The strategy by telecom giant MTN Telecommunications Company of getting Ugandans involved as partners in its activities has been described as very important by President Yoweri Museveni who said it allows Ugandans and Africans to be partners in all the…
PHOTO: Michael Atingi-Ego the Deputy Governor BOU, Wim Vanhelleputte the MTN Uganda CEO, Anne Jjuuko the Stanbic Bank Uganda CEO, Godfrey Baluku Kabyangga the State Minister for National Guidance, Irene Ssewankambo, the Executive Director UCC and Andrew Bugembe, the MTN…
Uganda Securities Exchange’s (USE) Securities Central Depository (SCD) and MTN Mobile Money have today unveiled a digital SCD account opening platform to further efforts towards financially including all Ugandans. A Securities Central Depository commonly referred to as an SCD account…
Born in 1963, Zena Khalila and her family fell victim to the Amin war, forcing them to flee their home in Uganda in search of refuge in South Sudan. Stuck in a foreign country, without education or a business, Khalila’s…
Sixty youth have successfully graduated having attained digital and technical skills in the first cohort of the MTN Foundation youth skilling program. The MTN Foundation youth skilling program is an initiative funded by MTN Foundation Uganda and implemented by Ubunifu…
National Curriculum Development Center (NCDC), the government body responsible for the development of educational curricula for primary, secondary and some tertiary institutions in Uganda has lauded MTN for its initiative to encourage learning from home by zero rating learning institution…
Stanbic Uganda Holdings Limited (SUHL), a member of the Standard Bank Group, has demonstrated business resilience, weathering through the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic to post a robust performance in the first half of 2021 with strong growth across all…
Equity has been named the Best Regional Bank in East Africa by the 2021 African Banker Awards. The award was conferred to the Bank for its strong and consistent financial performance, its role in leading the disruption of Fintech innovations…
MTN Uganda, in line with its vision of delivering a bold new digital world to its customers is set to transform Uganda’s homes into smart homes with MTN WakaNet MAX, a home Internet solution that offers affordable and reliable 4G…
MTN Uganda yesterday handed over sh15m to its 15 millionth customer, Jamirah Nalukwago, a resident of Kyanuuna village in Busunju County in Wakiso district. The cash prize to the 15 millionth customer is MTN Uganda’s way of celebrating the big…
Transformation of Uganda into a modern, prosperous society as laid out by the National Development Plan III will largely depend on how fast Uganda can harness, protect and utilize intellectual property, the Uganda Registration Services Bureau (URSB) Registrar General Mercy Kainobwisho…
The economy in general and the real estate sector specifically, remained subdued over the past one and a half years due to the lockdown restrictions that affected different sectors of the economy. In the previous property market report (H2-2020), the…
In a bid to mitigate the risk of COVID 19 infection due to physical contact between staff and public, National Identification and Registration Authority (NIRA) has digitalised a number of its services. “National Identification and Registration Authority (NIRA) wishes to inform…
The recently concluded nationwide 42-day lockdown intended to lessen the spread of a second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic across Uganda has added to the continued economic slowdown. The headline Stanbic Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) slipped to 34.6 in July,…
The signing of the Shareholder’s agreement of EACOP and the Tariff and Transportation Agreement by Uganda and Tanzania, resulted in a marked increase in inquiries across asset classes in Kampala. The aforementioned agreements opened the way for the development of…