The powerful people behind Bemanya Kampala, Uganda | HAGGAI MATSIKO | Uganda Telecom Ltd (UTL) looks like a typical company in shambles. In April 2017 it run to court to block a petition seeking to wound it up partly owing to Shs709 billion debts it had accumulated over the years. …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda Telecom administrator, Bemanya Twebaze says that the company is still accessible for investment following the exit of a Nigerian firm, Teleology Holdings Limited. The Nigerian firm which had been identified to revamp UTL following a cabinet directive failed to meet its contractual …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda Telecom administrator, Bemanya Twebaze has said that auditing of the company’s operations can only happen at the end of his administration. Twebaze denied that he had blocked any audit, but said that it was not the right time for government to carry out …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Government has lost control of Uganda Telecom. This was revealed by the State Minister for Investment and Privatization Evelyn Anite. On Thursday, Members of Parliament learnt that the Nigerian firm contacted to revamp UTL, Taleology Holdings GIB Ltd failed to meet its contractual …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Parliament’s Budget Committee has directed Uganda Registration Services Bureau (URSB) to redraft documents relating to the company and its shareholders. The directive by the Committee Chaired by Ntenjeru North MP Amos Lugoloobi followed a meeting between legislators, Minister of Finance Matia Kasaija, Works and …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Cooperators under their apex body, Uganda Cooperative Alliance are looking forward to the report by the Committee on Commissions, Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises (COSASE) to guide their next course of action on the defunct 1964 Cooperative Bank. Led by Ivan Asiimwe, the General Secretary …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Religious leaders under the umbrella of Joint Christian council from the greater Masaka sub-region have asked government to consider reviews in marriage registration fees. At the three-day conference with a team from the Uganda Registration Services Bureau-URSB at Brovad hotel in Masaka town, the religious …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Members of Parliament have adopted a report by the Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee endorsing a bill to facilitate credit for small borrowers and manage the risk of borrowing by the financial sector. The bill is envisaged to make credit affordable for Ugandans. According to …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda Registration Services Bureau (URSB) enforcement team has carried out three operations in downtown Kampala on Tuesday in search of counterfeit goods. The team was confiscated over 50 boxes of counterfeited biscuits from Kikuubo and Cooper Complex, a clear case of rising trade mark infringement. …
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How admiration for army life drove a young man’s inventive mind Samuel Mugarura, 24, a final year student of chemistry and botany attracted attention in 2016 when he unveiled teargas he says he made from a tiny store in his mother’s house using common items like onions, red pepper, and …
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