Ethiopian Airlines Group hit another major milestone after British flight auditing company Skytrax feted it with a 4-Star ranking in London on November 8. The airline company received the certification, which the Chief Executive Officer Tewolde GebreMariam attributed to their surge in delivering quality services to their clients over the
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The nine winners of the MTN Innovation Awards 2017 have Thursday been given their cash prizes from MTN Uganda. The nine winners picked their cash prizes totaling $27,000 (Shs97.2) during a handover ceremony and interaction with the MTN Uganda Chief Marketing Officer, Olivier Prentout. The nine came top at the
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The Forbes recently published a list of 30 under 30 celebrities turning fame into a force for change. Madina Nalwanga, 17 year old Ugandan made it to the list of these stars set to who a great future in 2018. But who is she? Born in Kampala, Uganda, Nalwanga was
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African Leadership Academy and Mastercard Foundation are pleased to announce that 22 year old, Ibrahima Ben Aziz Konate from Cote D'Ivoire has been awarded the top prize at the seventh annual Anzisha Prize awards gala. Ibrahima Ben Aziz is the founder of Poultry D'Or, a poultry business that often has
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Ignatius Ahumuza, 21, a Ugandan entrepreneur has won US$10,000 (Shs36.4m) Anzisha Prize at Africa’s premier awards for youngest entrepreneurs held on October 24, 2017 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Ahumuza is among the fifteen (15) young African entrepreneurs who emerged as finalists from a field of more than 800 applicants for
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He didn’t go to a technical school to study carpentry, but his works speak volumes because he learnt on the job. Hakim Zziwa, in his 30s, is Managing Director of Ambakezi, a family owned Carpentry Company worth Shs70M. The carpentry workshop is based at their home in Kawaala – Kasubi,
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Hajji Hassan Katende and his wife Nassali Janat Katende are quite an admirable couple and family, thanks to the transformation they have undergone in recent years. Although they are located in Kaberebere Town Council, Isingiro district, they are economically very far compared to many Kampala dwellers. “We were not badly
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The whole village of Buwenge in Jinja district recently gathered to welcome Middle East Consultants (MEC) bosses led by Managing Director, Gordon Mugyenyi. This is because one family in the village has been transformed economically in recent years after MEC took its two daughters to Middle East for jobs. [caption
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Uganda Securities Exchange (USE) on Wednesday launched the ‘USE University Challenge’ in a bid to inculcate an investment culture among students in Universities across the country. The Challenge seeks to give the youth a platform to trade and understand how to invest in shares and bonds listed on the bourse.
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Dickson Mugonjo, 26, grew up in poverty in the hilly areas of Bukinda Sub-County in Kabale district (now Rukiga district). He worked hard to ensure that he changed this status-quo. And when the opportunity came knocking for him to go work abroad through Middle East Consultants- the leading labour exporting
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