Vipers SC became the 2017/18 Uganda Premier League Champions after beating army side UPDF 4-1 on Friday. Vipers SC finished the League with 65 points, while KCCA FC who are representing Uganda in this year’s Confederation of African Football (CAF) Champions League failed to defend the title as they finished second with 61 points after […]
The National Drug Authority-NDA has warned health workers against using certain batches of gentamycin. Gentamycin is a type of antibiotic that is used to treat a number of bacterial infections. According to the NDA, certain types of the drug that are being manufactured from certain countries are causing severe side effects. Victoria Nambasa Bukenya, Director […]
Another girl from Buikwe district has been kidnapped. The latest kidnap victim is 17-year-old Nasimu Gonza, a resident of Kasanja zone in Mbiko Njeru division in Buikwe district. Her mother, Barbra Namwase, says her daughter was kidnapped on Saturday while returning from work in Jinja town. Namwase says she managed to talk to her daughter […]
PHOTO: dfcu Bank’s Head of e-banking, Lloyd Busulwa takes members of the media through a live demonstration of the Omni-Channel e-banking platform which has been. Uganda’s third biggest banke, dfcu’s e-banking platform called dfcu QuickBanking first introduced in 2011 has been enhanced for customers using Feature phones, Smartphones and the internet. The announcement was made recently at […]
Supreme Court judge Stellah Arach Amoko will deliver her ruling today on whether to release on bail the jailed former NSSF managing Director David Chandi Jamwa. Just Stellah as announced the date yesterday after presiding over Jamwa’s bail application which has been opposed by the IGG. After spending 6 years on bail, the Court of […]
Last month I waded into the raging debate about the valuation of the sale of Crane Bank Assets to dfcu. The bone of contention then was that Bank of Uganda had undervalued Crane Bank and dfcu had bought it on the cheap, writes Joseph S. Kitamirike. The numbers bore themselves out and it was clear in […]
With the establishment of new cement factories in Tororo, the power utility Umeme is building new facilities, upgrading distribution lines, and making other improvements to strengthen service reliability and help meet power demand in the region. Umeme is investing about $5million in the refurbishment of Tororo cement and Tororo Nyakesi substations Selection Babungi, the Managing […]
The Parliamentary Forum For Road Safety with support from the World Bank’s Global Road Safety Facility and in partnership with the Ministry of Work and Transport and Safe Way Right Way today launched the implementation of the road safety legislative action plan as an effort to address legislative issues regarding the institutionalized management of road […]
Just two days after disbanding the Flying Squad Unit, the Policy and Advisory Committee (PAC) of Police has resolved to form a similar unit. PAC, which is chaired by the Inspector General of Police, is top policy making organ of the Uganda Police Force. It is comprised of all Police Directors, the Deputy Inspector General […]
In June 2015, a report by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) crowned Uganda as the world’s most entrepreneurial nation, beating 72 other nations in the ranking. The report discovered that out of an average of 10 Ugandans, 3 were entrepreneurs. It was a surprise that Uganda, a small country tucked away in Eastern Africa, could beat […]