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Brand Africa Back To Award Top 100 Performing Brands In Africa
The popular annual Brand Africa 100 Awards are back, bigger and better this year and are scheduled to be held on July 11th, 2023, at Golden Tulip Canaan Hotel, Kampala. The Brand Africa Awards aim at recognizing, appreciating and awarding the best 100 companies across Africa, in a bid to acknowledge their endless efforts at…
Wanted: Col Lutaaya Runs Into Hiding As Court Remands Makindye Chairperson Over Theft,Malicious Damages
Court in Makindye has remanded Local Council one ‘LC1’Chairman of Klezia zone one Mr Chrizestoma Wakayamba to Luzira prison following his arrest on charges of theft and malicious damage of property. Wakayamba appeared before Magistrate John Okipi Robert,on Thursday 6 July 2023 afternoon and pleaded not guilty to charges. On court documents, Wakayamba is charged…
City Lawyer Kwesiga Bateyo Ordered To Cough Shs 86m Over Fraudulent Land Transaction
City lawyer Kenneth Kwesiga Bateyo has been ordered by Buganda Road Chief Magistrate’s court to Shs 86 million or be jailed for 3 years over his involvement in a fraudulent land transaction. The same court also sentenced businessman George William Salongo Kagwa and land broker Chrispus Sali in the same matter. Court found the trio…
WSO Advocates For Sustainable Coffee Production In Uganda
Director of the World Sustainability Organization, Paolo Bray has made an urgent appeal to the government and farming community in Uganda, for coffee farming and production to be made more sustainable.He stressed Uganda risks losing its position as one of the world’s major coffee producers, if immediate action is not taken.Coffee is one of the…
Tycoon Sudhir Relocates 20yr Old Trees As Construction of World-class Convention Centre Kickstarts
Business mogul Dr Sudhir Ruparelia has kicked off construction of the world-class Munyonyo Convention Centre that will host over 120 heads of state for next year’s Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit. The Non-Aligned Movement, founded in 1955 during the Asian-Africa meeting in Bandung, Indonesia, and pursued decolonization brings together countries that are not aligned with any…
Socialite Don Zella To Pay USh20m in Lawsuit Against Sudhir’s Speke Apartments
City socialite Sheila Nadege, commonly known as Don Zella, has been ordered by the High Court in Kampala to pay USh20 million as security for costs in her lawsuit against Speke Hotel 1996 Limited, trading as Speke Apartments which is owned by real estate tycoon Sudhir Ruparelia under Meera Investments Ltd. Don Zella had sued the…
Hajjat Hadijah Namyalo Uzeiye: Uganda’s Only Hope To Fully Eradicate Poverty Is By Embracing and Supporting The Parish Development Model
By Hajjat Hadijah Namyalo Uzeiye Kampala: The President of Uganda H.E. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni thought of how to fully eradicate poverty and initiated the Parish Development Model which was the main strategy in the NRM manifesto. He sought how to lift the country’s annual GDP growth rate to at least 7% by 2040 – up…
Education Giants: Parental Care Primary & Nursery School Wins Inter-Schools Debate Completion
Western Uganda-based Parental Care Primary and Nursery School, located in Bushenyi District, has emerged victorious in this year’s Inter-Schools Poetry and Debate Competitions, which were held at St Leo’s Kyegobe High School in Fort Portal City. The competitions, which were held on Saturday, July 8, 2023, and organised by Rwenzori Debate Forum, together with Kawanda…
ANDREW MWENDA: Why Gov’t Decision On Speke Munyonyo Convention Centre Has Been The Best
Recently, I had a debate with some Ugandan friends on the decision of the government to build an international convention center in Munyonyo in partnership with Sudhir Ruparelia. Uganda will host the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit in January 2024. So far, 88 heads of state and government have confirmed attendance. The country already has an…
Residents Task IGP Ochola To Discipline Tuba OC ASP Mugumya For Supretending Over Demolition Of Women Piggery Project
The angry residents of Tuba zone,Kyanja in Nakawa division have asked the inspector general of police Martin Okoth Ochola to intervene in a matter Where a group of machete holding men led by a one Deus Turinawe ,a chairperson alongside his defence secretary accompanied by other goons destroyed the piggery project and slashed the crops…