Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) officials were on Wednesday grilled for deducting National Social Security Fund (NSSF) money on staff salaries without remitting it to the Fund. The officials led by KCCA, Deputy Executive Director, Sam Serukuuma were appearing before the Parliamentary Committee on Commissions, Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises
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Coca-Cola Co (KO.N) reported a 60.2 percent drop in quarterly profit, as the beverage maker incurred a charge of $653 million related to refranchising its North America bottling operations. Reuters reports that net income attributable to Coca-Cola's shareholders fell to $1.37 billion, or 32 cents per share, in the second
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Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has mastered the art of using young talent to cement his leadership in the East African nation. Today we present part II of the list of youths who work for Museveni to achieve this goal. The article below has been circulating on social media platforms and
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Tea brewer Gold Crown Beverages has filed an insolvency petition against retail chain Nakumatt seeking to recover a KSh60 million debt it says has remained unpaid since January last year, reports the Daily Nation. The suit comes barely two months after another firm—African Cotton Industries—filed a similar application before the
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Uganda Cranes captain and goalkeeper Denis Onyango has confirmed that national coach Milutin 'Micho' Sredojevic told him he was quitting. The reigning African Football of the year (African based) told local news agency, URN on phone from his base in Pretoria, South Africa on Tuesday that when he met Sredojevic
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Betting firm SportPesa is set to meet Uganda President Yoweri Museveni as it inches closer to setting shop in the neighbouring country following its Tanzania entry on March 9. Mr Museveni last week sent a high-powered government delegation, led by Youth minister Nakiwala Kiyingi, to Nairobi to meet Sportpesa Kenya
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A well-known South Sudanese politician who a few months ago had called on government soldiers to lay down their weapons saying that would leave President Salva Kiir with no power, said Monday she has reconciled with the president. Rebecca Nyandeng, widow of South Sudan founding father John Garang and former
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A meeting between the Executive and MPs to discuss the proposed constitutional amendment to Article26 that seeks to give Government powers to compulsorily acquire private land for public projects has ended prematurely. The two sides failed to agree on the reason as to why the constitution should be changed. This
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Researchers in the United States say a trial in which American teenagers used a vaginal ring to prevent HIV infection has proved successful. A further such study will now be run with teenagers in Africa, the BBC reports. The girls used a flexible plastic ring, embedded with anti-retroviral drugs, which
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NASA Presidential candidate Raila Odinga on Monday endorsed opinion polls released on Sunday on the direction that the country is headed to. Ipsos Kenya released a poll on Sunday in which 61 percent of Kenyans said country is headed on wrong direction while only 21 percent believe country headed in
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