George William Nyombi Thembo Archives

Spinning off value? MoMo’s exit tests MTNU’s shareholder promise

CEO East Africa MagazineBanking & Financial Services Global News News & Analysis Technology & Innovation The Big StoryJune 17, 2025June 17, 2025

Uganda’s biggest Fintech, MTN Mobile Money (MoMo), is moving out of the family home. Long treated as just another product line within the telecom’s machinery, MoMo is being carved out…

Facebook sanctions and high device costs stare at Nyombi as he takes the reigns as Uganda’s communications industry regulator

The CEO Magazine TeamNews & Analysis Politics & GovermentDecember 2, 2023December 2, 2023

Nyombi Thembo, a shrewd politician and an economist is no stranger to the corporate corridors at Uganda Communications Commission headquarters in Bugolobi, an affluent Kampala suburb. Before his appointment as…

From a poor village boy who shared a grass-thatched house with goats, to a minister and now UCC Executive Director⏤Hon. Nyombi Thembo’s story

Muhereza KyamuteteraExecutive Profiles Politics & Goverment The Big StoryDecember 2, 2023January 15, 2024

George William Nyombi Thembo was born in 1964, just two years after Uganda’s independence to the late Erisa Somongu- a political activist and a Kabaka Yekka die-hard, Eseza Nanyonga Ziribasanga…