Police have uprooted a three-acre farm of marijuana in Bulwanyi, Ssisa Subcounty,Wakiso District and have arrested two suspected cultivators. The two suspects arrested are Umar Ssentongo aged 28 years and Hakim Kibwiika aged 35 yrs believed to be involved in the cultivation of the illicit drugs and are being questioned
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President Yoweri Museveni has revealed how he earns Shs64m from half an acre. “I encourage all of you to Invest in fish farming. I get Shs.64 million from four fish ponds at my farm in Kawumu in half an acre. If we don’t utilize our resources, we are denying God’s
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It was joy over the weekend as Fortebet rewarded its customers in Gulu town with lots goodies. All customers that were found in all Fortebet centres which include; Gulu main, Buganda pub, Gulu SB & Gulu, Gulu Amigos, Gulu Layibi and Lacor got various gifts ranging from company pens, wristbands,
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The MTN Group on March 8, 2018 released financial results for 2017. The results indicate that at 31 December 2017, MTN Group had 217 million subscribers based on the “new modernised definitions”. We will provide comparisons for full year 2018 using the new base. The results further indicate that MTN
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Employees of the troubled retailer Nakumatt have moved to court seeking to stop the planned lay-off of 1,400 workers, Business Daily reports. In a suit filed on their behalf by the Kenya Union of Commercial, Food and Allied Workers (Kucfaw), the workers say the firm’s receiver had signalled his intention
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The Uganda shilling weakened on the back of significant demand for dollars from commercial banks squaring their positions, and elevated import demand during the week ending 9th March 2018. Trading was in the range 3652/3662, ten shillings above last week's closing range. In the interbank money market, overnight funds traded
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Tanzania’s President John Magufuli has ordered the country’s central bank not to bail out any struggling banks as East Africa’s third-largest economy tries to control rising bad debts in the sector. A spike in non-performing loans over the past two years has hit local bank profits and choked off new
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US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has cancelled scheduled events in Kenya on Saturday because he is feeling poorly. "The secretary is not feeling well after a long couple days working on major issues back home such as North Korea," the state department said. Mr Tillerson, on his first official
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Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has held talks with opposition leader Raila Odinga in the capital Nairobi. This is the first time the two rivals are meeting since last year's contested elections. "Had the great pleasure of welcoming my brotherRaila Odinga to Harambee House where we had the opportunity for extensive discussions
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A Manchester-based author whose debut novel was initially rejected by British publishers has won one of the world's richest literary prizes. Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi - who's from Uganda and moved to the UK 17 years ago - has won one of the Windham Campbell Prizes from Yale University in the
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