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Poor performance and funds mismanagement; is this why President Museveni fired NIRA boss, Judy Obitre Gama?

CEO ReporterThe Big StoryJune 6, 2020June 6, 2020

President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has ordered for the firing of Judy Obitre-Gama, the Executive Director of the National Identification Registration Authority (NIRA) over failing to satisfactorily issue National Identity cards….

COVID-19: Positive cases reach 557 as Prime minister Rugunda goes in self-isolation

CEO ReporterThe Big StoryJune 5, 2020June 5, 2020

As of today Friday June 5, 2020, Uganda has 557 recorded cases of Coronavirus as numbers keeping growing. The bulk of these are truck drivers tested at border points. Meanwhile,…

COVID-19: Tourism ministry issues Standard Operating Procedures For Hospitality facilities

CEO ReporterThe Big StoryJune 5, 2020June 6, 2020

Below, we reproduce the guidelines by the Tourism Ministry and the Uganda Tourism Board (UTB) this month. Introduction The global outbreak of the Covid ’19 pandemic has had a profound…

How Tourism Minister, Kiwanda was thrown out of a Kampala Hotel at midnight with 80 quarantined Covid-19 suspects and Hotel Nyumbani came to the rescue

Muhereza KyamuteteraThe Big StoryJune 3, 2020June 4, 2020

On the evening of March 18th 2020, President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni announced government would shut down schools, religious gatherings and entertainment places in order to decongest high risk population concentration…

Trucks to continue moving as positive COVID-19 cases stand at 457

CEO ReporterThe Big StoryJune 2, 2020June 2, 2020

Much as it has become clear that truck drivers are the main carriers of COVID-19, President Yoweri Museveni has maintained that Uganda needs the trucks coming until railway transport is…

EXCLUSIVE: Anthony Ndegwa to head merged NCBA Bank Uganda; Ntulume and Muyobo designated Executive Directors

Muhereza KyamuteteraBanking & Financial ServicesThe Big StoryJune 1, 2020June 1, 2020

Anthony Ndegwa, the current Managing Director of CBA Bank Uganda, has been designated the new Managing Director of NCBA Bank Uganda Ltd- a new entity resulting out of a merger…

EXCLUSIVE: Stanbic spins off its Business Incubator programme into an autonomous entity; Tony Otoa appointed its first Executive Director

Muhereza KyamuteteraThe Big StoryJune 1, 2020June 1, 2020

Stanbic Uganda Holdings Limited (SUHL), has appointed Mr. Tony Okao Otoa as the Executive Director of their new subsidiary- The Stanbic Business Incubator Ltd, CEO East Africa can exclusively reveal….

BoU clears CBA and NC Bank merger in Uganda; but who will head the new NCBA Bank?

Muhereza KyamuteteraBanking & Financial ServicesCompany NewsThe Big StoryJune 1, 2020July 6, 2020

Bank of Uganda has cleared the merger of two out-of-Nairobi banks- NC Bank Uganda and Commercial Bank of Africa. The two as per 2019 results were the 19th and 21st…

Uganda Revenue Authority wins 13 tax cases worth UGX103.5 billion

The CEO Magazine TeamThe Big StoryJune 1, 2020June 1, 2020

Uganda Revenue Authority has in the last 3 months, won thirteen tax suits worth UGX103,345,211,794 in the Tax Appeals Tribunal. The rulings that were made between March and May 2020…

JOHN MUSINGUZI RUJOKI: A portrait of the reformer at Uganda Revenue Authority

Muhereza KyamuteteraThe Big StoryMay 31, 2020May 31, 2020

On March 29th President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, in exercise of his powers, relieved Doris Akol of her office as Commissioner General of Uganda Revenue Authority and replaced her with John…