By Drake Nyamugabwa The State Minister for Tourism Godfrey Kiwanda has applauded the construction of a new-5 star hotel at Ssese Island on Lake Victoria by property mogul Sudhir Ruparelia, saying the new development will go a long way in boosting Uganda’s tourism sector. Kiwanda says Uganda needs more hotels
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How much is Kenyan Deputy President William Ruto worth? That question took about two minutes of an interview Dr Ruto did with the BBC that was aired on Tuesdayand Kenya’s second-in-command just fell short of saying he would not reveal the extent of his wealth. In a wide-ranging conversation with
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Franco-Gabonese entrepreneur Nicolas Pompigne-Mognard is the founder of the APO Group, a leading media consulting firm and press release distribution service in Africa and the Middle East. The company, which Pompigne-Mognard founded in 2007, employs close to 80 employees across its offices in Switzerland, Dubai, Senegal and Hong Kong, and has
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Airtel Uganda has responded to subscribers’ questions on the controversial data OTT packs launched on November 12, 2018. In a statement, Airtel said Uganda’s first-ever data OTT packs will ‘enable subscribers to enjoy undisrupted connectivity by simply subscribing once and getting both data and OTT of the same validity’. Data
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Doris Akol (in featured photo) was first appointed Commissioner General of Uganda Revenue Authority in October 2014. She was definitely headed for a daunting task considering the fact that she was replacing Allen Kagina, the ‘lady’ who had literally become the image of URA. Under Kagina’s leadership, URA became one
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While people will always need banking and other financial services, how they interact with and access these services has changed dramatically with the advent of technology. We spoke to William Sekabembe (in featured photo), Chief of Business and Executive Director at dfcu Bank who gave us key take aways from
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Many people around the world are familiar with Aliko Dangote, a Nigerian who is often described as Africa's richest man. But Isabel dos Santos (in featured photo), 45, an Angolan businesswoman, is Africa's richest woman and the eldest child of Angola’s former President José Eduardo dos Santos, who was in
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Middle East Consultants Ltd (MECL), Uganda’s leading labour recruitment and exporting agency has revealed that it will soon start exporting Ugandans to China for lucrative jobs. This was revealed by MECL Managing Director, Gordon Mugyenyi in an exclusive interview with Business Focus at the sidelines of the National Symposium and
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Abdul Katumba, 36, was a boda boda rider in Kampala. He could only manage to feed his family from his tiresome job, leaving him with a number of financial issues. He couldn’t continue with this situation lest he would die a poor man! When opportunity knocked, he couldn’t resist grabbing
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Robert Kyagulanyi, a Ugandan pop star-turned-opposition politician whose detention last month drew international attention, has called on the United States to stop supporting his country's military. In an exclusive sit-down interview with Al Jazeera, his first for television since receiving treatment at a hospital in the US, the 36-year-old, who also goes by the
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