On the 1st of January 2019, at 12am, WAT, the Tony Elumelu Foundation will begin accepting applications for the fifth cycle of its Entrepreneurship Programme. 1,000 selected applicants will join the current 4,470 beneficiaries of the Programme. Since 2015, the TEF Entrepreneurship Programme – the only African-funded entrepreneurial catalyst of
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Cassava cultivation is an annual activity for many farmers both in Uganda and other Cassava growing Countries. This is basically because it is a major commodity first in the diet of many farming families and secondly because of its resilience even in very bad weather condition. However, good cassava cultivation
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It’s now official that Kenya's Harambee Stars have qualified for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) slated for June 15 to July 11. This is after the Confederation of African Football (Caf) disqualified Sierra Leone last Friday following an Extraordinary Executive Committee meeting in Accra, Ghana. The West African
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The Uganda Revenue Authority will this month unveil its fancy Headquarters (in featured photo) located in Nakawa, Business Focus understands. The state-of-the-art building is divided into four podiums and eighteen tower floors totaling to 26,021 square metres. The Shs139bn project is fully funded by the Government of Uganda. It includes
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The Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI) has been certified to perform yellow fever regional reference lab functions in the Arbovirology department that supports yellow fever diagnostic surveillance. This makes UVRI the only certified Yellow fever reference laboratory in Eastern Africa and the second in the African Region, the other being
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Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) collected gross revenue totaling to Shs1.37 trillion in October 2018 against a target of Shs1.29 trillion. This implies that the tax body registered an impressive gross surplus of Shs79.28bn. According to information obtained from URA, net revenue collection for the month of October 2018 totaled to
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Denise Coates (in featured photo), the British founder and chief executive officer of online bookmaker Bet365 Group Ltd., is more than 10 times richer than Queen Elizabeth II on the back of the bookmaker’s latest accounts. Coates, 51, has a net worth of $4.5 billion thanks to her majority stake
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Stanbic Bank has today awarded graduation certificates to 420 entrepreneurs from 119 Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) through its business incubator. This is the second cohort to graduate since the incubator was launched earlier this year. Cohort one saw 94 entrepreneurs from 34 businesses graduate; thereforemaking a 2018 total of
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Uganda is the most preferred investment destination by Kenyan small and medium enterprises looking to expand outside the country, a new report says. The 2018 annual Top 100 survey by Nation Media Group and KPMG shows that 78 per cent of local SMEs have opened branches in Uganda, 59 per
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Irish potatoes is one of the crops that can easily make one a millionaire-only if they do the right thing. In Uganda, Irish potato growing is increasingly becoming commercial, thanks to the growing demand resulting from the increase in townships, population and hospitality industry. For farmers looking to venture into
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