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    State Trade Minister Wilson Mbasu Mbadi and UDC Executive Director Patrick Birungi engage during a visit to present key UDC documents, including the UDC Strategic Plan, the UDC Act 2016, and the corporation’s profile, as part of efforts to align on its mandate and future investments. However, growing concern in Parliament has emerged over the corporation’s dominant share of trade sector funding.

    UDC Set to Take 82% of Trade Ministry Budget, Raising Concern Among MPs

    CEO East Africa MagazineThe Big StoryApril 17, 2026April 17, 2026

    Members of Parliament (MPs) have raised a red flag after learning that a single entity is lined up to take the lion’s share of funding for the Ministry of Trade….

    Beleaguered UNBS Executive Director James Nkamwesiga Kasigwa, former executive director David Livingstone Ebiru, Ben Manyindo, and Terry Kahuma. UNBS has had riotous leadership for over a decade now, which continues to undermine its core mandate of ensuring quality and keeping Ugandans safe.

    A Standards Bureau at War with Itself: How a Decade of Leadership Wars and Scandals Have Undermined UNBS

    CEO East Africa MagazineThe Big StoryOctober 27, 2025October 27, 2025

    From Kahuma’s corruption probes to Ebiru’s bribery confession and Kasigwa’s contested leadership, the Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS) has spent more time battling itself than enforcing quality. For over…

    UNBS Boss Back in Office as Trade Minister Drops Corruption Inquiry 

    Paul MurungiThe Big StoryOctober 27, 2025October 27, 2025

    In a dramatic twist at the Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS), Trade Minister Francis Mwebesa has rescinded his earlier directive that sent Executive Director Eng. James N. Kasigwa on forced…

    UNBS Boss Sent on Forced Leave as Probe Into Misconduct Allegations Begins

    CEO East Africa MagazinePolitics & GovermentThe Big StoryOctober 15, 2025October 23, 2025

    The Executive Director of Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS), Eng James Kasigwa, has been directed to take annual leave starting October 15, 2025, to pave the way for investigations…

    UNBS’ challenges are seen in its planned activities that either fail to happen completely or just halfway. In the 2023/24 financial year, UNBS had 9,000 planned inspections but could only afford 2,453, leaving vast gaps where counterfeit and unsafe products thrive.

    Flush With Cash, Starved of Capacity: Why UNBS Risks Becoming the Uganda National Bureau of Substandards

    Jeff WintersThe Big StorySeptember 17, 2025September 17, 2025

    Uganda’s watchdog charged with policing the quality of goods and services is flush with cash yet dangerously hollow in capacity. Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS) closed the 2023/24 financial…

    Could Musa Mageere be Preparing to Take Over the Reins at Luuka Plastics?

    Kisakye ImaniThe Big StoryJune 17, 2025June 18, 2025

    For almost two decades now, Musa Mageere, his social media profiles indicate, has worked at Luuka Plastics, steadily rising ranks from a production trainee to executive director. His rise has…

    UNBS hires three Japanese companies to inspect used motor vehicles

    Paul MurungiCompany NewsEast AfricaNews & AnalysisThe Big StoryMarch 14, 2025March 14, 2025

     The Uganda National Bureau of Standards has contracted inspection services of three international firms to provide Pre-Export Verification of Conformity (PVOC) for used motor vehicles, and other related equipment for…

    UCC asks UNBS to probe entry of devices illegally streaming MultiChoice and other pay TV content 

    Paul MurungiBusiness & MarketsGlobal NewsNews & AnalysisTechnology & InnovationThe Big StoryFebruary 20, 2025February 20, 2025

    Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) has asked the standards agency to investigate the illegal importation of streaming devices that are being used on the local market to reproduce content that is…

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    Paul MurungiExecutive ProfilesWomen In LeadershipSeptember 19, 2024September 19, 2024

    Lynette Akol is the proprietor of Krystal Ice Limited (KIL), a company that prides itself in producing a variety of ice products ranging from ice flakes, ice cubes, healthy and…

    Overtaxed, and bullied by corrupt regulators, helpless Asian real estate investors start ‘fleeing’ to Nairobi and Dubai

    The CEO Magazine TeamBusiness & MarketsNews & AnalysisThe Big StoryJanuary 22, 2023July 1, 2023

    Acacia Mall one of Uganda’s prestigious and much sought-after malls has been sold. Alykhan Karmali’s  Gulfstream Investments (U) Ltd, an investment vehicle through which he owned property, according to very…

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