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OP-ED: Those Playing Double Standards In Ham Vs Buganda Case Are Costing Our Kingdom Goodwill
By David Serumaga Kampala: Land disputes in Uganda are escalating every day and are causing a negative impact on our society and the people. One of the major factors fueling these land wrangles are the land professionals in central government and cultural leadership who use their offices to cause confusion in land matters. On 16th…
Grief: Sixteen Passengers Perish,Scores Injured In Kampala-Gulu Highway Accident
Sixteen passengers have been confirmed dead after a moving bus knocked a trailer along Kampala-Gulu highway. Eye witnesses say a bus registration number UAT 259P which belongs to Roblyn bus company was traveling from Kampala to Gulu before it rammed into a stationary trailer that was loading at Adebe trading center. The same has been…
Can Diamond Trust Bank Survive After Losing The 120Bn Fraud Case To Ham Enterprises
Kenyan Aga Khan Bank DTB is in a state of quagmire as it seems very clear that the bank is buying time to figure out how to pay Ham Enterprises but one thing remains clear that the Kenyan born bank does not have enough money to take care of the 120Bn fraud case. To shade…
China Reports Fewer New Coronavirus Cases, With All Of Them Arriving From Overseas
Mainland China saw a drop in its daily tally of new coronavirus cases, reversing four straight days of gains, as the country’s capital Beijing ramped up measures to contain the number of infections arriving from abroad. China had 39 new confirmed cases on Sunday, the country’s National Health Commission said, down from 46 a day earlier. All of them…
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Kabira Country Club Announces Easter Promo On Accommodation, Special Lunch
This Easter weekend, Kabira Country Club is the place to be after the swanky hotel in Bukoto announced some amazing discounts on accommodation and scheduled Special Easter Lunch happening on 4th April 2021. Kabira Country Club has yet again lined up a special Easter lunch on 4th April 2021 that will be served between 12:00 -…
Free Connections On Hault, As Umeme Contracts General Electric To Improve Service Delivery
Uganda’s power distribution company, Umeme Ltd, is hopeful that the electricity connection policy suspended earlier this month could be restored between June 2021 and June 2022, but this will depend on the success of the current efforts to get funding. The free connection policy, launched in 2018 was aimed at connecting 300,000 customers per year,…
Why Ugandans Should Praise & Embrace Dr Sudhir Ruparelia As He Moves To Reshape The City With Another Multibillion Swanky Hotel
Uganda is among the few countries with patriotic investors that do not brink when it comes to boosting their countries’ development. Among the few but heavily-loaded tycoons, Uganda is blessed is Dr. Sudhir Ruparelia aka money magnet who is the chairman of Ruparelia Group of Companies. Dr. Sudhir, also Nepal ambassador to Uganda is in…
Ruparelia Group’s VCON Construction Secures Contract For UGX38 Billion UMEA Project
Ruparelia Group through its construction company VCON has been awarded a contract to construct a project for Uganda Muslim Education Association-UMEA after emerging the best bidders outof 14 other companies that expressed interest. Vcon Construction (U) Ltd in partnership with Ambitious Construction Limited Joint Venture has been awarded a contract by UMEA for construction of…
OP-ED: Employ Benefits Like NSSF Can Make Your Business Resilient In Post Covid
By Ben Ssebuguzi Kampala: As business executives are scampering to cut costs in order to stay clear of the COVID-19 economic effects, some are making grave mistakes of evading retirement savings for their employees which makes them demotivated at workplaces hence less productivity. Employee motivation is defined as the level of energy, commitment, persistence, and…
Countering Climatic Change: How ERA’s Lower Power Tariffs Reduce Use Of Firewood, Charcoal
In a bid to counter the adverse impact of climatic change in Uganda, power regulator Electricity Regulatory Authority (ERA) in December 2021 introduced a Cooking Tariff known as Declining Block Tariff, which would enable domestic consumers connected on the national power grid to use electricity for cooking, instead of charcoal and firewood. The main objective…