All isn’t well at the Matuga-based DEI Pharma, a multi-billion pharmaceutical manufacturing enterprise based at Matugga along Kampala-Bombo Road.The company, which is meant to manufacture pharmaceutical products for both the local market and for export purposes, has about 100 employees.
WAKISO: POMP and excitement filled Budo Hill in Wakiso district as alumni, students, teachers and government officials gathered to celebrate the remarkable 120-years of King’s College Budo.The celebrations, characterized by music, dance and drama performances, begun with prayers led by t
Minister of State for General Duties Henry Musasizi speaking at the event.Kampala, Uganda — Uganda’s government says expanded access to finance and macroeconomic stability are helping drive a strong economic rebound, as officials push an ambitious plan to grow the country’s economy t
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has pledged to inject Shs1 billion into each mechanics’ Savings and Credit Cooperative Organisation (SACCO) operating within Kampala, in a move aimed at strengthening the informal automotive sector and improving access to affordable financing.The commitme
The logline for “The Carpenter’s Son” might be high-concept — Mary and Joseph try to protect a teen Jesus, whose burgeoning miracles seem like witchcraft to the community around him — but Nicolas Cage, who plays Joseph, says he had a very specific read on the Biblical horror movie.
Botswana has unveiled its first-ever Citizenship by Investment program, offering foreign investors the opportunity to acquire citizenship for $75,000 (approximately Shs288 million). The initiative, known as the Impact Investment Program is expected to officially begin in early 2026 as part
JUBA — South Sudan’s powerful Vice President, Dr. Benjamin Bol Mel, has been dismissed from all his government, military, and party positions following damning United Nations findings accusing him of orchestrating the large-scale plunder of the country’s oil wealth.A series of presid
Commissioners of Parliament who were in the news in 2023 and the better part of 2024 for awarding themselves a whooping Shs1.7bn with former Leader of Opposition Mathias Mpuuga taking the lion’s share with Shs500m and the other three commissioner Esther Afoyochan, Prossy Akampurira and Solomon
A recent whistleblower report has unveiled alleged widespread mismanagement and corruption within the National Agricultural Research Organization (NARO), casting a shadow over Uganda’s critical agricultural sector. These revelations come at a time when agricul
The Namulesa North Ward councilor in Jinja City, who belongs to the Opposition National Unity Platform (NUP) party has abandoned his seat and fled the country, citing alleged “persecution” from the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party officials. Joseph Ngobi, 25, popularly
