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BAT Halts Buying Tobacco From Farmers
TweetBritish American Tobacco Uganda (BATU) on Friday evening announced that effective 2015, it will no-longer be purchasing and growing tobacco in Uganda. Disgruntled farmers petition to the Speaker...
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Uganda’s Oil Grows Marginally
TweetThe amount of oil Uganda can recover has grown marginally in 2014, according to Ernest Rubondo, the Commissioner, Petroleum Exploration and Production Department (PEPD). Uganda now boasts of 1.4...
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Fastjet Launches New Route Between Tanzania And Uganda
TweetFastjet has today morning announced the launch of a new flight between Tanzania and Uganda “We’re delighted to announce we are launching flights between Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Entebbe,...
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350 Jobless As Two Fish Processing Plants Close
TweetUp to 350 people are jobless after two fish factories in Rakai and Masaka districts closed as fish stocks in Lake Victoria dwindle. UPDF soldiers prepare to burn impounded fishing gears as part of...
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ABE Business Management Qualification Helps Ugandan Entrepreneur Achieve...
TweetBy: Atukwase Cleophus The ABE qualification has proved invaluable in supporting my work as Chief Executive Officer at ‘BARESO – The Lord’s Vessel’, a not-for-profit organisation whose aim is to...
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Fast Internet Expected As SEACOM Launches In Uganda
TweetSEACOM has moved to strengthen its pan-African presence with the direct deployment of two Points of Presence (PoPs) in Uganda. Byron Clatterbuck Chief Commercial Officer SEACOM The launch took...
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Photos: Huawei Ascend P7 Launched In Uganda
TweetThe elegant A-list event was held at Victoria Hall, Kampala Serena on Monday, August 18 2014 in the presence of Hon. Nyombi Thembo, state Minister for ICT, invited guests, phone dealers, Telecom...
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Uchumi To Quit Uganda Market, Sales Down 12%
TweetChallenges in Uchumi’s Uganda subsidiary has largely contributed to the company’s drop in its 2014 full year performance, recording a 6.8 percent decline in pre-tax profit to Sh453 million from...
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Windows Phone 8.1 In Uganda
TweetMicrosoft today announced that three new Lumia devices: the Lumia 530, Lumia 630 and the Lumia 930, are now available in Uganda. All of the new arrivals are powered by Microsoft’s latest version...
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UTL Bosses Clash With Employees, Directors Blamed For The company’s Financial...
TweetRumour doing rounds is that there is tension at Uganda telecom (UTL) between employees and their Pakistan bosses including the Managing Director (MD) Ali Amir, Director Marketing (formerly Finance...
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Testing Your ‘Ugandanness’
TweetUganda Breweries Limited (UBL), through its flagship brand Bell Lager, today put multitudes of Ugandans to the “Bell Nation test” to prove that they deliberately choose to roll with what life...
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Kasubi Youths Benefit From Centenary-ILO Financial Literacy Program
TweetUgandaas produced several prominent entrepreneurs over the years. The financial literacy program that was started in 2012 has so far benefitted over 580 youths countrywide. A group of 30 youth...
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MTN Internet Will Still Be Costly – CEO
TweetBrian Gouldie, MTN Uganda’s Chief Executive Officer, at his first media briefing on Thursday said that internet infrastructure is currently still underutilized in the country, making it risky to...
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Finance Adopts 0.5% Tax On Transfer Of Shares
Finance Minister Maria Kiwanuka Monday adopted and considered a proposal of a 0.5% tax on transfer of shares in an incorporated company listed on the stock exchange. Finance Minister Maria Kiwanuka...
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New Law To Regulate Taxes Passed
Parliament has passed the Tax Procedures Code Bill, 2014that seeks to provide for a Code to regulate the procedures for the administrationof specified tax laws in the country. Finance Minister Maria...
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Worries As MTN Mobile Money Outage Gets Underway
Susan Mugenyi runs a mobile money kiosk in Kyaliwajala trading Centre, Namugongo, in Wakiso district. She says on a daily basis, she transacts money of close to 6 million Uganda Shillings. She is one...
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Africa’s Hydro Power Potential Underutilised – Experts
While many African states grapple with insufficient electricity, more than 90% of the continent’s hydro power potential remains unutilised. The Bujagali hydroelectric power station at the Bujagali...
View ArticleCity Butcheries closed Over Hygiene Fears
Business at Nakasero Market in Kampala came to a standstill as officials from Kampala Capital City Authority cracked the whip on butchers who have been working in filthy, unhygienic conditions a report...
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Smile Lauches SmileON
Smile Uganda launched its latest innovation, SmileON, aimed at improving the customer’s experience by allowing continued internet usage if their data bundle runs out before the end of the validity...
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CEO of Trillion-Dollar Company Resigned After His Daughter Told Him How Much...
A 22-point list written by his 10-year-old daughter was all it took to change the trajectory of Mohamed El-Erian’s life. Mohamed El-Erian, chief economic advisor at Allianz SE, speaks during the 31st...
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