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Winfred Phiona Adong during Equity Bank’s Customer Service Week Stakeholder breakfast held at Hotel Africana on 7th October 2025.

Adong inspiring Soroti through Manufacturing

Wearing a Clifton black top, a black skirt with matching black heels, Winfred Phiona Adong walked into Hotel Africana’s Ssezibwa Hall with quiet confidence. When she spoke, she was calm and articulate.

October 30, 2025

Business & Markets·Company News

How e-commerce startup Kweli.shop is helping solve Uganda’s counterfeits problem

In 2018, the Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS), conducted an operation in Kampala. It raided two prominent malls; Energy Centre and Light Centre Arcade. The majority of the shops in these

February 16, 2023

Company News·News & Analysis

Geoffrey Mutabazi's first model was to get a board with many sockets that he carried around at events for people to charge

NECESSITY BREEDS INVENTION: How frequent battery runouts led Geofrey Mutabazi to build Charge-ko, a mobile device charging business

As a reporter covering events and the entertainment industry in general at Chano8, an online news platform, Geoffrey Mutabazi always found himself having the same problem – his phone would run out

March 24, 2022

Entrepreneurship·News & Analysis