I very much doubt that I will be getting a plausible explanation from the power distribution firm, Umeme Uganda Ltd, but I will all the same try. After all, we live in a country where service providers imagine that their service is a favour for which we should be eternally grateful even when it is […]
Umeme’s David Birungi speaks to a cross section of business and community leaders during an engagement in Gulu. Gulu, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | Power distributor, Umeme has embarked on stakeholder engagement meetings across the country, starting with Northern Uganda to explain the company’s planned projects aimed at improving power reliability in the communities. The […]
Government is locked in negotiations with Umeme over whether or not to renew the contract of the electricity distribution company, the Minister of Energy and Mineral Development, Ms Mary Goretti Kitutu, has revealed. The minister told Parliament that the negotiations over the extension of the contract are being handled by President Museveni and the company’s […]
Peter Kaujju, Head of communications at Umeme says they have also reduced the number of days it takes to have a customer connected, from the target of up to 15 days to four working days. Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The demand for electricity connections has drastically fallen since the government suspended the free […]
Image credit: Luca Alarico Sperotti © 123RF.com PARTNER SHOWCASE Uganda’s main electricity distribution company Umeme, like so many others across the continent, has faced numerous challenges over the years. Not least in the last decade and a half in its current guise under a concession management arrangement for the distribution network following the electricity sector […]
The number of households opting for customer-funded connections to the national power grid is now at 5,283. Power distributor Umeme says it received these applications between December and January. The government of Uganda had earlier in December implored eligible applicants that can afford to pay for connections to do so. Peter Kaujju, Head of communications […]
KEY POINTS The top mover of the day was Safaricom Plc after selling 10.61 million shares followed by Co-operative Bank who sold 2.77 million shares. Equity Group, KCB Group, and KenGen sold 1.36 and 1.21 million. Kenya Power and Lighting Company emerged as the top gainer of the day at the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) […]
KEY POINTS Safaricom is still leading the table of top mover selling 10.44 million shares today followed by Equity Group and KCB Group with 5.80 and 3.50 million shares respectively. Olympia Capital was the top gainer of the day on February 2, 2021, at the NSE with 9.09 percent at the price of 2.40 shillings […]
Relatives of the Kasese road accident victims gathered at Kasese Municipal health centre mortuary on February 3, 2021. PHOTO | NMG At least 32 people have been confirmed dead and five others seriously injured after a grisly accident involving five vehicles along Fort Portal-Kasese highway in the western Ugandan district of Kasese on Tuesday night. […]
An employee of Umeme carries out a pole connection for a customer recently (PHOTO/Courtesy). KAMPALA – The number of households opting for customer-funded connections to the national power grid is now at 5,283. Power distributor Umeme says it received these applications between December and January. The government had earlier in December implored eligible applicants that […]
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