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Legal 500 and ENSafrica Unveil List of East Africa Leading In-house Counsel – The GC Powerlist

Muhereza KyamuteteraLegal & JusticeLists & RankingsThe Big StorySeptember 6, 2025September 6, 2025

The Legal 500, in partnership with Africa’s largest law firm ENSafrica, has unveiled the GC Powerlist East Africa 2025, celebrating the region’s most accomplished general counsel and senior in-house lawyers….

MTN MoMo Uganda Separation Gains Momentum with High-Level Stakeholder Engagements

Paul MurungiThe Big StorySeptember 6, 2025September 6, 2025

The structural separation of MTN MoMo Uganda, a move that will see the country’s largest mobile money business operate as an independent, Bank of Uganda–licensed fintech company is gathering significant…

Fixing the Cracks in Uganda’s Advertising Industry: Saladin’s Rommel Jasi on Standards, Ethics, and the Fight for Creative Value

Muhereza KyamuteteraCEO PerspectivesExecutive ProfilesThe Big StorySeptember 5, 2025September 10, 2025

Rommel is not just an agency executive—he is a builder of people, a steward of industry values, and a tireless advocate for collaboration over competition. His story is one of…

How Bharti Airtel’s Indus Towers Decision to Enter Africa is Likely to Shape the Ugandan Market and Beyond

Muhereza KyamuteteraThe Big StorySeptember 5, 2025September 9, 2025

Bharti Airtel’s tower infrastructure arm, Indus Towers, is stepping into Africa for the first time — and it is beginning with Uganda, Nigeria, and Zambia. The move, disclosed in recent…

Serengeti Breweries’ Christopher Gitau Appointed General Manager, Greece at Diageo

Muhereza KyamuteteraCompany NewsExecutive ProfilesThe Big StorySeptember 5, 2025September 5, 2025

Diageo has announced the appointment of Christopher Wangai Gitau as General Manager, Greece, effective 1 October 2025. In this role, he will report to Olena Neznal, Managing Director for Eastern…

Centenary Bank moves to auction businessman Joseph Kiyimba’s Club Ambiance, other properties over unpaid billions in debt

Paul MurungiThe Big StorySeptember 5, 2025September 10, 2025

Centenary Bank has instructed Banu General Agencies, a firm of auctioneers and bailiffs, to sell properties belonging to city businessman Joseph Kiyimba after he allegedly defaulted on loan obligations. The…

Sarah Chelangat exits URA’s Domestic Taxes Docket after Four Years, Rejoins Ernst & Young as Partner

Paul MurungiExecutive ProfilesThe Big StorySeptember 4, 2025September 10, 2025

Sarah Chelangat, the outgoing Commissioner for Domestic Taxes at the Uganda Revenue Authority (URA), has rejoined Ernst & Young (EY) as Partner after nearly four years of public service. Her…

Media Age PR‘s John Chihi: The Quiet Architect of Uganda’s Modern PR Agencies Industry

Muhereza KyamuteteraCEO PerspectivesExecutive ProfilesThe Big StorySeptember 4, 2025September 10, 2025

From his early media days at Kenya Broadcasting Corporation and Nation Media Group to a career-defining Coca-Cola assignment that brought him to Kampala, Chihi recounts the evolution of PR from…

Tax Appeals Tribunal Shatters Records in FY25, Unlocks UGX 506 Billion for the Economy as Case Disposal Surges 144%

Muhereza KyamuteteraThe Big StorySeptember 4, 2025September 4, 2025

The Tax Appeals Tribunal (TAT) has posted its most successful year since its inception in 1999, resolving a record number of tax disputes, slashing case backlog, and releasing unprecedented sums…

Adris Kamuli: The MadMan Who Made Maad a Creative Powerhouse

Muhereza KyamuteteraCEO PerspectivesThe Big StorySeptember 3, 2025September 10, 2025

From creating culturally resonant work for top-tier clients such as MultiChoice (DStv, GOtv), Coca-Cola, UBL , Emirates, Uganda Baati, Ugachick, Pride Bank, Mastercard, Unicef, UNCD and flagship initiatives like the…