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Position yourselves for Gulu Logistics Hub- Merian Sebunya

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Geoffery Serugo
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Merian Sebunya, the board chairperson who is accused of intimidating staff in disregard of the law.

The chairperson National Logistics platform and board member Private Sector Foundation (PSFUG) Merian Sebunya has asked the residents of Gulu to prepare and position themselves for the opportunities that Gulu Logistics Hub will present.

Sebunya made the remarks onsite inspection ahead of the proposed construction of over Shs30.96 billion ($8.8m) Gulu Logistics Hub. “The only way, the community would fully benefit from this project, is by directly involving themselves in pre and post construction process,”

According to Gerald Ekinu an official from Ministry of Works and Transport, they finalized feasibility stage, undertaking design. Kintu who appreciated funders of the project said, all stakeholders will be involved in the design stage to ensure sustainability.

He noted that land within the railway area is government so no one will be compensated by the Chief Valuer but instead other those who land will be encroached will be compensated accordingly if their land is used.
The Gulu Logistics Hub will consist of Custom offices, container cleaning and repair, gate complex, railway siding, vehicle holding area and traffic flows, perimeter walls, access road, weigh in motion bridge, container freight station (CFS), and administration complex.

The Hub is timely coming at a moment when Trade Mark East Africa, UK government and Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) are working on the Elegu- Nimule One Stop Border Post (OSBP), a new facility connecting Uganda and South Sudan.

Site plan covers 20867 square meters container yard, 3091 square meters container freight station, 1385 square meters administration, square meters customs office, 4206 sq. meters railway siding,12.261 square meters vehicle holding area, 500 square meters Container cleaning and repair station.

Acting Country Director for Trade Mark East Africa Damali Ssali underline the significance of the Hub saying it is expected to improve capacity of transport infrastructure in Northern Uganda to serve markets in South Sudan, Northern Uganda and parts of DRC.

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Muntu, others quit FDC party

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Isaiah Mwebaze
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Gen. Mugisha Muntu.

Former Forum for Democratic Change party president, Maj. Gen. Mugisha Muntu and others have quit.
Muntu who seem to have been angered by the defeat of Eng. Patrick Oboi Amuriat has today officially announced that he and others will immediately cease to be members of the FDC party.

Others include Alice Alaso who has been lined as Vice President for Eastern Uganda of the yet to be named party while Kyadondo East legislator Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine is said to be lined up for Vice President Buganda Region.

Former Leader of Opposition and Kasese Woman Member of Parliament Winnie Kizza will be representing Western Uganda as Vice President. Muntu and his gathering haven’t picked a name for Northern Uganda.

In his tweet, Muntu says they will address the press conference on Thursday to brief the country on the new party and its members.

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Fixtures for 2018/19 StarTimes Uganda Premier League season released

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Our Reporter
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StarTimes UPL logo

The 2018/19 Uganda Premiere League season gets under way on the Friday, 28 September 2018 and the first round fixtures have been finally released.

Seven matches will be played on Friday, the opening day while one game will be played on Saturday.
Reigning champions Vipers will host newcomers Ndejje University, KCCA will be at home against Tooro United (formerly Soana FC), URA host Paidha Black Angels at Namboole while Bright Stars host Maroons in Mwererwe.

On the same day, sixteen time record champions SC Villa Jogoo will travel away to Jinja against Kirinya Jinja SS. Onduparaka hosts Nyamityobora while Mbarara City host Express at a venue yet to be confirmed.

Two games will be shown Live on match day one; Vipers Vs Ndejje and Police against Bul on Friday and Saturday respectively.

Matchday one fixtures;
Friday September 28, 2018
KCCA Vs Tooro United, StarTimes stadium, Lugogo
URA Vs Paidha Black Angels, Namboole stadium
Vipers Vs Ndejje University, St. Mary’s stadium, Kitende
Bright Stars Vs Maroons, Champions Stadium, Mwererwe
Onduparaka vs Nyamityobora, Green Light stadium, Arua
Mbarara City vs Express FC, To Be Confirmed
Kirinya Jinja SS Vs SC Villa, Arena of Visions, Jinja

Saturday September 29, 2018
Police FC Vs Bul FC, StarTimes stadium, Lugogo 4pm

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FIFA Best Awards 2018: Full list of winners and how Cranes captain, coach voted

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Our Reporter
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Luka Modric with the #TheBest Award for best player

The 2018 FIFA Best Football Awards ceremony took place at the London Royal Festival Hall yesterday evening in England. The awards were previously called the FIFA Ballon d’Or Awards.

