Oil Prices dropped on Thursday as investors assessed geopolitical risks. The West Texas Intermediate for March delivery lost 1.9 U.S. dollars, or 2 percent, to settle at 91.76 dollars a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Brent crude for April delivery decreased 1.84 dollars, or 1.9 percent, to close at 92.97 dollars a barrel…
President Yoweri Museveni will launch the Parish Development Model (PDM) on 26 February 2022 in the eastern district of Kibuku. The launch of Shs 490 billion PDM meant to eradicate poverty through execution of development activities at the parishes, was announced by the Minister of Local Government, Raphael Magyezi, during the House sitting on Tuesday,…
Uganda Airlines has registered an increase in the number of passengers as economies across the world fully open up. According to Shakila Rahim Lamar, the Corporate Affairs & Public Relations Manager at Uganda Airlines has revealed that following the reopening of the Ugandan economy in January 2022, the response has been encouraging, noting that passengers…
Tycoon Sudhir Ruparelia who last week again floored Bank of Uganda in Court, has tabled a bill of UGX200billion for all the costs. Last week, Supreme Court ordered BoU to directly pay costs at all Court levels and ordered that the Bank be reverted to Sudhir and the stakeholders, a ruling that effectively settled a…
Dr Louis Kasekende, the former Bank of Uganda (BoU) deputy governor, has no chance of bouncing back to that institution as Governor, following the death of Prof. Emmanuel Tumusiime-Mutebile. Not long ago Kasekende was considered an automatic heir to late Mutebile as Governor. Having read our exclusive article on the potential replacements for Mutebile, some…
By Ben Sebuguzi Kampala: Today a new dawn has come, the financial sector has received another good news, as one of their own, Crane bank has been reverted back to it’s shareholders who are Sudhir and Meera investment after a protracted long legal battle that has made the regulator, Bank of Uganda to vomit it.…
More than 90 percent of Ugandans who hold a bank account do not keep more than sh1 million at any one time on their accounts, an indication of the low savings levels in the country. There are an estimated 14 million bank accounts in the country. Of these, only about 2 percent have deposits totaling…
The Supreme Court in Kampala has dismissed the appeal filed by Bank of Uganda – BoU ( in Crane Bank Receivership) against Businessman Sudhir Ruparelia and Meera Investments Limited as the five-year court battle comes to a grand end. In a ruling delivered on Friday, February 11, 2022, Supreme Court ruled that BoU reverts Crane…
Minutes after legally slaying Bank of Uganda, for the forth time, but this time for good, Dr. Sudhir Ruparelia, has hit at certain officials of the central bank for stealing his bank, unnecessarily dragging him to court and prolonging the case for selfish gains. “These people stole my bank. They shared the legal fees in…
The State Minister for Investment and Privatization, Evelyn Anite has directed Uganda Investment Authority-UIA to repossess plots of land in Namanve industrial park that have not been utilized by investors. Anite who visited the park on Tuesday noted that five investors who were allocated land at the park have failed to develop the land ten…
