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Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Julius Businge  |  In a bid to strengthen its brand focus, create an excellent customer experience and give back to its dedicated service staff, Jibu, a social enterprise, has recognised these categories of its stakeholders.   The company said in a notice that this was …

It could mean more than just dress COMMENT | GARHE OSIEBE | Across Africa, politicians are using personal fashion to communicate. From red berets, to all-khaki ensembles, to full-on cosplaying, leaders across the continent have a robust relationship with fashion. Despite their larger-than-life impact, politicians are humans. Fashion is useful to …

    COMMENT | Hillary Turyatunga | Uganda’s efforts to join the Extractives Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) that were first expressed in the 2008 National Oil and gas policy recently saw Uganda joining the initiative, making it the 54th country in the world and 26th in Africa to subscribe. EITI is a …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Khisa Isaac | Coca-Cola Beverages Africa in Uganda represented by Plastic Recycling industries under Rwenzori Bottling Company has signed a conservation partnership with the Tooro Kingdom to ‘Save River Mpanga’. The conservation partnership, signed at the Coca-Cola Platform at the UMA Showgrounds in Lugogo, Kampala, …

African executives must understand the missing piece to enabling broader-based prosperity COMMENT | CARL MANLAN AND EFOSA OJOMO | Eradicating poverty and boosting prosperity in Africa starts in the boardroom. And it requires African business leaders to use their positions to foster more inclusive economic growth that benefits all stakeholders …

Why you should invest more in financial assets even if many Ugandans tend to favor real assets COMMENT | HASSAN KITENDA | Money has been a pivotal factor for all human activity and the desire to make money has persisted from time immemorial. In today’s world we are given endless …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | JULIUS BUSINGE | Mastercard, a global technology company in the payments industry, has launched Fintech Express in the Middle East and Africa, a program designed to facilitate emerging fintechs’ launch and expansion, it said in a Sept.29 statement. Leveraging the power of partnerships and Mastercard’s …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Julius Businge |  Standard Chartered Bank Uganda in partnership with their NGO partner, Challenges Worldwide have launched the scale-up of the Youth to Work (Y2W) programme worth Shs920million, it said on Sept.29.  Youth to Work is a flagship employability programme which was launched in 2019 …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Julius Businge | Nalubaale Power Plant has received an upgraded compressed air governor system which will improve the overall plant operations, executives at Eskom Uganda Limited, the operators of the facility said on Sept.25 in a media release.  Company executives said the system is a …

  COMMENT | Michael Jjingo | Certainly, the best innovations are created in response to specific, urgent, and significant problems, with a long-term focus. In some ways, the Covid-19 crisis has made our most urgent problems and their potential solutions more obvious. For example, health care providers needed masks; some …