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Nile Breweries Appoints Olive Birungi Lumonya as New Board Chairperson with a Reconstituted Board of Directors

Paul MurungiThe Big StoryFebruary 13, 2026February 13, 2026

Nile Breweries Limited (NBL) has appointed Ms. Olive Birungi Lumonya as Chairperson of the Board of Directors, effective January 1, 2026. Ms. Lumonya assumes the role following the untimely passing…

South Africa’s capital is moving north-east, and East Africa is increasingly the preferred landing strip

The CEO Magazine TeamThe Big StoryFebruary 13, 2026February 27, 2026

South African capital, long dominant in Southern Africa and deeply embedded across the continent, is now moving decisively north-east. Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, and Rwanda are no longer peripheral growth outposts….

‘It May Not Be Ours’: Deputy Central Bank Governor Suggests Uganda’s Sudden USD6.4 bn Gold Boom is Fuelled by Re-Exports

Muhereza KyamuteteraEconomy & PolicyThe Big StoryFebruary 13, 2026February 24, 2026

The Deputy Governor, Bank of Uganda, Prof. Augustus Nuwagaba, has drawn attention to a key structural feature of Uganda’s recent gold export performance: while gold has become the country’s largest…

What Absa Group’s Hiring of M-PESA’s Sitoyo Lopokoiyit Reveals About Kenny Fihla’s Strategic Intentions

Muhereza KyamuteteraBanking & Financial ServicesThe Big StoryFebruary 13, 2026February 13, 2026

Hardly two weeks after Absa Group CEO Kenny Fihla concluded a high-level working visit to Nairobi, Kenya, the Group this week announced that it had hired Sitoyo Lopokoiyit as its…

Kenneth Rubango: Making healthcare work for every Ugandan

Kisakye ImaniTechnology & InnovationThe Big StoryFebruary 12, 2026February 12, 2026

Kenneth Rubango is the Director of Biomedical Engineering at the Joint Medical Stores (JMS). JMS is a private-Not-For Profit Non-Governmental Organisation that was established in 1979 as a joint venture…

The Culture of Excuses: How Performance Slips One Conversation at a Time

CEO East Africa MagazineLeadership & GovernanceThe Big StoryFebruary 12, 2026February 12, 2026

At a multimedia organisation where I once worked, we were assigned a group project. Three of us. A comfortable deadline. Enough time to do it well. We met early, mapped…

Ecobank Kenya Names Rebecca M. Mbithi New Managing Director as Anan-Ankomah Retains Regional Role

Paul MurungiThe Big StoryFebruary 11, 2026February 11, 2026

Ecobank Kenya has named Mrs. Rebecca M. Mbithi as its new Managing Director, succeeding Mrs. Josephine Anan-Ankomah, who has fully transitioned to a regional leadership role within Ecobank Group. Mbithi’s…

Absa Group Appoints M-PESA Africa CEO Sitoyo Lopokoiyit as Head of Personal and Private Banking

Paul MurungiBanking & Financial ServicesThe Big StoryFebruary 11, 2026February 11, 2026

Absa Group has confirmed the appointment of M-PESA Africa chief executive Sitoyo Lopokoiyit as the new head of its Personal and Private Banking division, marking a significant leadership move as…

Will Elias Edu Confront NIC Holdings’ Falling Market Share?

Jeff WintersThe Big StoryFebruary 11, 2026February 12, 2026

For much of Uganda’s post-independence history, NIC Holdings occupied a privileged position in the country’s insurance landscape. Established in 1964 as National Insurance Corporation, NIC was once the dominant underwriter…

What Hunting Lions of Kenya’s Maasai Mara Taught Dilip Pal, Safaricom’s CFO, About Strategy & Execution

Muhereza KyamuteteraThe Big StoryFebruary 10, 2026February 10, 2026

On a recent visit to Kenya’s Maasai Mara, Dilip Pal was not in a boardroom, a strategy offsite, or a finance review. He was watching lions. What unfolded before him,…