To increase employability of its students, Victoria University has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Wizarts Media, whereby the latter will offer practical digital media training to the students of the fast growing university. Speaking at the event to sign the deal at the Jinja-road based University on Thursday,
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In provisional, but almost complete results, Burundi's electoral commission has said people have voted to extend presidential terms - potentially extending current leader Pierre Nkurunziza's rule to 2034. According to the provisional results, 73.6% voted in favour, 19.3% voted against, 4.1% of the votes were void, and 3.2% abstained. More
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Police in Kawempe have arrested 29 year old Fahad Kasadha, a boda boda rider on allegations that he raped his passenger. A 19 year old teenager of German Nationality had sought motorcycle services from Fahad, to ride from a bar in Kololo to her residence in Buziga when he instead
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Fortebet, Uganda’s biggest betting company has released not only very many betting options, but also the ‘fattest’ odds for the coming Russia 2018 FIFA World Cup finals. With three weeks left, Fortebet has already posted betting options/odds for all the 48 group stages’ matches. Most interestingly, for all these matches,
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A report into a sex-for-marks scandal at Uganda's top university has found a "shocking climate of impunity". A two-month investigation into sexual harassment at Makerere University, in Kampala, found many of the perpetrators were well-known to both students and staff. But the victims were often unwilling to report harassment, fearing
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The Bank of Uganda (BoU) on Monday announced that the method of pricing treasury bills and bonds in the primary auctions will change to one of a single price from the current multiple prices with effect from July 2, 2018. In the single price method, the respective securities in the
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China will help Uganda build and operate nuclear power plants under a deal signed last week. Uganda has some uranium deposits and President Yoweri Museveni has said his government was keen to exploit them for potential nuclear energy development. Eight potential sites have been identified in the country's central, southwest
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Banking industry assets increased to Shs26.5 trillion in 2017, up from Shs22.5trillion recorded in 2016, Business Focus exclusively reports. According to 2017 financial statements for all the 24 banks obtained by this site, Stanbic is Uganda’s largest bank by assets. Its assets increased to Shs5.4 trillion in 2017, up from
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Deep Kamara, the country manager of Dangote Cement Ethiopia, has been killed by gunmen. According to reports by the Addis Standard, Reuters and several other Ethiopian news outlets, Kamara was shot dead on Wednesday afternoon by unknown assailants near the Dangote Cement Factory located some 85 kilometers west of Addis
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By Li Peng, President of Huawei Southern Africa Region. Rapid advancements in information communications technologies (ICT) over the past 20 years has substantially altered the ways in which people live, work, play and interact with one another. The World Bank’s World Development Report shows that ICT has a positive
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