Over the last couple of days, a torrent of malicious propaganda has been circulated through online publications and social media in what appears to be a deliberate effort to taint the reputation of dfcu Bank and its leadership. These allegations, that are varied in nature, seek to cause unnecessary concern among customers by casting a […]
By Dan Morris Tumusiime Dykema Gossett PLLC, which is among the Top 5 Law Firms in Michigan, USA, was my legal representative for my political Asylum case of 2008 – 2012. I would often travel by bus and train from Freedom House, the refugee shelter on Lafayette Boulevard in Detroit city to Dykema offices in […]
Across the globe, numerous efforts towards poverty eradication continue to shape most of international and local discourse, writes Emmanuel Waiswa. On the African continent, there have been a number of different efforts – by international organizations and national development agencies – to support the eradication of poverty and exclusion of rural poor communities. Even after a […]
Premised on contestable specifics, The Daily Monitor on Thursday 12th July, 2018 called for a review or disbandment of the Youth Livelihood Programme (YLP), writes Frank Mugabi. There was an attempt, probably because an Editorial should meet all credibility measures, to use statistics as evidence, unfortunately the figures were flawed. For example, to aver that […]
June 12, 2018 – Kwesé iflix, the Joint Venture of Econet Media, Africa’s leading pan-regional media company and broadcast network and iflix, the leading entertainment service for emerging markets, today announced the launch of its premier digital entertainment platform in Uganda with industry leader MTN. The all new Kwesé iflix service offers users the ultimate […]
“Our husbands do not give us that much support to sustain us; they are not up to the task of catering for the families’ financial needs inclusive of the children’s education, feeding, medical bills rent and the like and I do not know why,’ Ms Fausta Nnaku muses. She is one of a ten-member group, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Wakanda forever!! To all those relieving themselves from the blank panther hype. As a huge fan of Chadwick Bozeman and the marvel series, writes Simon Singiza, a BBA student at Victoria University Kampala. I didn’t expect anything less of the movie. What actually took me by storm was the excitement it caused globally not to […]
Wala, the blockchain-powered financial services platform and launch partner of Dalacryptocurrency, has announced that it is now live in three markets, South Africa, Zimbabwe and Uganda; thereby removing barriers to financial services and providing millions of consumers in these markets with a zero-fee, “better-than-banking” solution. Wala has also announced they are working with Spire, the token that […]