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South Sudan Gets First Plastic Recycling Program
TweetThe Ministry of Environment, Juba City Council, the French Embassy in South Sudan, Southern Sudan Beverages Limited (SSBL) and Environmental Rehabilitation Program (ERP) officially launched “Juba...
View ArticleURA To Close Down Garden City Shops
TweetThe Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) has vowed to close down as many as 100 shops at Oasis Mall and Garden City along Yusuf Lule Road in Kampala after they evaded taxes over Shs2 billion. Shops...
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Tullow Resumes Kenya Operations
TweetTullow Oil plc (Tullow) has on 8 November 2013 resumed operations in Block 10BB and Block 13T in Northern Kenya following successful dialogue with national and county government and leaders of the...
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Amuria Must Outlaw Thieving contractors -IGG
TweetThe Inspectorate of Government has directed Amuria district to blacklist contractors with bad records. Following a 2 day on-spot monitoring exercise of NUSAF II projects in Amuria district, the...
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Tusker Rated 7th in Africa’s Great Brands
TweetTusker, a very popular beer in Uganda and the Great Lakes region has consolidated its position as one of Africa’s top ten most admired global brands. The flagship brand of East African Breweries...
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PICTURES: NSSF Sh1tr Lubowa Project Starts
TweetNational Social Security Fund (NSSF) boss Richard Byarugaba, on Wednesday Nov. 13 unveiled a master plan for the construction of $400 million 2, 741 housing units in Lubowa estate, their biggest...
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KQ Searching For New CEO
TweetRegional market leaders Kenya Airways have moved fast to find a replacement for retiring Chief Executive Officer Titus Naikuni whose contract has been extended by a year till the end of 2014 to...
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Uchumi Trades More Shares On Kampala Bourse
TweetMulti-billion Kenyan supermarket chain, Uchumi Supermarket Limited that traded 9, 158 shares on its debut on the Uganda Securities Exchange (USE) on Nov. 13 has today fronted about 200,000 shares...
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Betting Companies Slapped With Shs 200m Tax
TweetThe recent heroics of a Iganga Arsenal supporter who lost a residential house after placing a personal bet with a colleague in an English Premier League fixture between Manchester United and...
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Energy PS Defends Multiple Companies in Electricity Sector
TweetAll companies involved in the electricity sector are vital, Fredrick Kabagambe Kaliisa, the permanent secretary ministry of energy has said. There have been numerous calls for government to...
View ArticleUgandan Banks EA’s Best Debt-Payers
TweetUgandan commercial banks are better debt-payers according financial sector stability report published by Bank of Uganda with the country’s non-performing loans being four per cent of the total...
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Census To Cost Shs158b
TweetThe ever-dragging National Population and Housing Census, pushed from 2012 to 2013 and then August 2014, will cost Shs157.8 billion the government has said. Addressing the media and partners in...
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Uganda Poverty Levels Reduce
TweetThe number of Ugandans striving for new opportunities to improve their lives has increased driven by a drop in poverty levels in rural areas according to a new report. That implicates that more...
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Emirates Announces Largest-Ever Aircraft Order
TweetEmirates airline has again rewritten all records in civil aviation with an order for 150 Boeing 777X, comprising 35 Boeing 777-8Xs and 115 Boeing 777-9Xs, plus 50 purchase rights; and an...
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UNICEF Most Followed International Org. On Twitter
TweetIf you were wondering what was the most followed world organization besides showbiz business, Burson-Marsteller, a leading global public relations and communications firm, today released the...
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Google Lays Fibre Network In Kampala
TweetGoogle has launched Project Link, a fibre network access project for developing countries that has already begun in Uganda’s capital Kampala. Google’s Loon balloon-powered connectivity project...
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Umeme Report Outdated – MD
TweetUganda’s sole power distributor Umeme Ltd insists the report before the Parliamentary Ad Hoc committee recommending that the government terminate its contract was no longer valid.Umeme...
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Uganda’s Thakkar Joins Dell Global Advisory Board
TweetDELL Inc has appointed African businessman and Mara Group founder Ugandan born Ashish J. Thakkar to its Global Entrepreneur-in-Residence Advisory Board. Ashish Thakkar Earlier this week, the...
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Tullow Investments in Uganda Rise To Shs7 trillion
TweetTullow Oil has invested $2.8 billion (Shs7 trillion) in exploration for oil and the acquisition of Heritage Oil’s interests in Uganda since 2004, when it started its operations, Jimmy Mugerwa, the...
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Karuma Power Project To Create New 10,000 Jobs
TweetThe construction of the proposed Karuma Hydropower Project on River Nile is expected to create more than 10,000 new jobs according to Chinese giants Sinohydro Corporation the power plant and...
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