Standard Chartered Bank Uganda has today, Wednesday 08th January 2020, launched its annual Loan Repayment Holiday campaign where it is offering a repayment holiday of up to 75 days for…
80% of Uganda’s business are confident about business growth in 2020 according to Stanbic Bank’s Purchasing Managers Index (PMI), a monthly survey that measures business conditions in the country. The…
The European Union Delegation to Uganda, working with the Government of Uganda will convene the first ever Uganda-Europe Business Forum, from 9-10 March at the lakeside Speke Resort and Munyonyo…
Absa Group Limited (AGL) today, 6th January 2020, announced the appointment of Aaron Daniel Mminele as Group Chief Executive of Absa Group, effective from 15 January 2020. Mminele will be…
In reality, water resources are limited- therefore as populations increase, we have to learn to do more with less, making water efficiency, reuse and renewing a top agenda.
As Tumwebaze leaves the ICT ministry for Hon Judith Nabakooba and Peter Ogwang, he leaves behind a solid foundation in form of plans, policies and actual achievements, but also a solid pillar of continuity in Hon. Bagiire and his team.
Rajiv Ruparelia, the Ruparelia Group Managing Director and heir apparent to the Ruparelia Group empire of over 28 businesses, turned 30 years. At 30 years, he is probably the youngest CEO of a business empire that is now in excess of USD 1 billion (UGX3.7 trillion). In this exclusive, candid interview, billionaire Dr Sudhir Ruparelia, the group’s founder and Chairman, spoke to CEO EA Magazine’s Executive Editor, Muhereza Kyamutetera about his slow but sure road to retirement and why he chose Rajiv to take over from him. Dr Sudhir, speaking from a skiing resort in Aspen, Colorado, in the United States of America, where the family is on a skiing holiday to celebrate Rajiv’s birthday, also gives tips on how to manage intergenerational succession in family businesses.
In his New Year’s address, President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has vowed to deal with rising crime which he says is abetted by corruption and laxity of the Uganda Police. He also lashed out at Ugandans who disrespect the environment by encroaching on swamps, invading the natural high-rise forests or settling on Mountain –slopes steeper than 32o saying the act constituted self and national suicide. The President also reiterated the importance of commercial production and value addition instead of subsistence farming and trade in raw materials, saying an export-led growth holds the key to improved incomes and national economic growth. He also sabre-rattled about his war on corruption and protection of land rights of the legal and bonafide land owners.
By John Babirukamu Patrick Amama Mbabazi launched his 2015-2016 presidential campaign with a masterstroke that shock the country. A well-produced video launched on YouTube, not television or radio. And yes,…
