Nyombi Thembo Archives – CEO East Africa

Irene Kaggwa: The ‘precious stone’ that UCC rejected joins International Telecommunication Union in Switzerland

by Paul MurungiThe Big StoryJanuary 6, 2025January 6, 2025

Former Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) Acting Executive Director, Eng. Irene Kaggwa’s exit from government is relatable to Jesus’ biblical expression of “a stone which builders rejected [eventually] became the cornerstone.”…

BREAKING NEWS: Eng. Irene Kaggwa resigns from Uganda Communications Commission after 26 years of service

by Paul MurungiIndustry & Analysis News & Analysis The Big StoryJune 28, 2024June 29, 2024

Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) Telecom and Electrical Engineer, Irene Kaggwa-Sewankambo has resigned from her role of Director Engineering and Communications Infrastructure, according to a leaked internal email sent to UCC staff, and authored by Joyce Kasirye, UCC Director of Human Resource and Administration. Until her resignation, Kaggwa was largely known in the public arena for her role as the former…

Facebook sanctions and high device costs stare at Nyombi as he takes the reigns as Uganda’s communications industry regulator

by The CEO Magazine TeamGovernment Agencies News & AnalysisDecember 2, 2023December 2, 2023

Nyombi Thembo, a shrewd politician and an economist is no stranger to the corporate corridors at Uganda Communications Commission headquarters in Bugolobi, an affluent Kampala suburb. Before his appointment as…

From a poor village boy who shared a grass-thatched house with goats, to a minister and now UCC Executive Director⏤Hon. Nyombi Thembo’s story

by Muhereza KyamuteteraGovernment Agencies Profiles The Big StoryDecember 2, 2023January 15, 2024

George William Nyombi Thembo was born in 1964, just two years after Uganda’s independence to the late Erisa Somongu- a political activist and a Kabaka Yekka die-hard, Eseza Nanyonga Ziribasanga…