Roke Telkom has offered material and food support to improve the welfare of up to 200 children at Good Samaritan Children’s Home in Entebbe. Roke Telkom which is based in Bugolobi gave items including; a 5,000-litre water tank, personal effects, scholastic materials, cleaning, and sports equipment to the orphanage. The offer is part of Roke’s […]
The 6th International Open Data Conference (IODC) will be held in Africa for the first time, in Nairobi, Kenya, in 2020. The Announcement was made at the closing ceremony of the 5th IODC 2018 held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from September 27 – 28, 2018 under the theme “The Future is Open.” This year’s IODC […]
Once again, the world’s emerging economies are facing a bout of uncertainty. Argentina, South Africa, and Turkey are among those generating the most concern, owing to a combination of questionable monetary policies and currency depreciation vis-à-vis the US dollar that threatens to undermine these countries’ ability to service their debts. But not all emerging economies […]
In line with its focus on bringing people together and supporting the development of connected communities, Facebook has announced the names of 116 people worldwide who have been selected to join the Facebook Community Leadership Program. The list includes Uganda’s Savio Lule Mark of The Youth Hub Uganda. Around a dozen African community leaders have […]
Ethiopia once again heads the league for hotel development in East Africa, according to a regional focus from an influential annual hotel pipeline survey. Details of the survey, which covers the whole of the African continent, will be one of the key discussions at the Africa Hotel Investment Forum (AHIF), which will return to Nairobi […]
A grim picture has recently been presented in a survey by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS); that of a whopping seven million Kenyans currently unemployed with only 1.4 million desperately looking for work. The dire times have resulted in the other 5.6 million giving up on job hunting altogether. In a country where […]
Africa Logistics Properties (ALP), a specialist integrated property investment company, has launched its first 49,000 sqm of modern grade –A warehousing at ALP North Industrial Park in Nairobi, Kenya, with 75 per cent of the facility pre-leased. This is at a time when other segments of the commercial, retail and residential real estate market are […]
One question that has long plagued organizations is how to improve performance among frontline workers, the people who actually drive customer experience. Our work with hundreds of companies offers a clear and simple answer. To show how it works, we’ll walk you through an example. In 2016 the leadership team of a national retail organization […]
The Uganda shilling remained frail on Tuesday, a day that saw sustained market activity on the foreign currency demand counter. After holding out for most of the day against the greenback, the local unit buckled on the back of dollar demand from commercial banks and merchandise imports in mid trading to close the day quoted […]
Huawei Technologies has launched a position paper that states that ICT has the transformative power to boost sustainable socio-economic development. The Paper adds that governments have a vital role to play in forming a favourable environment for the dynamic and healthy development of the ICT industry. The Paper was launched during the ITU Telecom World […]
On Monday, September 17 2018, the Daily Monitor ran a story with the headline “How BOU Blew Shs 478 billion in the Crane Bank Takeover”. The story and its headline were seriously misleading. The story claimed that the Bank of Uganda (BOU) spent Shs 478.8 billion from an undisclosed account in the Central Bank under […]
The Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Uganda (ICPAU) and the Public Accountants Examinations Board (PAEB) have released the CPA August 2018 Examinations Results, indicating that 107 candidates completed the CPA course compared to the 97 that completed in August 2017. A total of 3,748 candidates attempted the examinations that were conducted from Monday 20 […]
After the 2008 global financial crisis, a consensus emerged that the public sector had a responsibility to intervene to bail out systemically important banks and stimulate economic growth. But that consensus proved short-lived, and soon the public sector’s economic interventions came to be viewed as the main cause of the crisis and thus needed to […]