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Marvelous: Ugandans Can Now Invest In Global Companies With As Little As $1

As Africans, land and real estate are often our most popular investment options. And that’s okay. Followed closely by more formal options such as good old stocks, treasury bonds, T-bills, and fixed deposits. Now here’s the thing. These investment options are often

November 11, 2021

Health

Deputy Speaker Among Receives Mental Health Team At Parliament, Commends Them For Tirelessly Serving Ugandans

The Deputy Speaker of Parliament Rt. Hon Anita Among has on Wednesday November 10, 2021 met with the parliamentary forum on mental health, the mental health working group, and officials from the ministry of health to discuss how the mental health challenges

November 10, 2021

Sports

Police Still Hunting For Missing Eritrean Players

The police are examining documents left behind by missing female Eritrean players to ascertain whether they had links with the established Eritrean communities in Uganda. Last week, five Eritrean players went missing from their camp at Sunset hotel international in Jinja. They

November 10, 2021

Health

Parliament Grants Leave To MP Opendi To Introduce Bill On Surrogacy

Tororo Woman Member of Parliament Sarah Opendi has secured leave of parliament to introduce the surrogacy bill. Surrogacy is an arrangement where a woman agrees to carry a pregnancy for another person who will or become the actual parent. The proposed law

November 10, 2021

East Africa

Uganda Needs To Work With DRC To Defeat ADF – Museveni

Uganda can work with the Democratic Republic of Congo to defeat the Allied Democratic Forces-ADF rebels wrecking havoc in the expansive central African nation, President Yoweri Museveni has revealed. He was meeting a delegation from the United States of America led by

November 10, 2021

Business·East Africa

We Prefer Donations In Kind To Cash – Minister Tumwebaze

The Minister for Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries, Frank Tumwebaze is discouraging donors from giving his ministry cash. Tumwebaze said cash donations are tempting and also items to be procured could take longer because of the procedures that must be taken such

November 10, 2021

Business

I&M Bank Starts Work In Uganda After Changing Name From Orient Bank

The Bank of Uganda (BoU) has granted an operating licence to I&M Bank (U) Ltd to begin operating in Uganda after changing its name from Orient Bank. The Nairobi-based financial Group announced that the rebrand comes after the I&M Group’s successful acquisition

November 10, 2021

Health

Gulu District Embarks on Mass Vaccination Against Covid-19

The Gulu district Covid-19 taskforce targets to vaccinate up to 23,496 people against Covid-19 in a month-long drive that kicked off last week. The District Health Department received 2,318 doses of the Sinovac, 2,506 doses of Moderna and 20,990 doses of AstraZeneca

November 10, 2021

News

Exposed: Here Is Evidence BoU Signed At Court Of Appeal Accepting To Pay Legal Costs To Sudhir Now Stranded At Supreme Court

BoU lead counsel Margaret Kasule and her team are in what one would term as catch 24! because look, having signed a decree at the Court of Appeal on August 6, 2020, in which they obliged to pay in billions of shs,

November 10, 2021

Business

Supreme Court Sets Date To Rule On Who Pays Costs In Crane Bank Case

The Supreme Court has said it will at a later date rule on who between Bank of Uganda (BoU) and Crane Bank in receivership pays the legal costs to businessman Sudhir Ruparelia in the multibillion commercial dispute. This follows submissions by Mr

November 10, 2021