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Quality First: How Aga Khan University Hospital Is Strenthening Uganda’s Healthcare

CEO East Africa MagazineCEO PerspectivesCompany NewsThe Big StorySeptember 18, 2025September 19, 2025

Ahead of a historic milestone for Uganda’s health and education sectors, The CEO Magazine sat down with Aga Khan University Hospital CEO Rashid Khalani. Last week, Kampala hosted the inauguration…

Family Feud Reveals Vast Riches of Recently Deceased Ugandan Billionaire Businessman, James Garuga

Muhereza KyamuteteraExecutive ProfilesThe Big StorySeptember 18, 2025September 18, 2025

When billionaire businessman James Garuga Musinguzi died on 6th August 2025 at Nakasero Hospital in Kampala, Uganda lost one of its most influential entrepreneurs. From humble beginnings in Kigezi, Garuga…

East Africa’s Bank Governors Shine in Global Central Banker Rankings

Paul MurungiBanking & Financial ServicesThe Big StorySeptember 17, 2025September 17, 2025

 East Africa’s monetary chiefs, Michael Atingi-Ego of Uganda and Kamau Thugge of Kenya, have emerged among the world’s best-performing central bankers, according to London-based Global Finance Magazine’s 2025 Central Banker…

Flush With Cash, Starved of Capacity: Why UNBS Risks Becoming the Uganda National Bureau of Substandards

Jeff WintersThe Big StorySeptember 17, 2025September 17, 2025

Uganda’s watchdog charged with policing the quality of goods and services is flush with cash yet dangerously hollow in capacity. Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS) closed the 2023/24 financial…

Record AGM Backs EABL Management and Board Amid Diageo Exit Talk

Jeff WintersThe Big StorySeptember 17, 2025September 17, 2025

East African Breweries Limited (EABL) has secured overwhelming shareholder backing. At its 103rd virtual annual general meeting – even as speculation intensifies over Diageo’s planned scale down – EABL, on…

Who is William Byaruhanga, the Ugandan Lawyer/Investor who has acquired 14% in Kenyan lender Sidian?

Paul MurungiExecutive ProfilesThe Big StorySeptember 16, 2025September 16, 2025

When Ugandan lawyer and investor William Byaruhanga quietly acquired a 14.63 percent stake in Sidian Bank, one of Kenya’s fastest-growing lenders, it sent ripples across East Africa’s financial markets. The…

Former AG William Byaruhanga Acquires Billion-Shilling Stake in Kenya’s Sidian Bank

Paul MurungiBanking & Financial ServicesThe Big StorySeptember 16, 2025September 16, 2025

Former Ugandan Attorney General William Byaruhanga has extended his footprint beyond Kampala’s legal and real estate corridors into Nairobi’s financial sector, in a billion-shilling bet that reshapes the ownership of…

Passion with Precision: Ligomarc’s Joshua Ogwal on Law, Finance, and Leadership

Muhereza KyamuteteraExecutive ProfilesLegal & JusticeThe Big StorySeptember 16, 2025September 16, 2025

Can you tell us about your early years?  Your childhood, where you were born and raised, earliest memories, that sort of thing?  I was born in Mulago Hospital, Kampala. I…

Justice Adonyo, Judge Behind Controversial Ham vs. DTB Syndicated Loans Ruling, Now Mediator in Similar Dei vs Equity Bank Row

Muhereza KyamuteteraExecutive ProfilesThe Big StorySeptember 16, 2025September 16, 2025

Retired Justice Dr. Henry Peter Adonyo has been appointed mediator in High Court matter HCT-00-CC-ME-0348-2025, pitting Dei Industries International Ltd against Equity Bank Uganda Ltd. The case, filed in 2024,…

Government Loses as Billionaire Businessman John Ssebalamu Secures Landmark Ruling in UGX 7.7bn Land Dispute — But Court Awards Him UGX 550m

Muhereza KyamuteteraLegal & JusticeThe Big StorySeptember 15, 2025September 15, 2025

When billionaire businessman John Ssebalamu acquired twenty parcels of land in Rubaga, Kampala, his vision was to build a state-of-the-art shopping mall that would transform the city’s retail landscape. The…