Croatia and Real Madrid midfielder Luka Modric scooped his first individual FIFA accolade, beating Mohamed Salah and Cristiano Ronaldo to become the first player other than Ronaldo and Lionel Messi to win since Kaka in 2007.

Modric took the top honour with 29.05 percent of the vote, with Ronaldo receiving 19.08 percent and Salah 11.23 percent.
Messi voted his rival Ronaldo in third place, with Kylian Mbappe in second place and Modric in first.

However, Ronaldo opted not to vote for Messi at all, placing his former Real Madrid team-mate Raphael Varane in first, with Modric second and Antoine Griezmann in third.
Uganda National team captain Denis Onyango voted for Kylian Mbappé in first, Modric in second and Cristiano Ronaldo in third.

Coach Desabre voted for Mbappe, Hazard and Messi in first, second and third respectively.
The award was decided by national team coaches and captains, select members of the media and online voting.

The awards have been previously called the FIFA Ballon d’Or since 2010 and ran for six consecutive years.

Fifa decided not to renew the deal in 2016, meaning the Ballon d’Or lost its ‘Fifa tag’ and reverted back to being voted for by journalists as a separate award in 2017, as The Best FIFA Awards were created.

The full list of the winners:
Men’s Player: Luka Modric
Women’s Player: Marta
Men’s Coach: Didier Deschamps
Women’s Coach: Reynald Pedros
Goalkeeper: Thibaut Courtois
Puskas Award: Mo Salah’s goal against Everton
Fan Award: Peru supporters
Fair Play Award: Lennart Thy
World11: David De Gea; Dani Alves, Marcelo, Sergio Ramos, Raphael Varane; Eden Hazard, N’Golo Kante, Luka Modric; Cristiano Ronaldo, Kylian Mbappe, Lionel Messi.

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Firm bags Sh29.5b to supply jet fuel to WFP bases in Uganda and DRC

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George Mangula
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Dalbit International South Sudan, a fuel company, has secured petroleum deals worth Shs29.5 billion to supply jet fuel to World Food Programme (WFP) bases in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

The WFP bases are in Gulu, Northern Uganda and Goma in the Eastern part of DRC. The Gulu tender IS estimated at Shs25.4 billion while Goma’s valuation is worth about Shs4.1 billion
John Paul Ogondi, the company’s Country Business Manager said: “We are excited that Dalbit has secured the contract to supply WFP in Gulu and Goma and this works well with our commitment to fuelling regional growth across the social and economic development fronts.”

The company says it has completed the construction of a brand new operating depot in Gulu with a capacity to hold more than 720,000 litres of Jet A1 products. It is also preparing to build and operate a depot to world-class standards in Goma to facilitate the smooth execution of the tender. The operations will include a compact refuelling bowser configured to serve various types of aircraft.

It says at the Goma depot, engineering works are at an advanced stage to complete the fabrication of two petroleum products holding tanks. Each of them, with a capacity of 1 million litres, will be connected to ancillary infrastructure including a purpose-built fuelling bay with a further two storage tanks for Jet A1 and Gasoil fuels.

The company operates four depots in Juba, Rumbek, Wau and Bor with a storage capacity of over 6 million litres for Gasoil and Jet-A14.
“In such remote areas, Dalbit is deploying tailor-made solutions including customised product delivery options to enable WFP to meet its humanitarian mandate efficiently and cost-effectively,” Mr. Ogondi said.

Founded in 2004, Dalbit has carved a niche as an energy solutions provider in frontier regions as it uses the state of the art facilities and has positioned itself as a progressive petroleum supply company delivering competitive and cost-efficient energy solutions across the continent.

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FIFA Best Awards 2018: Ballon d’Or winner to be announced today

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Our Reporter
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Soccer Football - The Best FIFA Football Awards - London Palladium, London, Britain - October 23, 2017 Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo celebrates after winning The Best FIFA Men’s Player Award as FIFA President Gianni Infantino and former Argentina player Diego Maradona look on REUTERS/Eddie Keogh

The prestigious Best Fifa Football Awards return tonight in England to find out who has been the best player in the World this year.
Real Madrid star Luka Modric is the player with the best chance of being named the men’s player of the year having won the Best Player in Europe a month ago.

Cristiano Ronaldo has also been nominated for player of the year prize, with Liverpool and Egypt hero Mohamed Salah completing the three nominees’ shortlist.
Since 2008, it has been a competition between Messi and Ronaldo and both players have won the prestigious award five times each. Messi misses out on the final three shortlist for the first time since 2008.

