Business & Finance

URA to auction 100 vehicles on Friday

The Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) will sell hundreds of goods/vehicles at a public auction scheduled for Friday June 25th 2010 at Nakawa Customs Warehouse Kampala at 9:00am. The Acting Commissioner in charge of Customs at URA, Phoebe Lutaaya Kamya says URA will auction the goods/vehicles in pursuant to section 42 (i) of the East African […]

Uganda Warid Telecom chief says East African Common Market will not help the industry much

The Chief Executive Officer of Warid Telecom in Uganda Madhur Taneja has indicated that the Coming East Africa Common Market slated to start operational on July 21st 2010 among the five East Africa Community block member countries will not help much to boost the Uganda Telecommunications sector because of the nature of the business. The […]

Africa 5th Big Brother Reality TV show coming soon

M-net Television is slated to kick start the screening of another big brother TV reality show dubbed the 5th edition of M-net’s Big Brother Africa a few days after the 2010 South African World Cup show. The show which is popular with many East African youth will start on 18th July 2010. It will be […]

Uganda Communications Commission to have ICT public dialogue in West Nile

The Uganda Communications Commission has organised a public dialogue in West Nile aimed at raising awareness about the role of Information and Communication Technology in the development of communication in Uganda. The dialogue will take place in the three districts in the West Nile and those are Arua, Nebbi and Koboko and this consumer empowerment […]

Tullow Oil decries fraudulent activities in Uganda

Tullow Uganda has decried the increasing prevalence of fraudulent activities taking place within Kampala, the capital city of the Republic of Uganda. The General Manager and Director Tullow Uganda Operations Pty Ltd, Brian Glover says there are scores of fraudsters whose objective is to obtain money through misrepresentation or false pretense from unsuspecting people. Glover […]

Uganda government, Heritage oil feud deepens

A row between the government of Uganda and a British Heritage Oil Company over taxes has deepened with the Uganda Energy and minerals minister insisting that Heritage Oil Company must pay taxes to receive an endorsement from the Uganda government over the sale of its Western Uganda oil wells to Tullow Company. Heritage Oil Company […]

Kenyan company to train people in e-Marketing

  The Kenyan training firm, Dolphins Group is organizing an e-Marketing training course for East Africans to enable them properly market their products and services using the Internet. The training to be held from 8th to 9th July 2010 at Sarova Panafric Hotel in Kenya Capital City of Nairobi will cost Kenyan Shillings 36,000. People […]

Uganda MP expresses doubts over Keep Kampala Clean project

The Member of Parliament for Kampala Central, Elias Lukwago is highly skeptical of the newly launched Kampala City Council (KCC) project to keep the city Clean. KCC recently launched the Keep Kampala Clean project that has costed KCC about 13 billion Uganda Shillings. The project aims at riding the city of filthy outlook. Lukwago told […]

Uganda parliament Speaker urges MPs to join SACCO

The Deputy Speaker of Uganda Parliament Rebbecca Kadaga has urged Members of Parliament to join the Parliamentary SACCO and give it a reasonable number of members to enable it grow. SACCO’s are saving and credit cooperative organizations which were started by the government of Uganda to enable people get the required start up capital for […]

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