Author: Johnson Thembo
HiPipo, through its Include Everyoneprogram is delighted to celebrate global business leaderBill Gates with a Digital Impact Awards Africa honor, the ‘Africa’s Financial Inclusion Medal of Honor.’ The Africa Financial Inclusion Medal of Honor is awarded to an individual or organization that is has made exceptional contribution to Africa’s Digital space, by specifically taking lead in ensuring that there is provision of affordable, reliable and accessible financial services across the continent. According to GSMA 2018 report, mobile money is now available in 100 countries through over 300 services globally. The number of verified mobile money accounts is reaching a total…
Parents have been urged to provide sufficient time to children so as to shape their character to become responsible citizens. According to the Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, parents especially women, play a major role in the proper growth of a child in a home, from the time they are in the womb to when they are grown. “Ugandan parents these days have often absconded their duty of raising their children because they come back from work late, and they leave it to the teachers and the maids. Parents need to take more responsibility of shaping their children’s character,” said…
Equity Group Holdings Plc has launched a new brand identity that reflects a streamlined financial services provider positioned as a catalyst for the development of the region. The Group has unveiled a new unified brand identity, signalling its next frontier in delivering a seamless customer experience across markets and across demographic segments. Speaking when unveiling the new identity in Nairobi, Equity Group Managing Director and CEO Dr James Mwangi said, “The new identity matches the new realities, business model, customer segments and preferences, and the evolving digital space. It has preserved the essence of the Group’s brand retaining the best…
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has continued to echo his voice on unnecessary arrests against the youth. According to the issued last week, Museveni noted its high time the police force stoped arresting Ugandans on Idle and Disorderly charges. “Since some time ago, even in the time of Gen. Kale Kayihura, I had had occasion to warn the Police about the anti-people and colonial practice of the Police arresting our people, especially the youth, for a nonsensical so-called crime of “idle and disorderly”.” Museveni. Museveni wondered why this should be a crime, “If I am unemployed and I hang about the…
Senior commanders and directors under Land Forces of the Uganda Peoples’ Defence Forces (UPDF) have completed a two day basic and combat fitness tests conducted at Land Forces headquarters in Bombo, Luwero district The exercise was supervised by fitness experts from UPDF’s Chieftaincy of Medical Services and Directorate of Sports. The participants included the Commander Land Forces (CLF), Lt Gen Peter Elwelu with all directors under Land Forces, Division Commanders, Brigade Commanders, Battalion Commanders and other officers who came from units and other services. The participants went through a 5 Km run, push-ups and sit-ups as part of the basic…
Students that have been attending Maritime Search and Rescue have been urged to strengthen the African cooperation as they put in practice the knowledge acquired from the training. The Deputy Commander Land Force Maj Gen Sam Kavuma made this call while closing a two weeks training of 25 officers and men of the ten participating countries conducted at Imperial Botanical Beach Hotel Entebbe. The Eastern Africa Standby Force (EASF)Maritime Search and Rescue course has been ongoing from 23rd Sep 2019 with participants from Burundi, Comoros, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Seychelles,Somalia, Sudan and Uganda. The Deputy Commander complemented the continued financial…
Walimu Cooperative Savings and Credit Union Limited will receive over shs7 billion in fulfilment of the presidential pledge of shs25 billon. The State Minister for Finance, Hon David Bahati said that the money will be channeled from to the teachers’ SACCO from the Microfinance Support Centre. “The resources that were supposed to go to the teachers’ Sacco went to Microfinance Support Centre on the account that it could be administered well there,” said Bahati. He added that structures had since been put in pace under the Walimu SACCO capable of handling the money. Bahati revealed that some of the money…
The Stanbic Purchase Managers Index (PMI) for September shows that private sector activity remained in growth territory at the end of the third quarter of the year. The survey, sponsored by Stanbic Bank and produced by IHS Markit, indicates that ability of firms to secure additional customers resulted in higher new orders and a subsequent expansion of business activity. Meanwhile, both input costs and output prices continued to increase. The headline PMI was 55.7 in September, down from 57.5 in August, but still above the 50.0 no-change mark. Stanbic Bank Fixed Income managerBenoni Okwenje, commented: “Private sector activity remains solid…
Mental Health Uganda has appointment Journalist Pat Robert LARUBI as their new Communications Officer where he is expected to oversee the day to day general communication needs of the organization. Pat joins Mental Health Uganda following a successful term working as a disability blog/ media consultant with National Union of Disabled Persons of Uganda (NUDIPU) where he focused on popularizing the inclusion of persons with disability in Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), 1, 2 and 11. Prior to that, he was engrossed in his activism work with Pats Journal, an online, media and human rights Non-governmental organization working towards inclusion, ending…