The First Lady and Minister for Education and Sports, Janet Museveni has called on students and Ugandans at large to embrace valuable skills outside classroom. Janet revealed this while launching the 2017 Africa Debate Championships hosted by Mengo Senior Secondary School in Kampala Thursday. “African countries have succeeded in increasing
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Standard Chartered Bank (StanChart) and MTN Uganda Limited have signed an agreement to allow MTN Mobile Money collections for Corporate and Business clients directly into their Standard Chartered Bank accounts on a real time basis.This solution is dubbed Straight2Bank Wallet Collections and will be delivered through the Bank’s Straight2Bankelectronic banking
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North Korea has fired a ballistic missile across Japan, creating new tension in the region after its nuclear bomb test less than two weeks ago. The missile reached an altitude of about 770km (478 miles), travelling 3,700km before landing in the sea off Hokkaido, South Korea's military says. It flew
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One of China's biggest Bitcoin exchanges has said it will stop trading, after a government warning over virtual currencies, BBC reports. BTCC said it would stop buying and selling on 30 September in response to tightening regulation. It comes after authorities banned initial coin offerings on 5 September. The country
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Africa’s economic giants, Nigeria, South Africa and Egypt, have been stumbling recently. Rising security risks and political instability in Egypt, economic downturn and militancy in Nigeria and escalating political risks in South Africa led to doubts whether the balance between risks and opportunities in these markets is still favourable for
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Government of Uganda Thursday signed a Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) and issued a License for Petroleum Exploration, Development and Production over the Kanywataba Contract Area with Armour Energy Limited (AEL) from Australia. Speaking during the Ceremony held at Amber House in Kampala, Eng. Irene Muloni, Minister of Energy and Mineral
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NRM MPs supporting the removal of Presidential age cap say they are not intimidated by attacks from rebel MPs, opposition and the general public. Addressing the press at Parliament on Thursday, the MPs told off those opposing removal of age limit that they are all equal and above all they
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A Kenyan MP from the governing Jubilee Party has filed a petition seeking the removal of Chief Justice David Maraga, accusing him of orchestrating a "judicial coup" by leading the Supreme Court judges to annul President Uhuru Kenyatta's win in the 8 August election, the Nation reports. Ngunjiri Wambugu wants the
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Bobi Wine, one of Uganda's top musicians who in June became an MP, has released a spoken word track lambasting the governing party's MPs who have backed a call to remove presidential age limits. This change would allow President Yoweri Museveni, who has been in power for 31 years, to
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The Deputy Speaker of Parliament Jacob Oulanyah has reiterated that legislators should not discuss the Presidential Age Limit. Oulanyah who was chairing the house on Wednesday stated that discussion of things outside of the parliament is misguided and uncalled for. His statement came after Mukono Municipality MP Betty Nambooze questioned
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