Business

Stanbic Bank Uganda has today launched the ‘Now-Now loans’ campaign aimed at offering customers quick and affordable loans to overcome financial challenges in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. Grace Muliisa, the Stanbic Bank’s Head...

Business conditions deteriorated for the Ugandan private sector during January due to a reduction in new orders which caused a fall in employment as the country went through the General Elections period.  For the first...

In January 2019, UN Women and Standard Bank Group partnered to form a Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) programme aimed at empowering more than 50,000 women farmers in Uganda, Malawi, Nigeria and South Africa to take up...

Intellectual property (IP) protection has been deemed critical for protecting Uganda’s proprietary designs, processes, and inventions that, if leaked to competitors or made public, could ruin the country’s market advantage across the world. This call...

Last year Parliament approved loans to the tune of 18.69 trillion Shillings last, according to the report detailing the business transacted by the House in the year 2020. The approved loans are up from the...

The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), Africa’s leading philanthropy dedicated to empowering African entrepreneurs, has opened applications on its TEFConnect digital platform (www.tefconnect.com) for the entrepreneurship program of 2021. Applications for TEF 2021 went live on...

Equity Group has crossed the Ksh.1,000,000,000,000 rubicon becoming the first bank in Eastern and Central Africa to cross this mark. The milestone was achieved upon successful migration of BCDC to Equity’s Finacle core banking platform....

Equity Uganda, a wholly owned subsidiary of Equity Group Holdings has today unveiled a new identity in line with Equity Group Holdings’ ongoing transformation journey. The new identity is aimed at creating a sustainable growth...

The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), Africa’s leading philanthropy committed to empowering young African entrepreneurs, has announced a partnership with the European Union to identify, train, mentor and fund 2,500 young African women entrepreneurs in 2021. ...

One time Local event guru and entertainment hub owner , Elvis Sekyanzi Wavamuno , is set to lose his multi billion shillings properties for failure to service outstanding debts to a top financial institution, explains...