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    Turning Songs into Assets: The Governance Framework Needed to Power Africa’s Creative Economy

    CEO East Africa MagazineThought LeadershipOctober 30, 2025January 10, 2026

    By Joshua Mawerere The recent announcement of the partnership between NCBA Bank Kenya and Motif Di Don to introduce ELEV8 Live – a platform to discover, mentor and scale new…

    DSE’s total assets reached TZS 42.02 billion ($15.86 million), reflecting a 17% increase from TZS 36.07 billion ($13.62 million) a year earlier.

    Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange Delivers 50% Profit Jump, Strengthens Balance Sheet to $15.9 Million in Assets

    CEO East Africa MagazineNews & AnalysisOctober 29, 2025October 29, 2025

    The Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange (DSE) has posted another quarter of solid financial performance, signaling strong operational resilience and investor confidence amid a tightening regional economic environment. For the…

    Beleaguered UNBS Executive Director James Nkamwesiga Kasigwa, former executive director David Livingstone Ebiru, Ben Manyindo, and Terry Kahuma. UNBS has had riotous leadership for over a decade now, which continues to undermine its core mandate of ensuring quality and keeping Ugandans safe.

    A Standards Bureau at War with Itself: How a Decade of Leadership Wars and Scandals Have Undermined UNBS

    CEO East Africa MagazineThe Big StoryOctober 27, 2025October 27, 2025

    From Kahuma’s corruption probes to Ebiru’s bribery confession and Kasigwa’s contested leadership, the Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS) has spent more time battling itself than enforcing quality. For over…

    IRA CEO Ibrahim Kaddunabbi Lubega says the rise in complaints tells a new story, not of failure, but of trust restored, voices amplified, and an industry finally listening.

    Trust is the Currency of Insurance: IRA CEO Ibrahim Kaddunabbi on Rising Complaints, Digital Transformation, and Consumer Empowerment

    CEO East Africa MagazineThe Big StoryOctober 27, 2025October 26, 2025

    Customer complaints in the insurance sector have more than doubled in just three years, from under 150 to over 350. But to Chief Executive Officer Ibrahim Kaddunabbi Lubega, this isn’t…

    A photo collage of Absa Managing Director David Wandera and Standard Chartered chief executive officer Sanjay Rughani. Standard Chartered and Absa Bank announced on October 24 that they had agreed on the sale of Standard Chartered’s Wealth and Retail Banking business portfolio to Absa Uganda.

    Big Leap: How Absa’s UGX 1.3 Trillion New Assets and Deposits Acquisition Through Stanchart’s Wealth and Retail Business Will Rewrite its Growth Story

    CEO East Africa MagazineThe Big StoryOctober 24, 2025October 31, 2025

    Less than a year after Standard Chartered Bank announced plans to exit its Wealth and Retail Business (WRB) segment as part of a global restructuring strategy, the long-anticipated transaction has…

    Left to right: A photo collage of Hassanein Hiridjee, Geoffrey Donnels Oketayot, and Ronald Onzia. Hiridjee, together with Towerco of Africa Uganda, had sought to stay proceedings or refer a multimillion-dollar shareholder dispute to a UK court. However, court rejected the pleadings that Oketayot, Onzia, and another shareholder, George Arthur Ssamula, had strongly opposed.

    Ugandan Court Rejects Towerco Bid to Shift Dispute to UK, Citing Fraud Allegations and Public Policy

    CEO East Africa MagazineThe Big StoryOctober 24, 2025October 23, 2025

    In a ruling that reinforces Ugandan courts’ discretion to retain jurisdiction over disputes relating to alleged illegality, Justice Patience Rubagumya of the Commercial Division of the High Court declined to…

    The Phoenix Trait: Leading Beyond Titles

    CEO East Africa MagazineThought LeadershipOctober 18, 2025October 27, 2025

    “Leadership is more than a title, it’s a trait,” is a statement we often echo in boardrooms and across digital platforms, yet few truly grasp the depth of its meaning….

    Uganda’s Tourism Paradox: Ambitious Dreams, Unrated Hotels, and a Regulator Without Teeth

    CEO East Africa MagazineHospitality & TourismNews & AnalysisPolitics & GovermentOctober 17, 2025October 18, 2025

    Uganda wants to double its tourism revenues, raise annual visitor arrivals to 1.9 million by 2026, and grow the sector’s contribution to GDP to 10% by 2040. But beneath these…

    A photo collage of former Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta, NCBA Group chairman James P. M. Ndegwa, NCBA Group managing director John Gachora, and former Kenyan minister, the late Simeon Nyachae, whose family maintains a substantial holding in NCBA Group. If Standard Bank, which trades as Stanbic in Uganda and Kenya, takes over NCBA Group, the key figures above, whose families are represented by different individuals as shareholders, will be some of the biggest beneficiaries from either a windfall in the form of a payout or a shareholder value addition derived from an enlarged regional banking powerhouse.

    The NCBA Windfall: Shareholders Set for a Windfall if Stanbic Seals the Takeover

    CEO East Africa MagazineThe Big StoryOctober 16, 2025October 23, 2025

    If the long-rumored Stanbic–NCBA merger or buyout becomes reality, NCBA shareholders could emerge as the biggest winners in East Africa’s next major banking shake-up. The market already seems to agree….

    UNBS Boss Sent on Forced Leave as Probe Into Misconduct Allegations Begins

    CEO East Africa MagazinePolitics & GovermentThe Big StoryOctober 15, 2025October 23, 2025

    The Executive Director of Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS), Eng James Kasigwa, has been directed to take annual leave starting October 15, 2025, to pave the way for investigations…

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