the growing of flowers,few people would no that the floriculture sector would grow and become our top ten foreign exchange earner contributing close to $30m in export revenues to our motherland Uganda according to Juliet Musoke, the Executive Director Uganda Flower Exports
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President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni launched the Expert National Task Force on the Fourth World Industrial Revolution (4IR) on 8th April 2019, at State House Entebbe. The president’s message to the team and Ugandans was, be optimistic but cautious: Move carefully as we embrace the New Technologies popularly referred to as
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Climate change can't be halted if we carry on degrading the soil, a report will say. There's three times more carbon in the soil than in the atmosphere – but that carbon's being released by deforestation and poor farming. This is fuelling climate change – and compromising our attempts to
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Dear my elusive, horrible, foe. How are you doing nowadays? Why are you rare in Uganda’s 6% growing economy? It’s now 1/3 of a whole year now since I last held you in my hands and oh! How I have suffered without you, longed for you, dreamt of you and
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President Yoweri Museveni has revealed why the revived Uganda Airlines will not collapse. “Why do I think the new baby will survive? There are four clientele constituencies that will support this business; Ugandans in the diaspora, families of Asians of Ugandan descent expelled by Idi Amin, our business people here
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Imagine sitting down and having a conversation with an ultra-successful self-made billionaire like Warren Buffett, Mark Cuban or Oprah Winfrey. What could you learn if you spent an afternoon with Richard Branson (in featured photo) or Bill Gates? Can you imagine all the interesting tidbits or helpful advice they might
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By Ben Sebuguzi Currently, one of the trending news stories is the issuance of investment license to Together Pharma, an Israel firm to grow marijuana by Uganda Investment Authority (UIA), a government agency mandated to issue licenses to investors. To many of us who are well wishers of our country,
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NBS TV’s Marbel Twegumye Zaake on 13th April 2019 had an interview on the theme Spirituality and politics; she hosted a youthful, light skinned lady whose name I remember as Grace Maluya, who claimed to be a prophetic evangelist and daughter to Prophet Elvis Mbonye. She went on to say
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Government of Uganda borrows funds from the public. Bank of Uganda (BoU) is an Agent of Government to collect money (since 1969). The public/lenders place funds with government through their Central Securities Depository (CSD) accounts opened at BOU. The following are the instruments auctioned and used for fiscal purposes (prior
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Are you planning to join the business of exporting items to East African Community countries? This is a perfect guide on the lucrative exportable items that are fetching Uganda billions of shillings. Did you know that beans are Uganda’s leading export to East African Community (EAC) member countries? Well, according
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