There was also no place for any member of France’s World Cup winning squad.
The awards to be offered this year include; The Best Fifa Men’s Player, The Best Fifa Women’s Player, The Best Fifa Men’s Coach, The Best Fifa Women’s Coach, The Best Fifa Goalkeeper, The Fifa Fair Play Award, The Fifa Puskás Award, The Fifa Fan Award and The Fifa Fifpro World11.
The main award of the evening will be the ‘Best Fifa Men’s Player’ award, which is Fifa’s equivalent of the prestigious Ballon d’Or.

The first awarding ceremony was held on 9 January 2017 in Zurich, Switzerland. The award is aimed at reviving the FIFA World Player of the Year, which was merged with France Football’s Ballon d’Or in 2010 to become the FIFA Ballon d’Or in a six-year partnership.
Cristiano Ronaldo won the Ballon D’or last year, beating Messi and Griezmann to the prize.
This year’s ceremony will be held at the Royal Festival Hall, in London.

Selected Categories:
The Best Fifa Men’s Player: Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal/Juventus), Luka Modric (Real Madrid, Croatia) Mohamed Salah (Liverpool, Egypt)
The Best Fifa Goalkeeper: Thibaut Courtois (Chelsea/Real Madrid), Hugo Lloris (France/Tottenham) Kasper Schmeichel (Denmark/Leicester)
The Best Fifa Men’s Coach: Zlatko Dalic (Croatia), Didier Deschamps (France), Zinedine Zidane (Real Madrid)

Fifa Fan Award: Peru’s passionate World Cup supporters are nominated for the fans prize, as are the Japanese and Senegalese supporters who cleaned up stadiums themselves in Russia.
Fifa Puskas Award: Gareth Bale (Real Madrid vs Liverpool), Denis Cheryshev (Russia vs Croatia),
Lazaros Christodoulopoulos (AEK Athens vs Olympiacos), Giorgian De Arrascaeta (Cruzeiro vs America Mineiro), Riley McGree (Newcastle Jets vs Melbourne City), Lionel Messi (Nigeria vs Argentina), Benjamin Pavard (France vs Argentina), Ricardo Quaresma (Iran vs Portugal), Cristiano Ronaldo (Juventus vs Real Madrid), Mohamed Salah (Liverpool vs Everton).

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Elegance at Rajiv Rupaleria’s one year anniversary

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Isaiah Mwebaze
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Commonwealth Resort Munyonyo was at the centre of elegance as Rajiv Rupaleria the Managing Director Crane Management Services and son to tycoon Sudhir Rupaleria celebrated his one year anniversary with wife Naiya Khagram.

Rajiv and Naiya wedded in London last year.
The cocktail party that kicked off at 6pm at Speke Resort was attended by diplomats, ambassadors, government officials and business executives.


Speaker of Parlaiment, Rebecca Kadaga; Foreign Affairs Minister, Sam Kutesa, former Security Minister, Lt.Gen. Henry Tumukunde, former Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi, Maj. Gen. Jim Muhwezi, Dr Martin Aliker, envoys , prominent, business moguls mostly from Kwaggalana and other dignitaries were all in attendance.

Rajiv met Naiya, a daughter of wealthy British couple Sudheer and Rita Khagram while they were attending university in London. They married at a glamorous event in London last year.

For his part, Sudhir thanked his son for being a man and focusing on taking the Rupaleria group into the next generation.

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Commercial lending rates slightly rise in July-report

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George Mangula
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Finance Minister Matia Kasaija

Commercial banks’ Shilling denominated monthly lending rates slightly edged upwards to 19.2 per cent in July from an average of 17.7 per cent in June 2018, according to the Performance of the month of August Economy Report published by the Ministry of Finance Planning and Economic Development.

Foreign currency denominated lending rates however, declined from a weighted average of 8.4 per cent to 7.6 per cent over the same period.
During the month of August 2018, the Central Bank maintained its policy rate at 9.0 per cent, which has been the status quo since February 2018.

The Central Bank Rate (CBR) has been kept at single digit since October 2017, with the expectation that inflation will remain with in the 5 per cent target both in the medium and long run.
The total value of loans approved in July increased by 8.2 per cent to Shs1, 383.3 million from Shs1, 278.3 million in June 2018.

However, the stock of outstanding private sector credit amounted to UShs13, 379.1 billion in July 2018 down from Shs13, 404.7 billion in June 2018, registering a decline of 0.2 per cent. “This could be explained by higher payback during the month that offset the extensions,” the report says.

According to the report, the pick-up in credit is majorly attributed to the supportive monetary policy stance, as well as eased credit standards resulting from lower risk of default which is reflected by a reduction in the ratio of non-performing loans to total gross loans. This reduces from 5.3 in March 2018 to 4.4 in June 2018.

