Uganda Revenue Authority Commissioner General Doris Akol has advised women to venture into mobile businesses and child-oriented businesses arguing that they are the most trending and lucrative businesses that can easily benefit women without too much hassle. Akol, who was addressing the Annual Women Conference 2020 at Hotel Africana this morning under the theme “An […]
Lameck Omara Apita, the Commissioner in Charge of Physical Education yesterday flagged off the Fresh Dairy Secondary School Games – 2020 edition with a call to schools to avoid using none students popularly known as Bachuba. The flag off, that took place at the magnificent St Mary’s Stadium in Kitende, will see over 600,000 students […]
Stanbic Bank Board of Directors has appointed Anne Juuko as Stanbic Bank Uganda’s new Chief Executive effective 1st March 2020. Anne Juuko who holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Makerere University and a master’s degree in Strategic Planning from the Herriot Watt Business School in Edinburgh, Scotland, brings on board a wealth of experience […]
MultiChoice Uganda, has rewarded 200 customers who took part in the Back to School promo dubbed “Sasanya Amajja” that was launched on 19th December 2019. The promo which was intended to reward DStv and GOtv customers who subscribed or reconnect their DStv or GOtv for a period of two months running from December 2019 to […]
The Church of Uganda has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with World Vision Uganda to implement initiatives that can address key human rights challenges mostly facing Ugandan children. The MoU, that was signed by the Church and the humanitarian agency, will see the Bishops from various Diocesan and the Ministers spread a Gospel of Children […]
Uganda’s State Minister for Tourism Godfrey Kiwanda has said that the Hotel and Tourism Training Institute Application Hotel located in Jinja is nearing completion and will be officially opened in July. The construction of the application hotel is being undertaken under the Competitiveness and Enterprise Development Project, funded by Government of Uganda (USD. 2.5m), World […]
Leaders gathering at the International Summit on Balanced and Inclusive Education (Third Forum BIE 2030) in Djibouti have called on governments to increase budgetary allocations and resources to the education sector. This, they say will make education inclusive and accessible to children. The conference which started on Monday and ends on Thursday brings together education […]
Climbing the organizational ladder often requires employees to work long hours and deal with difficult and complex issues. Some days on the job are likely fun and positive and other days are tension-filled and stressful. A common dilemma for many people is how they manage all of the competing demands in work and life and […]
Makerere University, one of the leading and oldest universities in Uganda and Africa has for the past years been clouded with unending battles of strikes. These, are mostly related to increment in tuition fees, teaching staff salary, non-teaching staff salaries, poor feeding, abuse of office… among others. The past weeks have seen the institution filled […]
French Company Total E&P Uganda has boosted the National Content Capacity pool by unveiling the first group of internationally certified oil and gas welders at Buhimba Technical Institute in Hoima district. The unveiling follows the successful completion of an intensive 3 months training course on 2G and 4G coded welding undertaken by the students and […]
Standard Chartered Bank in partnership with Challenges Uganda has launched a 6-month youth employability programme under its Futuremakers initiative valued at Ugx 300,000,000. The “Youth-to-Work” initiative which has been unveiled at Kampala Serena Hotel to over 100 guests will benefit 40 young and enthusiastic out of university youths with an opportunity to work with Small […]
Dogo Singh has been appointed as the new head of Bancassurance at Stanbic Bank. His role is to oversee the Banassurance side of business of the bank. Stanbic was the first bank to receive a Bancassurance license in 2017. He is responsible for winning and growing the banks Bancassurance clientele. Work experience Dogo has over […]
German software company SAP and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) plan to jointly create 450 jobs for highly qualified personnel in the IT sector in ten African countries. The collaboration, which was presented in Berlin by German Development Minister Gerd Müller and by Michael Kleinemeier, member of the Executive Board […]