Stanbic Bank has donated Shs 18 million to Bishop Dunstan Secondary School in Kalangala. The donation includes 50 modern classroom desks valued at Shs 12.5M and 250 reusable sanitary pads worth Shs 5.5m. The support is part of the Stanbic Corporate Social Investment initiatives aimed at improving the learning environment and promoting menstrual hygiene for…
President Museveni has thanked Standard Chartered Bank for supporting imfrastructure development in the country. Museveni, swhile meeting top officials from the bank at State House Entebbe said the bank should now concentrate on financing wealth creation because it will expand production. “If you make a road or Standard Gauge Railway but do not have enough…
Two city lawyers have come out and condemned Barnabas Ndawula, a fellow advocate, for impersonating the Kabaka in a land case. In 2019, it was discovered that Ndawula, while working as the head of the legal department at Buganda Land Board signed a consent judgment as “Kabaka” in a land case. According to the case,…
Next Media has suspended its senior news anchor Samson Kasumba, following his posts on X warning young people not to participate in yesterday’s demo, sources have told us. Reliable sources at Naguru told us Kasumba was suspended after a top management meeting yesterday decided that his posts on the demo had breached the Next Media’s…
After days of huffing and puffing, Priscilla Zawedde, commonly known as Azawi, has deleted her social media posts that were critical of government’s handling of today’s protests. In recent days, Azawi had taken social media by storm, urging young people to participate in the March to Parliament today. She has also condemned the high-handedness of…
Samson Kasumba, a senior news anchor at NBS TV and a social media rabble-rouser, has told young people intending to march to Parliament tomorrow to do so at their risk. Youths are planning to demonstrate outside Parliament to express their displeasure about the high levels of corruption and misuse of public resources. Whereas the Constitution…
In a ruling that could trigger a flood of suits, the High Court in Mbarara has today ordered a Total fuel station to pay a client Shs 104 million after the pump attendant filled his Range Rover with petrol instead of diesel. The complainant, Dr. Vincent Owarwo sued the petrol station seeking special and general…
Generation Seven, a pressure group affiliated to the NRM, has urged youth not to attend the planned March2Parliament scheduled for July 23. Police, too, warned that they will not entertain the demo organized by youth activists to highlight misuse of public resources by Parliament and other institutions. Addressing the media today, Stephen Mukasa, the coordinator…
President Museveni has launched Lake Victoria Logistics, a company aiming at reducing the cost of transporting fuel in Uganda. Lake Victoria Logistics was founded in May 2015 as Mahathi Infra Uganda with a vision to change the petroleum logistics for Uganda and other landlocked countries like Rwanda, Burundi and DRC that get their oil through…
Catherine Poran has been appointed as chief executive of Stanbic Business Incubator, replacing Tony Otoa who left four months ago to take up the role of Chief Corporate Affairs Officer at the Uganda National Oil Company (UNOC). Poran’s appointment took effect on July 1, 2024, 2024. According to a statement from the bank Poran “brings…
