By Katusiime Kellen The continued recovery of Uganda’s economy last year contributed to the strong performance of MTN Uganda in 2018. MTN Uganda’s revenue in 2018 grew by 8.6% due to increased voice calls, data usage and MTN Mobile Money. Uganda’s economy is estimated to have grown by 5.3% in
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The police in its disciplinary court sitting of Thursday, 21st March 2019, charged 17 officers with the disciplinary offence of disobedience of lawful orders. The misconduct arose when on the 13th January 2019, they without good and sufficient cause neglected and omitted to report for a training course at Police
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The Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga is steadily improving and is now able to speak to her visitors, local news agency, URN reports. Kadaga was hospitalized at Nakasero Hospital on Thursday over fatigue related illness following her return from trips in New York, USA and Rabat, Morocco. A statement
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Ethiopian Airlines will work with investigators in Ethiopia, the United States and elsewhere “to figure out what went wrong with flight 302”, the airline’s CEO Tewolde Gebremariam said on Monday. His pledge follows reports the investigation was under strain because information about the March 10 crash, which killed 157 people,
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A science teacher from rural Kenya, who gives away most of his salary to support poorer pupils, has won a $1m prize (UShs3.7 billion) for the world's best teacher, BBC reports. Peter Tabichi, a member of the Franciscan religious order, won the 2019 Global Teacher Prize. Brother Peter has been
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Nedbank’s headline earnings in the year to end-December rose 14.5% to R13.5bn thanks to the turnaround of its Togo-based associate company, Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ETI), Business Day reports. “In 2018, Nedbank Group seamlessly concluded the process of managed separation from Old Mutual and delivered a resilient financial performance, boosted by
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Mayuge Resident District Commissioner, James Shilaku has suspended three State House field officers attached to Kityerera state lodge over missing pigs, URN reports. They are Sarah Kawuma, Waitah Atim and Moses Basoga. Shilaku suspended the trio following a directive from State House to investigate circumstances surrounding the disappearance of
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In a bid to respond to the national need of safe blood, Goldstar Insurance has partnered with Nakasero Blood Bank to rally Ugandans donate blood. The blood donation drive is slated for 29th March 2019 at City Square starting from morning up to evening hours at raising Uganda’s blood units.
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Picture this: Your friend asks you to guarantee his/her sacco loan. You automatically agree because you know him/her well. Besides, the sacco is known to be flexible with defaulters. Sadly, things don’t go according to plan, life gets tough and your friend defaults. But his/her assets are not enough to
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The Federation of Uganda Football Associations (FUFA) President Eng Moses Magogo (in featured photo) has described Uganda Cranes disappointing 3-0 loss away to Tanzania in the final AFCON 2019 group L qualifier as the worst result under his administration. Despite the loss, the Cranes ended the qualification campaign top of
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