Local investors

Investment in arcades is overrated – Kyambade tells local investors

Investment in arcades is overrated – Kyambade tells local investors

The minister of trade and cooperatives Amelia Kyambadde has urged local investors to stop investing all their money in arcades and malls but to create more employment for the young generation. Kyambadde said this while welcoming the minister of state for trade Micheal Werikhe and the minister of state for cooperatives Frederick Gume to the ministry […]

Local investors asked to embrace private equity financing

Local investors asked to embrace private equity financing

Local investors in Uganda have been asked to embrace private equity financing and venture capital as alternative to  stimulate the slowing Uganda’s economy. The advise come at the time when Uganda’s economy is struggling to recover from election fever. According to the executive director Uganda Investment Authority Dr Frank Ssebowa, many local investors are running to […]

Youths petition parliament to ban importation of secondhand underwear

Youths petition parliament to ban importation of secondhand underwear

Youths Under their umbrella Organization Worldwide African Congress has petitioned parliament asking it to pass to bill entitled “Made in Africa Bill 2015” to ban the importation of secondhand underwear and bras. The youths who have displayed the secondhand underwear at Parliament say that they want a law that will prohibit the sale and exportation […]