It’s a public secret that Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS) has failed to handle fake products in Uganda, and rightly so if reports that the entity is underfunded and…
By Silvia Nyambura Reinsurance refers to the practice of insurers transferring portions of risk portfolios to other parties by some form of agreement in order to reduce the likelihood of…
By Silvia Nyambura In a country where the insurance industry is grappling with low penetration levels and lack of awareness about insurance, insurance companies have had to find innovative ways to…
By Taddewo Senyonyi On June 28, 2011, the president of Uganda Yoweri Kaguta Museveni assented into law the Uganda Retirement Benefits Regulatory Authority (URBRA) Act 2011, with a major aim…
By Mark Muhumuza Two brightly shinning buildings have given a formerly dull, shanty looking area of Nakawa 4kms from East of Kampala a new glossy look. For the last two…
By Patrick Kagenda Ugandan nationals are for the first time in the country`s history getting National Identification Cards. Although the exercise has begun in the capital Kampala, it will soon cover the…
By Patrick Kagenda With agriculture contributing 22% of the country`s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), 48% of the country`s export earnings and employing 77% of the population, which is mainly rural based, the sector…
By Mark Muhumuza In 2008, when Ecobank subsidiary of the Ecobank Group, UBA Uganda part of the UBA group and Global Trust Bank, three commercial banks owned by Nigeria’s insurance behemoth Industrial…
By Mark Muhumuza With most of the downstream and upstream bills to govern Uganda’s oil sector having been passed by parliament only the Revenue Management Bill 2012, is yet to be debated…