By Sector, manufacturing received the largest share of credit extended in July 2018, at 28.8 per cent. Other notable recipients of credit were; Trade (18.1 per cent), Transport and Communication (17.7 per cent) and Building, Construction and Real Estate (10.9 per cent).

Government Securities
According to the report, during the month of August 2018, there were three Treasury bill auctions and one bond auction in the primary market. And Shs650.46 billion was raised, of which Shs453.23 billion was from treasury Bills and Shs197.23 billion was from T-bonds.

“Shs571.17 billion was used for the Refinancing of maturing debt whilst Shs79.29 billion went towards financing other activities in the government budget,” says the report.

However, according to the report, treasury bill rates for the month of August 2018 were largely stable following the rejection of some bids in July 2018. The average rates for August 2018 were 10.6 per cent, 12 per cent, 14.1 per cent for the 91, 182 and 364 day tenors respectively compared to 10.5 per cent, 12 per cent, and 14.5 per cent in July 2018. All auctions were oversubscribed with an average bid to cover ratio 6 of 2.5 an improvement from 1.2 recorded the previous month.

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Bobi Wine to Museveni: How do you feel when people are beaten, killed in the hands of security agencies?

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Geoffery Serugo
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Bobi Wine

Kyadondo East Member of Parliament Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine has taken on President Museveni asking him how he feels when people are being battered and killed by security agencies.

The legislator asked during a media briefing held at his home in Magere, in Kasangati Town Council where he said many people have breathed their last after being beaten and roughed up by security agencies.

Bobi Wine has clashed often times with police and army during the processions of opposition leaders.

“I expected the president to call on the errant soldiers to order, however, I was disappointed when President Museveni decided to pat them on the back for a job well done,”
“Mr President, just like there was a time when you were not in power, there will be a time when you will not be in power so treat people the way you would want to be treated, It is not too late to regain and save your legacy so please do what is right, ” he said.

He stressed that as a fountain of honor has always referred to them as his grandsons and daughters, he acts contrary to the norm by subjecting them to torture, arrests.

Grandparents are known to treat their grandchildren with love and care and so grandparents shouldn’t brutalize their grandchildren every time they have a different opinion,” he added.
Bobi Wine who reminded security operatives of brutalizing Ugandans said, they are not fighting against them rather fighting for them too. He encouraged them to join the campaign saying People Power is not about Bobi Wine or anybody. It is an idea premised on the fact that power belongs to the people.

He said as Ugandans, they are going through a tough time, “We must stand together to end the disturbing videos of security operatives brutalizing people they are supposed to protect.”

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New technology firm launches in Uganda

By
George Mangula
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Josh Sandler

Lori Systems, a tech-enabled trucking logistics platform has launched into Uganda, Rwanda and South Sudan after winning multiple bids associated with the newly built US $4 billion railroad system in East Africa, with the joint goal of driving down the costs of goods in the region and unlocking the region’s growth potential.

“We’ve opened new locations in Uganda, South Sudan and Rwanda. Over the past year, we have grown rapidly – both in terms of throughput on the system as well as the team. Our team has grown from 15 to 70 since February and adds experience from organizations such as McKinsey, DHL, and NASA. Lori is focused on hiring the best talent in order to execute on bringing down the costs of goods across the continent,” the CEO Josh Sandler said.
The firm has also partnered Kenya’s Standard Gauge Railway to help reduce the costs involved by truckers in moving bulk imports and exports.

“We’re so excited to announce our working partnership with the Standard Gauge Rail in Kenya. In our continued efforts to bring down the costs of goods, we have been rapidly ramping up our operations to tackle massive transportation issues. We’ve already had success in bringing down direct costs of moving bulk grains, achieving a 17 per cent reduction in Uganda,” said Sandler.
The firm also recently partnered with Kuehne + Nagel, DHL and Cargill to allow them to extract greater insight from their logistics data and drive informed action through improved technology, analytics, and operations.

To further reduce transportation costs and respond to increased demand, Lori has recently brought on top talent from across Africa. Jean-Claude Homawoo, Harvard Business School alum, joins Lori as Chief Product Officer from Google where he was a Product Lead. Prior to that, he was iROKO’s VP of Strategy.

Andrew Musoke, Head of Commercial, is a former Vice President at JP Morgan and Harvard Business School alum from Uganda. Lori also recently brought on Mehul Bhatt to run the East African region as it focuses on pan-Africa expansion. Bhatt is the former CEO of Maersk Tankers India and ran one of biggest clearing and forwarding agencies in East Africa.

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