Budadiri West lawmaker, Nandala Mafabi has backed State Minister for Investment, Evelyn Anite in the ongoing fight over management of troubled Uganda Telecom Limited (UTL); saying people running the telecom firm are simply milking it to death. In an interview at Parliament, Mafabi said that Anite is on the right
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Kenyan leaders have condoled with the family of the late Safaricom CEO Robert (Bob) Collymore taking to social media to express their condolence messages. Safaricom is East Africa’s most profitable company. Here are some of the tweeted condolence messages: President Uhuru Kenyatta STATEMENT BY H.E. HON. UHURU KENYATTA, PRESIDENT OF
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The Chief Executive Officer of Kenya based telecom giant, Safaricom, Bob Collymore (in featured photo) has died at his home early Monday morning, Daily Nation reports. The Guyanese-born British citizen took a medical leave in October 2017 to fight cancer. "He has been undergoing treatment for his condition since then in
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By Godfrey Mutabazi I had an interesting interview with the BBC East Africa Bureau on concerns around the Taxing of Social Media, which I would like to repeat here. One of the concerns is on the figures reported by the Uganda Communications Commission of internet users that appear to be
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The State Minister for Investment and Privatization, Evelyn Anite has in a new twist of events written to the Attorney General to apply to the court for orders replacing Bemanya Twebaze (in featured photo) as the Administrator of Uganda Telecom Limited (UTL). In a letter dated June 26, 2019,
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Speaker of Uganda’s Parliament Rebecca Kadaga has ruled that no select Committee will be constituted to investigate how the Bemanya Twebaze, the Administrator of heavily indebted Uganda Telecom Limited (UTL) is running the affairs of the company. MPs last week requested for investigations into UTL but the speaker pushed her
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Uganda Telecom Ltd (UTL) Administrator, Bemanya Twebaze has detailed the state of affairs at Uganda’s oldest telecom firm, revealing that the company is currently indebted to the tune of Shs530bn. Uganda Telecom Limited (UTL) is an insolvent company whose shareholders are Ucom, a Libyan Government entity and Government of
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Uganda Telecom administrator, Bemanya Twebaze has said that auditing of the company's operations can only happen at the end of his administration. Twebaze (in featured photo) denied that he had blocked any audit, but said that it was not the right time for government to carry out an audit. "Final
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Efforts by Uganda Government to revamp the struggling Uganda Telecom Ltd (UTL) have hit another setback after Minister of State in charge of Investments, Evenly Anite admitting that Government has lost control over Uganda’s oldest telecom firm. Making the shocking confession during today’s plenary sitting, Anite who looked shocked herself
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Safaricom has announced the availability of its “Reverse Call” feature enabling its more than 31 million customers to pay for calls for loved ones. The service enables a caller to transfer the cost of a call to the receiver by adding ‘#’ before the number they are calling. For instance,
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