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The government’s plan to amend the current NSSF Act has caused uproar among the public in the past days. NSSF’s Managing Director, Richard Byarugaba, spoke to The Independent’s Isaac Khisa about the motives behind the proposed law and its implications to the members and economy. What does this NSSF Amendment …

The truth and the lies Kampala, Uganda | ISAAC KHISA AND JULIUS BUSINGE | Richard Byarugaba sits on the biggest pile of money in Uganda. He is the managing director of NSSF, the country’s only government-run compulsory pension savings scheme for workers valued at over Shs9.9 trillion as at June …

Kenya Reinsurance Corporation (Kenya Re) has set up a year-end deadline to open up a subsidiary in Kampala, according to its Chief Executive Officer, Jadiah Mwarania. Kampala, Uganda | ISAAC KHISA | Mwarania, who held an investor briefing in Nairobi on August.02 said the decision by countries such as Uganda, …

UK-based insurer in Uganda, Britam, has once again won a business deal with the government to provide insurance cover, this time for Uganda Airlines. Kampala, Uganda | ISAAC KHISA | Willis Towers Watson is the airlines’ insurance broker. Britam CEO, Allan Mafabi confirmed to The Independent on Aug.02 that they …

Uganda Airlines needs to come up with a strategy that will enable it capture a share of the regional aviation market Kampala, Uganda | ISAAC KHISA | A fierce battle is looming in the East African aviation market as Uganda’s national carrier, Uganda Airlines, takes to the skies on August. …

What does Museveni want and can new tough laws deliver it? Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE AND ISAAC KHISA | Regulate. Regulate. Regulate. Taxi ownership, regulate. Coffee and sugarcane growing regulate. Cesspool emptying, regulate. Belonging to political party, regulate. Quitting political party, regulate. In the past few months, the government …

Only developed countries including the US, China, India, some in Europe and South America have well–established gene banks Kampala, Uganda | ISAAC KHISA | For the recent decades, Africa’s indigenous animals such as the East Africa’s sinewy Ankole cattle; a product of the centuries of selection for traits adapted to …

Insurance could unlock finance in agribusiness; boost farmer’s productivity and incomes Kampala, Uganda | ISAAC KHISA | Christopher Elema, 40, a maize farmer in Kiryandongo District, located 225kms, north-west of Kampala, was in February this year paid Shs6.5million as compensation for his failed crop yields. He had planted 40 acres …

President Museveni supports exports to Kenya  Kampala, Uganda | ISAAC KHISA | On June 11, President Yoweri Museveni held a closed door meeting with the sugarcane farmers in Busoga sub-region at the Jinja state lodge a head of his planned Operation Wealth Creation campaign. Among those who attended the meeting …

  EU, FAO unveils a Shs 33.8 billion project to combat climate change in the cattle corridor Kampala, Uganda | ISAAC KHISA | The European Union in partnership with the Food and Agriculture Organization has unveiled a new five-year project that seeks to empower Uganda’s rural communities in most vulnerable …