Paul Murungi is a Ugandan Business Journalist with extensive financial journalism training from institutions in South Africa, London (UK), Ghana, Tanzania, and Uganda. His coverage focuses on groundbreaking stories across the East African region with a focus on ICT, Energy, Oil and Gas, Mining, Companies, Capital and Financial markets, and the General Economy.
His body of work has contributed to policy change in private and public companies.
Paul has so far won five continental awards at the Sanlam Group Awards for Excellence in Financial Journalism in Johannesburg, South Africa, and several Uganda national journalism awards for his articles on business and technology at the ACME Awards.
As the world pivots toward a digital future, Uganda is not being left behind. At the heart of its transformation is the National Information Technology Authority – Uganda (NITA-U), a…
Pay television company MultiChoice Uganda, which operates DStv and GOtv, will adjust its package prices, effective August 1. The adjustment, MultiChoice said in a notice, were occasioned by economic pressures…
Absa Bank has strengthened its Board of Directors with the appointment of two seasoned professionals—Hassan Saleh, Managing Director of MultiChoice Uganda, and Gloria Byamugisha, Group Chief Human Resource Officer at…
In a surprise move, global beverage giant Diageo plc has announced the immediate departure of its Chief Executive Officer, Debra Crew, two years after officially taking the helm. The decision,…
In partnership with PostBank Uganda, the Women in Business Awards (WiBAS) has skilled over 719 Women in the second edition of the WiBAS Handholding Workshop, aimed at equipping women entrepreneurs…
For over two years, Uganda’s Civil Aviation Authority (UCAA) ignored major red flags from the Auditor General about irregular recruitment—an oversight that has now spiraled into a national scandal, culminating…
Uganda has lost one of its most eminent legal scholars and outspoken guardians of the Constitution. Justice George Wilson Kanyeihamba, a retired Supreme Court Judge, renowned academic, human rights advocate,…
The Keshwala Group, one of Uganda’s largest privately held conglomerates, is undergoing a leadership transition that marks its third generation of family stewardship. Established in the 1950s as a small…
In a bold strategic move that underscores the intensifying competition in East Africa’s telecom sector, MTN Uganda has appointed Sylvia Elsheikh—formerly Chief Marketing Officer at Airtel Zambia—as its new Chief…
Uganda Development Bank (UDB) and Ministry of Finance will this week hold a meeting aimed at structuring a plan for the repayment of a UGX 10.5 billion loan due to…
