Captain Pete Thomas (pictured above) is an instructor/examiner at Uganda Airlines, Uganda’s national carrier taking the aviation sector by storm. Captain Thomas brings to the table a solid professional background having been both in the military and commercial sectors of aviation. He served in the UK Royal Navy, flying and instructing on a
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Captain Kennedy Udeze (pictured) is a pilot with Uganda Airlines, the country’s national carrier. A graduate from the CAE/Oxford Aviation Academy in Copenhagen , Denmark, and the South African Flight Training Academy in Heidelberg South Africa, Captain Kennedy brings to the table a strong work ethic and positive attitude. He is keen
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Tina was the first copilot at Uganda Airlines to successfully complete the type rating training on the A330 in Miami ,Florida. Tina Drazu is a Senior First Officer (co-pilot) with Uganda Airlines. She graduated from Cape Flying Services in George South Africa in 2010 before going on to start her flying career
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First Officer Vanita Kayiwa Ugandan women are rising in top positions in various areas. In aviation industry, women are doing a great job. Vanita Kayiwa, a First Officer (also known as second pilot in aviation) at Uganda Airlines is making Uganda proud globally. Kayiwa graduated from the East African Civil Aviation Academy
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The panelists during the deep dive discussion chronicling UBL's 75-year journey of socioeconomic contributions to Uganda Uganda Breweries Limited (UBL) has has paid Shs7.4 trillion in taxes to Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) in its 75 years of operating in Uganda. This is what over three Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) of government
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Daniel Elaju and his Teacher, Musilem Bagalaliwa in Soroti. Daniel Elaju, the best visually impaired student in last year’s Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education Examination- UACE, says that he wanted to do a medical course but his sight failed him.Elaju scored 20 points in History, Literature in English and Divinity
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Bwalya Katongo/BBC A university graduate in Zambia has found work in the air force, after he spent years selling charcoal because jobs were so scarce. Bwalya Katongo graduated from the University of Zambia with a degree in Library and Information Studies in 2015 then tried in vain to get a
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AGT’s banana plantings ready for transplanting By David Rupiny In the early 2000s, coffee and banana farmers faced a huge problem of bacterial wilt disease, which wiped out swathes of plantations across the country, especially in central and western parts of Uganda. “It was like a bush-fire sweeping across the countryside,”
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Light Over Light Capital (LOLC) Finance Uganda, which offers finance and technological solutions to agriculture in rural areas is now spreading its wings across Africa. Based in Kisoro district - Uganda, the company now has more than 600 customers and 4000 users across Rwanda, DRC, Kenya and Nigeria. “We saw
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Amos Wekesa is passionate about tourism and now agribusiness Known as the poster child for tourism in Uganda, Amos Wekesa had it made in tourism, until the disruptions occasioned by the Covid-19 pandemic forced him to diversify. In this interview, Wekesa speaks, verbatim, about diversifying from tourism into agro-processing, the intersectionality
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