Kampala, Uganda | ISAAC KHISA | Magoola Matthias, is the CEO Dei Group International, the firm behind social marketing platform, Dei places. He spoke to The Independent’s Isaac Khisa about social marketing to drive Uganda and Africa’s tourism potential. What is your management style as a manager? Management is a very …
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The new banking model is expected to deepen financial inclusion Kampala, Uganda | ISAAC KHISA | Uganda’s commercial banks have started rolling out agent banking following Kenya and Rwanda’s footsteps in an effort to grow deposits and customer base. This follows the coming into force of the Financial Institutions Act …
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New move expected to boost country’s insurance penetration Kampala, Uganda | ISAAC KHISA | For a long time, buying insurance policies in Uganda through commercial banks, also known as bancassurance, remained unthinkable. Policies were purchased directly from insurers’ branches or through brokers, a situation that had been blamed for a slowdown …
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Low private sector lending, decline in interest rates to take toll on the bank’s profitability for the year ending Dec 2017 Kampala, Uganda | ISAAC KHISA | Uganda’s commercial banks seem to be laying down new strategies as the industry anticipates to record subdued earnings in 2016 owed to low private …
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Kampala, Uganda | ISAAC KHISA | Sanlam General Insurance Uganda has appointed two senior executives in an ongoing re-organisation of the firm’s management following the US$6.5 million acquisition of Lion Assurance Company (LAC) and rebranding last month. Ambrose Kibuuka has been appointed as General Manager, Commercial Business Division and Donato Laboke, …
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Arthur Mukembo is the regional director for RE/MAX in East Africa, an international real estate brand established in 1973 in Denver, Colorado and now present in more than 100 countries and territories with a network of over 115,000 real estate professionals in 7,500 offices. He spoke to Isaac Khisa in …
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Kampala, Uganda | ISAAC KHISA | Uganda government plans to use the money it will get from the sale of a stake in the embattled telecom firm, UTL, to settle Libyan government and other debts. The Libyan government through a private company, Libyan Post, Telecommunication and Information Technology Holding Company (LPTIC) …
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UPDF deployment cited in the reduction in illegal fishing Kamapla, Uganda | ISAAC KHISA | Fish lovers can now enjoy the succulent white flesh of Nile Perch or Tilapia from Lake Victoria as the stocks recovers since the Uganda People’s Defence Forces under the Fisheries Protection Unit began policing the water …
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Kampala, Uganda | ISAAC KHISA | Liquid Telecom Uganda, part of the pan-African telecoms group Liquid Telecom, has partnered with The Innovation Village, a hub and co-working space in Kampala, to support Ugandan start-ups with high-speed internet and cloud-based services. Liquid Telecom Uganda, formerly known as Infocom, will work alongside The …
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The company records Shs 13.9bn loss in 2016 Kampala, Uganda | ISAAC KHISA | Uganda’s electricity generation company, UEGCL, has slipped back into loss making territory a year after it registered a substantial profit in 2015 but the executives say the company has better days ahead. Financial records released in Kampala …
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