Stanbic Bank Uganda has started issuing bonus shares to some of its investors as the institution seeks to grow its capital base to match well with the Bank of Uganda capital requirement. This has come after the Capital Markets Authority (CMA) cleared Stanbic Bank last month to issue 5,118,866,970 shares to its listed shareholders. The […]
About 300 Rwandese residing inUgandaand working inKampalaare planning a meeting with president Museveni at a time to be defined soon. We are told by one of Rwandese that they hope to meet Museveni this month under their umbrella association of ‘Umubano.’ However the preparations for the meeting have turned controversial because some Rwandese security operatives […]
Former Uganda Big Brother Africa finalist, Sharon Nalukenge has celebrated her controversial birthday at Club Rouge in Kampala. We call it controversial because she claimed to be 23 years but she looks to be over 26 years. When Sharon was preparing to contest for Big Brother Africa, she announced that she was 25 years old and the people […]
Cavendish University Uganda will be holding its first graduation ceremony this Saturday at the Speke Resort Munyonyo. Addressing the media at the university campus in Nsambya today, the university’s chairman, university council, Dr. Ketrine Salati revealed that 300 students are set to graduate with degrees, diplomas and certificates in various disciplines. Of these, 56% are […]
The first Microsoft innovation center in Uganda has been launched at the faculty if Information Technology at Makerere university Uganda the second country in the sub-Saharan African to have it. The center will encourage ICT innovations in Uganda, Software development for agriculture and mobile phones technology. Launched by the ICT minister Dr Ruhakana Rugunda, the […]
The Egyptian government is to pay all costs for the operation of a set of conjoined twins at Mulago hospital. The twins who were born early this year have been at Mulago for over three months and were expected to be operated on from there. However, Mulago’s Deputy Executive Director, Dr. Doreen Birabwa says the […]
Benedicto Kiwanuka (May 1922 – September 22, 1972) will be remembered by the Democratic Party mid next year according to sources sitting on DP National Executive Council. Kiwanuka is one of the founder members of DP and among the leaders who led the country in the transition between colonial British rule and independence. Kiwanuka was reportedly […]
It was bad luck for the three men yesterday when they fell prey to our intelligence after a tip off from a cooperative and patriotic Ugandan whose names I will not reveal for security reasons. Amadoi Peter from kitale in Kenya,Okello Ben from Palisa and Loito Ekadel from lokiliyama in kenya were nabbed with over 2000 […]
The Minister of works and transport industry engineer Ibrahim Byandala has announced plans by the government to construct a railway line joining Kampala to Juba. Speaking to journalist in Kampala today, engineer Byandala explained that the project will involve upgrading the existing line from Kampala to Gulu via the Teso sub region and then constructing […]
Uganda has today joinmed the rest of the World to mark the World’s population in an event that is to he held in Kayunga district. The secretary General for Uganda Parliamentary Forum for Population and Food Security Mathias Kasamba says that at the end of the year 2012, Uganda’s population will have increased by 3.2%, […]