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No More Pressure! Beat Deadlines With Classy Speke Apartment Kitante’s “Work from Hotel Corporate Package”
With the travel restrictions and the COVID19 risks that come with heavy international travel costs, vacationing domestically is ideal. Despite the pandemic hitting the tourism and hospitality sectors hard, has paved way for the growth of domestic tourism. Instead of Ugandans flying out of the country to destinations like Dubai, they’re discovering and appreciating Uganda.…
Tagore Living Beats Other Apartments With It’s Crazy Accomodation Rates
Located in Kamwokya, a Kampala suburb, Tagore Apartments has the most favorable accommodation rates for its corporate travelers and guests on holiday. Be it a short stay, or your whole holidays, Tagore’s furnished apartments provide you with a comfortable base from which you can explore the beautiful city that is Kampala. Now according to the…
Minister Namuganza’s Agent Killed, Elections Called Off
Incidents of chaos and tension are continuing to be reported as Uganda’s mass party NRM are in polls to decide their next representatives in the 11th parliament. Fresh development coming in indicates that Dr. Tanga Odoi, the Chairman Electoral Commission NRM has cancelled the party primaries in Bukono County Constituency in Namutumba District after an…
SFC Breaks Silence On Museveni ‘Mobile Toilet’ Vehicle Accident
The Special Forces Command (SFC) has spoken out on an accident that left three people injured along the Northern bypass in Kampala on Monday, September 12. In a video shared online after the accident, a woman was recorded claiming that it was the vehicle with President Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni’s mobile toilet that hit the…
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World Bank Donates Shs57 Billion In Fight Against Covid-19 Pandemic
The World Bank Uganda office has donated Uganda Shillings 57bn (USD 15m) towards the country’s fight to the spread of coronavirus. The money according to Antony Thompson, the World Bank Uganda Country director, will be re-allocated from the Reproductive Maternal and Child Health Services Improvement Project. The money will be put back from the Fast-Track…
IMF Clears Uganda For UGX 455Bn Credit After Good Performance
The International Monetary Fund-IMF, has given Uganda a clean bill of health regarding the handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, the funds and the economy as a whole. For this, the Fund’s board has allowed for the immediate release of 127 million US Dollars (about 455 billion Shillings) for the country as part of the Extended…
Amazing: You Can Now Host End Of Year At Speke Hotel For Free
Corporate companies and organizations can now organize their end of year retreat parties at Speke Hotel located at Nile Avenue in Kampala at no cost, management has announced. All they need to do is pay for food, drinks and other services but not venue fees. Offering free venue to guests hosting their parties is one…
Bill Gates Donates $10m To Fight Locusts In East Africa
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has donated $10m (£7.7m) to help fight locusts in the East African region. The contribution will be given to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) that appealed for funds to fight the locust invasion that is threatening food security. FAO Director-General QU Dongyu has thanked the foundation…
Hamis Kiggundu: Our Banking System Needs Reform Otherwise It Will Impoverish All If Us
By Hamis Kiggundu Why do Ugandans come to banks rich with properties they pledge as securities and leave poor? Does it imply that all Ugandans are poor business Managers? Or the problem is with the System? My arguments on the call for banking reforms were specifically based on facts, reality within realistic current prevailing circumstances…
Big Story: Investors Cry Foul As Minister Betti Kamya Kicks Anite Out Of Investment, Takes Over Her Roles
Several investors in Uganda are crying foul and accusing the minister for Lands, Housing and Urban Development Olive Betti Kamya of overstepping her mandate and usurping the powers of Hon. Evelyn Anite, who is the State minister of Finance for Investment and privatisation. The investors contend that instead of Kamya allowing Anite to carry out…