Norah Owaraga

Plagiarism in Uganda academic institutions and corruption on the job market

“The copy-paste culture needs to be eradicated, and academia needs to be proactive and relentless. Change starts from these “ivory towers” of knowledge,” writes Timothy Laku.

Online Banking Not Caught On In Uganda

When we explained to them that those very cards that they use for making ATM withdrawals, they could use to do an online transaction, they simply did not want to do so for various reasons.

Tribute to My Grandson

“Wake up Jeremy, wake up. Wake up Jerry and take your breast milk. Wake up Jeremy, wake up”, called out his mother, Rita, on Tuesday, 20th November 2018, Universal Children’s Day 2018, as Jeremy lay peaceful, quiet and unresponsive in his tinny little coffin, hours before his remains were lowered down his final resting place…

Trending in Uganda: Agent Banking

“There is this new thing in Africa that I don’t understand. It’s called Agent Banking. A store/shop acts as an agent to a bank, or several banks. The same store is also an agent to a telco’s mobile money business. The agents are in remote places where banks don’t want/can’t afford to set up branches.…