Author: Johnson Thembo

Centenary Bank Uganda has this morning signed a Loan Portfolio Guarantee agreement with the African Guarantee Fund to fund SMEs in Uganda with credit worth USD 10 Million. Speaking to the Media at Mapeera House, Centenary Bank Managing Director Mr. Fabian Kasi revealed that the 5-year partnership aims to unlock financing intended to facilitate the promotion, growth and development of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in Uganda. “We thank the African Guarantee Fund for choosing to partner with Centenary Bank, as a bank that serves the community we are always seeking ideal partners with whom we can better serve our customers”.…

President Museveni together with the First Lady and their entire our family joined the faithful at Nshwerenkye Church of Uganda in Kiruhura District. This Christmas service was led by Rev. Meshach Kihondwa. Speaking to the congregation, Museveni congratulated all Ugandans for making it to Christmas and coming to the close of the year. “My call to Ugandans is to utilize your talents. Importantly, I urge you to use the stability the country enjoys to improve your individual income stations.” Museveni noted adding that In the agriculture sector, it is increasingly clear that people are applying themselves to the fullest. The…

Friends in Uganda and abroad, The festive season is here and the new year is near! May this season be a blessing to you and your family, and may the new year bring good tidings to you and your family. I cannot thank you enough for your friendship, solidarity and comradeship. My prayer is that we keep united, focused and courageous as we strive to build a better Uganda. Merry Christmas and happy new year.

All is not lost for the Uganda Sand Cranes despite the slim 5-4 slip to Burundi on match day three of the 2019 Copa Dar es Salaam beach soccer championship at Coco beach in Tanzania. Moussa Masud as well as a brace apiece from Amissi Niyonkuru and Aboubakar Ndayishimiye elevated Burundi to their third victory at the championship. Douglas Muganga, Suleiman Ochero, Faizal Muwawu and Ronald Magwali got the goals for Uganda Sand Cranes on a day that rained goals at the Coco beach facility. Earlier, Malawi lost 8-9 to Seychelles in the game that has so far produced most…

It was a thrilling moment as Fortebet customers from Mbikko, Lugazi, Kiyindi, Mbalala and Namawojjolo won themselves a lot of Christmas gifts over last weekend. “I know everyone is in high moods to welcome the Lord. This is why Fortebet is adding colour onto this mood by giving as many clients as possible a number of gifts because we want to celebrate with everyone,” said John Nanyumba, Fortebet Media manager. Like it has done elsewhere, even last weekend Fortebet visited the above centres and rewarded its punters with Fortebet pens, wristbands, caps, T-shirts and team jerseys of the top European…

arliament of Uganda had a good year in 2019 with the major highlight being the successful hosting of the 64th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference (CPC). According to Speaker Rebecca Kadaga, the well-attended event held from 23 to 29 September 2019 attracted a lot of debate that focused on improving the Commonwealth states, and was overall, good for Uganda. “The delegates gave us very good feedback and many have written to commend Parliament and individual officers who worked with them including those from security agencies,” said Kadaga. She also said that the EAC games that concluded Parliament’s major events were well attended…

A section of MPs are dismayed by what they have described as public humiliation of the Deputy Head of Operation Wealth Creation, Lt Gen Charles Angina by Security Minister, Gen Elly Tumwine. On Saturday morning, a video clip fired up social media, showing Gen Tumwine reprimanding a visibly subdued Lt Gen Angina for the alleged wrongful deployment of UPDF officers to intervene in a city land wrangle.MP Elijah Okupa started the debate. “The Commander in Chief [President Yoweri Museveni] should take action against Gen Tumwine; how can he say don’t mess with our army? Does it mean there are others…

The 10th East African Community Inter-Parliamentary Games which have been taking place in Kampala ended with a cultural dinner in honour of all the participating delegates on the 18 December 2019. The games organised and hosted by Parliament of Uganda saw Members and staff of Parliament take part in football, netball, basketball, athletics, golf, tug of war and darts started on the 08 December 2019. At the closing glamourous dinner held at Hotel Africana, there were calls for the fast tracking of the East African Community integration process citing sports as one of the avenues. The Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca…

The Mityana Municipality MP, Francis Zaake, has defended himself against allegations of threatening Makerere University Vice Chancellor, Prof. Barnabas Nawangwe, arguing that the ongoing investigations are aimed at diverting the public’s attention from what happened during the strike at the university. Zaake, who appeared before Parliament’s Committee on Rules, Privileges and Discipline, said that the recent strike at Makerere exposed the poor administration and management at the University and the torture of students by armed forces, which are being shielded from scrutiny by the investigation. “To the best of my knowledge I did not behave in a non-parliamentary manner, I…

First Lady Janet and together with the president of Uganda hosted 400 sportspeople, officials and teachers to a luncheon and later dinner at State House Entebbe, as we celebrated what has been a great sporting year for Uganda. Briefly, Uganda was ranked 9th best in the World Athletics Championship, 3rd in Africa Athletics, 6th in World Netball, qualified for the Africa Cup of Nations in Cairo and emerged winner in the East Africa Schools Championships in Arusha and the Interforces Games in Nairobi. There were other sporting successes in other fields like boxing, swimming, rowing, woodball, rugby, among others. I congratulate…