Ugandan businessman Dr Sudhir Ruparelia won a big battle in a London Court of Appeal with ajudge throwing out an application by DFCU seeking to block a case exposing how the financialinstitution fraudulently bought Crane Bank (CB). The ruling paved the way for the full court trial that will potentially assist the world to know…
The circumstances that led to the birth of what we know presently as Equity Bank were both amazingly unique and intriguing. Dr James Mwangi, the brain behind East Africa’s currently only indigenous billion-dollar financial institution, got the idea from years of watching and seeing his widowed but hardworking mother, Grace Wairimu keeping and saving her…
When one meets the American Chamber of Commerce Uganda Chapter Vice President Meg Hilbert Jaquay, they would be immediately swept away by her homily approach and delicate smile. Meg, boasts of over 30 years of business leadership experience across the globe at the helm of management of several companies, though efforts to tick out at…
Multi-award-winning singer and Uganda National Musicians Federation president Edirissa Musuuza aka Eddy Kenzo and the Alure Suites Hotel formerly Serene Suites situated in Mutundwe, are now the most sought-after personalities of this week. This follows the news of the UNMF outfit being in readiness to receive a whopping 13 billion shillings plus meant for the…
Principal Judge, Dr Flavian Zeija has shot in his own goal, deploying Justice Stephen Mubiru to Mbale to handle a new criminal session, crediting the judge’s work ethic, exemplifying the boss of the commercial court is a rarest species of judges who can be counted on to handle big assignments given to him at short…
LONDON, Dec 7 (Reuters) – Britain paid Rwanda an additional 100 million pounds ($126 million) in April, on top of the 140 million pounds it previously sent, as the bill for its contested plan to relocate asylum seekers to the East African country continues to rise. The Rwanda scheme is at the centre of British…
As the new monumental Speke Resort Commonwealth Convention flings open its doors on January 10 next year well in time to host its maiden big client, the Non-Allied Movement [NAM] summit between January 15-20, the Bulletin Media takes a look at Dr Sudhir Ruparelia’s invaluable and patriotic role in marketing Uganda. Started in 1961, NAM…
Wise men stated that once a man finds himself in great danger of drowning, such a man will clutch on any straw. This has been proved true in the case of South Sudanese investor, Muhammad Hamid Aya.Faced with the impending auction of his hotel located in the leafy Upper Nakasero area of Kampala Capital City,…
Dr David Balondemu, the boss of Kampala District Land Boss, is at the receiving end of the viceof human rights abuse which he was trained for four years to avert.Intriguingly, the courts where he was trained to go to and defend people’s rights and freedomsfrom being abused are the ones currently at the very center…
Businessman Shukla Mukesh of Shumuk Enterprises is involved in one of the biggest court fights of his lifetime to stop DFCU from charging him double for the same loan he settled already. Justice Stephen, Head of the Commercial Division of the High Court, is expected to resolve the case on December 15. Crane Bank sold…
