The state-owned National Water and Sewerage Corporation (NWSC) is determined to extend clean water infrastructure and sewerage to the entire nation. Progress is fast as well-managed services pay for new investment and upgrades. As a public utility, NWSC is keenly focused on its own responsibility amidst Uganda’s bid to become a middle-income nation – supplying […]
dfcu bank’s acquisition of some of the assets and assumption of some of liabilities of the former Crane bank continues to generate a lot of public debate and although it was not the first such transaction by dfcu bank, it involved the 3rd largest bank by assets. Before being placed under liquidation by Bank of […]
The final week of March 2018 has kicked off being consumed by: Will President Museveni right to ruled out the renewal of power distribution giant UMEME’s concession? Museveni in a letter dated March 13th, tasked Energy Minister Irene Muloni to explain to him how Umeme’s technical losses still remain as high as 17% yet the […]
24 year-old Karen Bugingo is a cancer survivor who, at the age of 19, was diagnosed with severe lymphoma (cancer) in her blood. As a result she wrote a book ‘My name is Life’, a story that tells about the struggles as a cancer patient until her recovery process. Now, her Kigali based publisher Dominique Alonga, […]
The Government has recognized the cross-benefit of access to safe drinking water and improved sanitation, and has in the last decade made substantial progress in terms of increasing coverage. According to the Minister of Water and Environment, Hon Sam Cheptoris the Government of Uganda is committed to ensure that every village in Uganda has a […]
Taxify is an international urban ride-sharing platform founded and headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia, and operating in 23 countries globally. Taxify has a global team of over 450 employees, and is the fastest-growing ride-sharing platforms in the world. In Uganda, Taxify operates in Kampala. The Taxify app is available on iOS and Android. TheUgandan had a […]
“My son Andrew, he wants power while the vultures around him want money,” was the response from my former lecturer to a text message I sent inquiring about her take on whether the incumbent occupant of State House is being held hostage by the convoluted web of largely illicit, ethnic, amorous and armed interests around […]
It is hard to believe today, but just 12 years ago access to electricity was reserved for urban dwellers. Under the government run Uganda Electricity Board, power outages were expected rather than a surprise and the national power company was losing four in every ten shillings of power it produced to thieves and an old […]
There is an ongoing push to put pressure on government agency, NITA-U, to give Chinese company telecommunications company, ZTE a bid to complete the final phase of the National Backbone infrastructure (NBI). It has been established that ZTE, through its agents, are using underhand methods to disadvantage the rest of companies bidding for the final […]
According to the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBoS),Micro Small and Midsize Enterprises (MSME) are categorised based on meeting any one of the criteria relating to the number of employees or total assets. The classification of MSMEs assesses all businesses irrespective of the legal form of the enterprise. Micro enterprises are businesses that employ less than […]