Victoria University, a private chartered university in Uganda, has introduced nine new programmes – highly competitive on the world market place to enrich the education in the country. The revelation was made by the University Vice-Chancellor Prof. Lawrence Muganga at the university’s sixth graduation ceremony held at Speke Resort Munyonyo, in Kampala. They include: o Bachelor Science in International Oil and Gas Management o Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering o Bachelor of Pharmacy o Master of Science in Cyber Security – this speaks to your cyber safety today o Master of Science in Blockchain and Financial Technologies – 1st…
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“I have dreamt that unless I take action, our economy will be taken over. The people who are not Ugandans should leave,” these were Idi Amin’s words, the former president of Uganda, fifty (50) years ago told a gathering in Karamoja. Amin thought the Ugandan Asians were dominating the economy in the face of his attempts to ‘Africanize’ the economy. From Karamoja, he made a stopover at the Tororo airstrip in eastern Uganda where he addressed the army about his dream, creating panic among Asians.As some thought Amin was bluffing, they would later learn that he meant every word he…
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City tycoon Dr. Sudhir Ruparelia has commended President Yoweri Museveni for signing the Landlord and Tenant Bill into law, saying that the law protects both tenants and landlords. “The tenants will now know their rights. It will reduce the court cases between the two parties,” he said. Dr. Sudhir Ruparelia’s Meera Investments Limited is Uganda’s largest property developer with over 300 commercial, retail, industrial and residential properties, largely in Kampala. On Wednesday, Speaker of Parliament Anita Among confirmed that the President had assented to the Landlord and Tenants Bill 2021 after a meeting at State House in Entebbe. “Fellow Countrymen…
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Leading property developer and landlord Meera Investments Limited has asked the Parliament to help them acquire ten acres of Naguru-Nakawa land. President Yoweri Museveni ordered Uganda Land Commission to only allocate the said land to financial capable companies to develop it which will in turn create employment opportunities for Ugandans. While appearing before Parliament’s adhoc committee on Friday, Dr Sudhir Ruparelia, Chairman Meera Investments, revealed that he was only allocated three acres yet he had applied for 10 acres. The House is currently investigating the manner in which the beneficiary companies acquired the land. It is from here that the…
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Kampala Affairs State Minister Kabuye Kyofatogabye has defended the Public-Private partnership on the Kololo Secondary school playground that is managed by Meera Investments Kabuye on Wednesday revealed that the playground, under the management of Meera investments, something that Kololo Secondary School and other businessmen are contesting. Different sources want billionaire Sudhir Ruparelia chairman of Ruparelia Group (parent company of Meera Investments) to lose interest in the playground he wants to develop into a modern stadium, to benefit the wider community of Naguru and Kampala city. The Parliamentary Committee on Physical Infrastructure that sat on Wednesday has launched fresh investigations into…
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Yesterday, 12th August 2021, five Supreme Court Justices unanimously dealt a death blow to Bank of Uganda’s legal strategy, that if successful, would have reversed the several losses the Central Bank has suffered at the hands of businessman Dr Sudhir Ruparelia and his Meera Investments Ltd. The 5 justices, Rubby Opio-Aweri, Faith Mwondha, Dr Lillian Tibatemwa, Ezekiel Muhanguzi and Percy Night Tuhaise in unison dismissed BoU’s bid to substitute Crane Bank (In Receivership) with Crane Bank (In Liquidation), a move the justices said would fundamentally alter the facts the case and deny both Dr. Sudhir and Meera a chance at…
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Sheena Ruparelia is a Director at Ruparelia Group since January 2017.The Group is one of Uganda’s largest business conglomerates with investments in financial services, real estate, education services, hospitality, agriculture and media/broadcasting. After completing her Economics and Accounting degree at the City, University of London, Sheena returned to Uganda to join the Group as the Business Development Manager of the former Crane Bank Limited until 2016 when the bank closed. In 2017, she then joined the Group’s real estate development arm – Meera Investments as a Director. She is also involved with the hospitality and property arms of the Group. For the last…
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You are a man, whose career was in some ways was born out of adversity. You were one of the refugees from Uganda back in the 1970s. The days Idi Amin, how much do you think that influenced you? Becoming a teenage refugee in England; how much of that influenced you as an entrepreneur? Leaving Africa, our lives were protected. I was still a youngster, I was 16 when I left Uganda. Back here, my father had put us in a boarding school when I was five years old. So I didn’t know the real world. There was no networking…
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At least 47 students from the faculties of Health Science, Humanities & Social Sciences, Business & Management as well as Science & Technology have today graduated at Victoria University in a ceremony held at Speke Resort Munyonyo. The event held today under the theme ‘Educating with a purpose” saw the university award the best-performing students with prizes. Juliet Nakasinde from the faculty of business and management emerged as the best student with a CGPA of 4.70 and was followed by Nigisti Habtemariam Kidane with a CGPA of 4.69 while James Kasozi Musinguzi from the faculty of Humanities and Social Management…
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The year 2020, was probably the most challenging year for the Ruparelia Group since its founding more than 30 years ago. As one of Uganda’s biggest employers and the most prominent players in real estate, education and hospitality sectors, having to shut down our doors to thousands of our staff and our customers is one of the hardest things we had to do in 2020. Regardless, we took it all in good measure, because we knew it was the right thing to do and we knew the rest of Uganda and the world, had to make these little sacrifices for…
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