Business & Markets

Redefining the CFO Role in Oil and Gas: How UNOC’s Emmanuel Mugagga Is Executing Strategy for National Impact

Paul MurungiBanking & Financial ServicesEnergy, Oil & GasThe Big StoryDecember 16, 2025December 18, 2025

Emmanuel Mugagga is the Chief Financial Officer of the Uganda National Oil Company (UNOC) and Winner of the Strategy Execution Award at the 9th edition of the Chief Financial Officer…

Kilembe Mines, Woodcross Resources top list of mining companies defaulting on mineral rent at UGX 3.75 billion

Paul MurungiEnergy, Oil & GasThe Big StoryDecember 16, 2025December 16, 2025

Government has issued a default notice of dozens mining companies and licence holders after unpaid mineral rent arrears climbed to UGX 3.75 billion.  Woodcross Mining Company Limited and Kilembe Mines…

UEDCL seals UGX 190 billion loan facility from Absa Bank Uganda amid performance probe

Paul MurungiPolitics & GovermentThe Big StoryDecember 16, 2025December 16, 2025

Uganda Electricity Distribution Company Limited (UEDCL) has secured a five-year financing facility worth USD 50 million (about UGX 190 billion) from Absa Bank Uganda to fund urgent upgrades to the…

Letters to My Younger Self: Charity Winnie Kamusiime-Asiimwe—”Fix the Leak, Then Buy the Billboard”

Kisakye ImaniThe Big StoryDecember 16, 2025December 15, 2025

dfcu Bank’s Head of Marketing on discipline, boundaries, courageous ambition, and leading with service in Uganda’s high-pressure corporate world Charity Winnie Kamusiime-Asiimwe is a marketing leader whose career spans telecommunications,…

AI, Automation & the Future Adman: How Technology Will Rewrite the Advertising Industry

Jeff WintersThe Big StoryDecember 16, 2025December 16, 2025

If the first four parts of this MadMen, Dreamers and Deal-Makers series were about the machine, how it was built from accidents, battered by economics, bruised by burnout, and handed…

Ernest Rubondo to Step Down After a Defining Decade as Executive Director of PAU

Paul MurungiEnergy, Oil & GasThe Big StoryDecember 16, 2025January 10, 2026

The Petroleum Authority of Uganda (PAU) has commenced the search for its second Executive Director, formally opening the next chapter in the leadership of Uganda’s oil and gas regulator.  The…

Uganda Airlines, Jenifer Bamuturaki, and the reckoning of 2025

Paul MurungiEast AfricaThe Big StoryDecember 15, 2025March 3, 2026

When veteran journalist Andrew Mwenda posted a video of weary passengers stranded at Entebbe International Airport, his words cut deeper than the images themselves. “The tragedy happening at Uganda Airlines…

dfcu Bank and Monitor Publications Crown Season 7 Rising Woman Champions, Celebrating Uganda’s Top Women Entrepreneurs

Brian EmorutCompany NewsNews & AnalysisDecember 15, 2025December 16, 2025

dfcu Bank, in partnership with Monitor Publications Limited, has crowned the winners of the Season 7 dfcu Rising Woman Awards 2025, recognising outstanding women entrepreneurs whose innovation, resilience, and leadership…

dfcu Bank Deepens 11-Year Partnership to Transform Lives as Best Farmers Awards 2025 Celebrate Uganda’s Agricultural Champions

Brian EmorutCompany NewsNews & AnalysisDecember 15, 2025December 15, 2025

Uganda’s agricultural sector once again took centre stage as the dfcu Bank–Vision Group Best Farmers Awards 2025 recognised outstanding farmers for innovation, resilience, and excellence across the value chain. This…

The Future is Creative: Gen Z, Talent, and the New Workforce Reshaping Uganda’s Advertising Industry

Jeff WintersThe Big StoryDecember 15, 2025December 15, 2025

The first three parts of MadMen, Dreamers and Deal-Makers were about how the machine was built, broken, and survived. This part is about who is going to drive it next….