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The prize and perils for the next occupant of the hottest seat in Uganda’s private independent media sector COMMENT | JOSEPH WERE | Monitor Publications Ltd is again managing director hunting after Tony Glencross announced he was leaving after eight years in the hot seat. Watching the coming and going of …

The Fund targets to increase contributors from the current 10% to 50% of the country’s workforce during the same period Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | National Social Security Fund hopes to increase its assets from the current Shs 18.4 trillion to Shs 50 trillion by 2035, according to the Fund’s …

Kampala, Uganda | THEINDEPENDENT | On March 16, the Board of Directors of Bank of Baroda (Uganda) Limited informed its shareholders and the general public that Raj Kumar Meena had resigned as the Managing Director of the Company effective 15th March 2023. Raj Kumar Meena was appointed as Bank of Baroda Managing …

Kampala, Uganda | Julius Businge | Airtel Uganda has announced the planned departure of their managing director Anwar Soussa in a notice shared on Aug. 09. According to the notice, Soussa, who took up this role in June last year, is leaving as a result of a personal decision to take …

By Adetokunbo O. Lucas, MD Eliminating the menace of Neglected Tropical Diseases Though much of the world has never heard of diseases like lymphatic filariasis or schistosomiasis, these and other neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are a daily reality for many living in Africa and across the world. These terrible diseases …