Speaking at the Youth Konnekt Forum in Cape Verde yesterday, African investor and philanthropist, Tony O. Elumelu, Founder of the Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) and Chairman, United Bank for Africa (UBA), charged entrepreneurs to embrace hard work, discipline and sacrifice on their entrepreneurial journey to success. He addressed over young
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Kafeero Foundation, a social enterprise organization, is holding its first Business Design Week boot-camp between October 15 and 19 in Kampala, at its new home the Mfano Design LAB at Muyenga. Dubbed ‘Mfano Business Design Week’, the event is focuing on the development of innovative business designs and strategies. Social
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Wilmat Development Foundation in partnership with different companies and governments agencies have embarked on providing students in Universities across the country with investment and business skills so that they can create own jobs during and after studies. During a public dialogue held at Makerere University Business School on Monday, The
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One word you are most likely to find in media reports about Sir Jim Ratcliffe, the British tycoon whose company sponsored Eliud Kipchoge’s Ineos 1:59 Challenge, is “reclusive”. This is because Ratcliffe is such a publicity-shy man that even the notoriously aggressive journalists from his home country find it hard
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A number of Ugandans don’t know that one can accumulate wealth through investing in various asset classes regulated by the Capital Markets Authority. In fact, low and middle income earners as well as Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) wrongly believe that Capital Markets are designed for wealthy individuals and giant
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Ugandan siblings Esther and Ezekiel Mutesasira (pictured) have been crowned the winners of the first edition of East Africa's Got Talent in a contest that drew participation from four regional countries. The singing duo won a cash prize of $50,000 (UShs184m) in the Sunday night finale that had six contestants.
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Over 400 women entrepreneurs have benefited from a business training in Kampala organised by dfcu bank in partnership with Daily Monitor and Uganda Investment Authority. This marks the climax of a series of Business trainings that have been running across the country under the Rising Woman Initiative regional tours in
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The 27th Uganda International trade Fair which started on Wednesday 2nd through Thursday 10th October 2019 at Uganda Manufacturers Association (UMA) showground, will be officially opened on 7th October 2019 by President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni as guest of honor. The trade show has attracted more foreign exhibitors from countries including
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Tourism industry is a key foreign exchange earner for Uganda. Tourism is no doubt one of the main sectors of the economy. According to the Uganda Bureau of Statistics, Uganda received 1.8 million tourists in 2018, up from 1.4 million in 2017. In 2017, the 1.4 million arrivals injected about
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Ugandan investigative reporter and news anchor Solomon Serwanjja (pictured) has won the 2019 BBC World News Komla Dumor Award. Serwanjja is a presenter at Uganda's NBS TV, where he hosts one of the channel's prime-time shows. He has also produced award-winning reports, including one for BBC's Africa Eye programme about
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