Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police at Makerere University are hunting for a fraudster who disappeared with Sh2 million belonging to a new student (fresher), who gave it to him after he offered to miraculously double it. It was the student’s tuition fees. Campus police have also revealed …
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FULL TIME: 🇺🇬 Uganda 0 🇧🇫 Burkina Faso 0 🇸🇸 South Sudan 0 🇲🇼 Malawi 1 Dennis ONYANGO [GK+C] Nicholas WADADA Joseph OCHAYA Halid LWALIWA Murushid JJUKO Taddeo LWANGA Abdu LUMALA (Orit Ibrahim) Mike AZIRA (Moses Waisswa) Patrick KADDU (Bayo) Emmanuel OKWI Faruku MIYA Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT & …
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It plans to increase the number to five in the next 4-5 years Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | Carrefour, owned and operated by Majid Al Futtaim has opened a second store in Uganda at Naalya, along the Northern Bypass, some 11kilometres out of Kampala city centre. Spanning over 2,050 …
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Commodity, tourism dependent economies likely to remain vulnerable over the next 12-18 months | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda’s commercial banks have recorded a sharp drop in the outstanding restructured loans from Shs7.7trillion in June to Shs4.8trillion in Dec, 2020, signaling improvement in the borrower’s ability to meet their loan obligations, …
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What the company plans for years to come Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | MTN Uganda recorded 9.5% surge in revenue to Shs1.98 trillion in 2020 amidst the effects of COVID-19, citing a sharp growth in customer subscribers. The company’s subscriber numbers increased by 12.3% to 14.2 million, up …
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📌 TODAY 🇺🇬 Uganda vs Burkina Faso 🇧🇫 LIVE UBC 4pm 📌 NEXT MATCH 🇲🇼 Malawi vs Uganda 🇺🇬 March 29 Startling lineup for #Uganda vs #BurkinaFaso Dennis ONYANGO [GK+C] Nicholas WADADA Joseph OCHAYA Halid LWALIWA Murushid JJUKO Taddeo LWANGA Abdu LUMALA Mike AZIRA Patrick KADDU Emmanuel OKWI Faruku MIYA …
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Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | A United Kingdom funded online child abuse campaign that aims to remove sexual abuse content targeting children is taking root in Uganda, according to International Watch Foundation (IWF), which is behind it. In an interview with The Independent, the International Development Officer for IWF, Zoe …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda Prisons officials have today 23rd March, 2020 started receiving the Covid-19 vaccination jabs. They were led by Commissioner General, Dr. Johnson Byabashaijja in the exercise. This is a continuation of the vaccination exercise that started three weeks ago targeting priority groups including health workers, security personnel and …
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Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | KCB Bank Uganda Limited, has appointed Ramla Nantongo, a seasoned banker, as head corporate banking. She joins KCB Bank from NCBA Bank (formerly NC Bank) where she was heading the Corporate and Commercial business units. Her appointment comes a week after Agnes Namyalo …
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Report shows how dictators exploited COVID-19 to quash opposition Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | In 2018, the American democracy advocacy NGO, Freedom House, gave Uganda a score of 37% in its Freedom in the World Report and labeled the country “partly free”. Then in its 2019 report, Uganda’s score …
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