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Richard Byarugaba, NSSF Managing Director. Courtesy photo

NSSF has earned over UGX65 billion from investment in Umeme – Byarugaba

The National Social Security Fund (NSSF) has earned value from the 373,771,921 shares purchased from the power distributor Umeme Limited, NSSf Managing Director Richard Byarugaba has said. Byarugaba was responding to media

May 19, 2021

Company News·News & Analysis

Akon with celebrities and the Uganda Tourism Board team at Latitude 0 Degrees Hotel in Kampala last week. Courtesy photo

Akon delivers on assignment as Uganda’s tourism and cultural envoy, brings 16 celebrities to invest in Uganda

International music icon, Akon has delivered on his assignment as Uganda’s tourism and cultural envoy and brought to Uganda 16 American businessmen and women to invest in key sectors including tourism. The

May 17, 2021

Company News·News & Analysis

Nathan Were is a Financial Inclusion Specialist based in Nairobi, Kenya

We need to improve the image of agriculture to drive young people participation

By Nathan Were In the 90s and early 2000, if you ended up in an agricultural college after high school, society regarded you as a failure while it glorified those who ended

May 14, 2021

Thought Leadership

The Katosi-Kampala Drinking Water Transmission line will add 160,000,000 litres per day to the Greater Kampala Metropolitan Area. Courtesy photo

New Katosi-Kampala Pipeline Complete, NWSC Starts Disinfecting Mains Tomorrow

National Water and Sewerage Corporation has completed construction of The Katosi-Kampala Drinking Water Transmission Mains to supply drinking water to the increasing population of the Greater Kampala Metropolitan Area. In a notice,

May 10, 2021

Company News

New Digital Taxes Regressive, to Hurt Internet-driven Businesses, Slow Connectivity

By Nathan Were The Parliament of Uganda recently passed the Excise Duty Amendment Bill, 2021 in which new taxes were introduced. One of such taxes is on the internet requiring users to

May 8, 2021

Thought Leadership

Frank Tumwebaze, Minister of Gender, Labour and Social Development

Government Supports Innovation For Increased Job Creation And Labour Productivity

Uganda, on May 1, joined the rest of the world to commemorate the International Labour day. This day is commemorated in appreciation of the daily contribution of workers to national development. It

May 3, 2021

Thought Leadership

Pader Women Shea Butter Group showcasing their products.Women’s business associations, incubators, accelerators, and cooperatives that advance women’s entrepreneurship, can apply for funding from the African Development Bank. Courtesy photo

UWEP Championing Employment Creation among Rural Women

By Frank Mugabi Over the years, majority of women in Uganda have been disenfranchised from the formal business sector due to limited access to affordable credit, limited technical knowledge on business entrepreneurship

May 3, 2021

The Big Story

1st Deputy Prime Minister Hon. Moses Ali giving his remarks as Registrar General Mercy Kainobwisho looks on during the conference in Kampala. Courtesy photo

Government, URSB Discuss options for Supporting COVID-19 Affected Business Through Insolvency

Businesses, especially the Small & Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are facing financial distress arising from the unprecedented and ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. While business conditions are expected to improve for some industries, it is

April 29, 2021

Company News

Former Coffee Marketing Board head offices in Bugolobi, Kampala. Ex employees of the Board want their terminal benefits enhanced with interest. Courtesy photo

Ex Coffee Marketing Board Employees Lose Bid to Increase Terminal Benefits, Ordered to Pay Costs

Terminal benefits for the former employees of the defunct Coffee Marketing Board (CMB) will have to be reduced to pay legal costs incurred by the government in defending the case which sought

April 28, 2021

Banking & Financial Services

Finance minister Matia Kasaija goes through documents while appearing before the Budget Committee of Parliament early this week. Courtesy photo

DUPLICATIONS: MPs unearth 19 allocations of similar amounts of money on different activities in the Ministry of Finance Work Plan

The Ministry of Finance, the authority which is charged with the preparing of the national budget, has come under the spotlight over allocating similar amounts of money to different activities within its

April 28, 2021

The Big Story

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