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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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
Read MoreSave the Children has denied allegations labeled against it by its former employee- Jimmy Kato Nyombi, who claims that he was sacked due to his HIV positive status. This site recently published a story in which Nyombi made the above allegations. We promised to publish Save the Children’s side of
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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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Pan-African Bank-Ecobank won the Best Digital Strategy Award at the Retail Banker International’s prestigious awards ceremony held at the Waldorf Hilton Hotel in London last week. Ecobank’s digital strategy leverages digitalisation for scale and ubiquity and is the key plank in its ambition to be the top consumer financial services
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Uganda’s leading power distributor, Umeme has revealed that it isn’t panicking over the uncertainty surrounding its contract renewal. The remarks were made by Patrick Bitature, the Umeme Board Chairman while addressing the press at Sheraton Hotel on Thursday after the company’s Annual General Meeting (AGM). “We are not in panic
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dfcu bank Chief of Business & Executive Director, William Sekabembe has revealed that banks that will not invest in technology are set to become obsolete. “Our commitment is to invest in technology. If banks don’t invest in technology, they will become irrelevant,” Sekabembe said, adding: “We are enhancing our technology
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