Overview Attachment File: How Hackers are utilizing COVID-19 COVID 19 is disrupting the world in ways nobody ever predicted. Currently, all major events in all top destinations are being canceled. There are doubts over the Tokyo Olympics. Football league games have been postponed. All major industries are experiencing challenges – aviation, entertainment, education, and most critical the city life of big traffic- have been impacted. Economies that rely on tourism and aviation are feeling the pitch. Major tourism destinations are looking like ghost cities with hotels reporting just 10% occupancy, for the lucky ones. At one of the top hotels…
Corona Virus: A shaken world
KAMPALA 10th March 2020: reports indicate that more than 4,031 people have died of COVID-19 world-wide and over 110,000 infected with the virus as of today 10th March. China, where the virus was first reported in the Wuhan district, has recorded the most causalities followed by South Korea and Italy, which has now declared a lockdown in form of travel restrictions across the country. The virus is spreading faster across the world, see Map. Two cases have been reported in Africa, and no confirmed death yet. “In Africa, most people’s immune system is always ‘exercising’ as it fights air pollution,…
The avoidable crisis
The age limit tinkering threatens to throw our country into a crisis. We can avoid it. Ugandans know the costs of war better than anyone. We invested lots of our money in drafting our Constitution. It is one of the major achievements of the NRM government. It is the basis for our democracy and governance. It should be revered. Standing the test of time is a sign of a great Constitution. Doing the right thing does not call for deployment of our security agencies, whatsoever. It just makes all of us anxious and threatens our confidence in the motives of…
Uganda’s 27 Tn Budget:Financing debt amid poverty
The Ministry of Finance, Economic Planning and Development writes the budget, not the president. However, it is prepared in consultation with the President to align State House priorities so that they are well funded. And the National budget for the FY2017/18 has been passed and it is with us now. One thing is still unclear though. How does Uganda intend to raise revenue to domestically finance her Ugx. 29trillion budget? A country’s national budget is a very important milestone in the year. It is aimed at providing a blueprint for progress towards projected goals, including economic growth and the alleviation…
Who was Chris Musando or Chris Msando or CHRISTOPHER CHEGE MSANDO?
You must be too sophisticated and security conscious to escape Google, Facebook and LinkedIn. Yet that is what the late Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission, the (IEBC) ICT top honcho, Chris Msando, almost achieved.There are limited records of his career and education background on major social networks and search engines. However, the news of the death of Chris Msando or Chris Musando have dominated the media – TV, social networks and print. The late has been described as one of the most highly educated IT experts at IEBC who was instrumental in the setup and management of the electronic election management system…
Who doesn’t need the ‘big four’ audit firm experience?
There are few professions that are life changing like working in ‘big four’ audit firm. The cross industry experience. Daily late night working hours. The urgent proposal adrenaline. Over demanding clients. Very competitive team of peers. Endless assignments. Very ‘lazy’ clients. The end of month time sheets and work plans. The overzealous supervisors. And many more make it a worthy experience. You have to stay on top of your game to keep the job. The big four audit firms in our country (Uganda) recruit on merit based on two key criterions– (i) the folks who will do the jobs. And…
