theceoma

OPINION: Access to safe water and sanitation in Africa’s growing cities is good business; for everyone

In reality, water resources are limited- therefore as populations increase, we have to learn to do more with less, making water efficiency, reuse and renewing a top agenda.

January 6, 2020

by theceoma

Join the NSSF Blood Drive this week: together, let us end the blood shortage in our healthcare system

By Richard Byarugaba, NSSF Managing Director From this Monday, 13th to Friday 17th January 2020, your Fund, National Social Security Fund (NSSF), working with Ministry of Health and the Uganda Blood Transfusion Services (UBTS) will yet again run the NSSF

January 13, 2020

by theceoma

Afriland First Bank Uganda and Opportunity Bank Uganda Limited Given License To Operate As Commercial Banks

Bank of Uganda has awarded licenses to 2 new Commercial banks. The banks, Afriland First bank

Eng. Naimanye Appointed Acting ED of Uganda Road Fund

The Minister of Finance, on recommendation of the Fund Management Board, has appointed Eng. Naimanye Appointed

With over half of Uganda’s GDP anchored in the informal sector, the future of inclusive banking may hinge on one thorny issue: can bibanja—unregistered land—be safely and legally accepted as collateral? Dentons Advocates' Associate Partner, Julius Kyamanywa, explores the legal ambiguities, credit risks, and a path forward. — Julius Kyamanywa is an Associate Partner at Dentons Advocates Uganda and an Advocate of the High Court with over 15 years of multifaceted legal experience.

Credit Underwriting Of Unregistered Land (‘Bibanja’) – A Discourse On The Ambiguous Legal Regime In Uganda

Over 50% of Uganda’s GDP is attributed to the informal sector (UBOS 2024 Census Report). It is therefore inevitable that financial institutions have to tap into it to sell their financial products

July 15, 2025

Legal & Justice·Thought Leadership

The authors, Mark Tinka (left) from TransmissionCo and James Byaruhanga, the Managing Director, Roke Cloud and Chief Commercial Officer, Roke Telkom.

SUBMARINE CABLES AND EAST AFRICAN INTERNET⎮ Beyond The Cuts And Repairs⏤ What’s The Long Game?

The past three months have witnessed several submarine cable interruptions across the African continent, resulting in the degradation of the Internet experience of users in multiple countries at different times during this

May 16, 2024

The Big Story

Catherine Ndungu, the Marketing & Innovations Director at Uganda Breweries Ltd.

My 3 takeaways from the Uganda Marketers Society CMO Breakfast

By Catherine Ndungu It was called CMO breakfast for a reason, I can’t remember the last time I sat in a session and learnt so much at a go. Call it mentoring,

April 23, 2024

Business & Markets·Thought Leadership

ENS Africa lawyers, Phillip Karugaba (left) and Rehema Nakirya Ssemyalo.

Hamis Kiggundu vs DTB and the licensing of foreign lenders in Uganda: Much ado about nothing

By Phillip Karugaba & Rehema Nakirya Ssemyalo The Supreme Court of Uganda gave its judgment last week in the much-anticipated appeal in Ham Enterprises Ltd, Kiggs International (U) Ltd and Hamis Kiggundu

June 22, 2023

Legal & Justice·News & Analysis·The Big Story·Thought Leadership

Tabitha Njuguna, the Managing Director of AFEX Fair Trade in Kenya.

OPINION: Easing cross-border trade in Africa, is key to strengthening East Africa’s role in food security and sustainability

Africa’s population growth is one of the fastest in the world. In 2020, the population was estimated to be 1.3 billion and by 2050, it’s projected to reach 2.5 billion. This surge

May 30, 2023

Thought Leadership

Jeremy Awori, Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ETI) Group Chief Executive Officer.

Dear Shareholders: Jeremy Awori’s first letter to shareholders as Ecobank Group Chief Executive

Dear Shareholders. I have the honour of writing this first letter to Shareholders in my capacity as Chief Executive Officer of Ecobank Transnational Incorporated, a position I have occupied since 1 March

May 10, 2023

C-Suite Leadership·The Big Story·Thought Leadership

Ensuring that no African is left behind- the role of satellite technology and services in Africa’s growth journey

By Scott Mumford, Chief Commercial Officer Liquid Dataport & Chief Executive Officer Liquid Satellite Besides drumming up fascination on social media as people share photos and debate the “strange strings of lights

April 26, 2023

Company News·News & Analysis·Thought Leadership

Nadine Byarugaba is Absa Bank Uganda’s Board Chairperson

Absa Bank Uganda⏤Empowering Uganda’s tomorrow, together…one story at a time

In 2021, we looked forward to and planned for 2022 with a high degree of optimism as the COVID-19-induced lockdown approached its end. The reopening of the economy in January 2022 would

April 19, 2023

C-Suite Leadership·Thought Leadership

Dr. Penninah Iutung, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) Africa Bureau Chief.

OPINION: Stop big pharma greed to slow down HiV/AIDS, Hepatitis C and other treatable deaths

This is seemingly the same script but a different cast; the profiteering and greed of big pharma knows no boundaries. We have barely pulled out of the COVID-19 pandemic, during which big

April 18, 2023

Business & Markets·News & Analysis·Thought Leadership

James Asiimwe Kamara, the URA Acting Assistant Commissioner Public & Corporate Affairs.

OPINION: URA Puts Taxpayers First When Mobilising Revenue

By James Asiimwe Kamara Tax is a price we pay for a civilised and organised society. It is the major source of revenue that enables governments the world over to provide public

January 19, 2023

News & Analysis·Thought Leadership

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