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…
By Mark Muhumuza As Uganda weans off donor aid addiction, the focus shifts, yet again, to Allen Kagina, to raise Ushs8.4trillion in tax and non-tax revenue for the 2013/14 financial year…
By Mark Muhumuza Survival instincts; this is perhaps the best way of describing how National Insurance Corporation Limited (NIC) survived being suspended by the Uganda Securities Exchange (USE) for delaying…
By Silvia Nyambura In May 2012, Kolin, a Turkish construction company was awarded a contract to build the Hoima-Kaiso-Tonya road that leads to the oil rich Buliisa district of Uganda….
For the first time, Uganda will fund over 80% of her 2013/14 Ushs13trillion budget using domestic resources, mainly taxes and internal borrowing.While its good news Uganda is weaning off from…
By Patrick Kagenda Although very few people will admit it, most of us have used the services of a money lender, also known as a loan shark. Loan sharks come…