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The seventh live eviction show saw Prince and Kiddwaya get evicted from the BBNaija Lockdown house. During the week, TrikyTee won the Head of House Challenge, and chose Laycon as his Deputy. This automatically saved them both from being up for eviction. After the Head of House games on Monday, each housemate got to nominate two other housemates for possible eviction. At the end of the nomination process, Ozo, Dorathy, Kiddwaya and Prince had the highest nominations and were immediately put up for possible eviction. In a brief interview with Ebuka, Prince mentioned that he had a feeling he was…
DStv customers, get ready for some thrilling entertainment as Televisa Networks and Multichoice Group team up to announce the launch of a new channel tlnovelas. The DStv channel will be available from Monday, 14 September till August 2021 on DStv Channel 133. tlnovelas is an exclusive channel with a host of the most successful telenovelas within the Televisa Group of over 800 titles. The channel aims to delight customers with stories that will captivate them through compelling plots that will certainly drive unique emotional connections with viewers. From young adults, women, men and even children, there is a story for everyone…
As part of activities to mark the Omukama of Tooro’s 25th coronation anniversary, MTN Uganda has entered a partnership worth Seven Hundred Million Uganda Shillings, with the kingdom of Tooro Kingdom. The support will be extended over a period of 2 years and will focus on the kingdom’s social, cultural, and economic programs in the areas of health, sports, and culture. Programs to be supported include the popular Masaza football tournaments and the newly introduced inter-counties bicycle competitions. The kingdom will also identify projects of their interest and work with MTN to scope and address the agreed needs of those…
Tanzania and Uganda have signed an agreement allowing for the construction of a 1,445 km (898 miles) crude oil pipeline. The $3.5bn (UShs12.9 trillion) project will connect Uganda’s oil fields to Tanzania’s port of Tanga. The signing ceremony was attended by the presidents of both countries. Oil reserves were found in Uganda in 2006 but production has been delayed partly by a lack of infrastructure including an export pipeline. A start date for construction has not yet been announced for what is set to become East Africa’s first major oil pipeline. But there are warnings the project could come at…
As Uganda and the world struggle to navigate the “new normal” brought about by covid -19 pandemic, wearing masks remains one of the most effective preventative measures to slow the spread of the virus However, many people remain reluctant to wear them, wear them incorrectly, or still feel it is not important. MTN is therefore adding its voice to the global drive to raise awareness about the importance of wearing masks in the fight against Coronavirus through a campaign dubbed #WearItForMe across its 21 African and Middle Eastern markets. To help drive this much-needed change in behaviour, MTN has committed…
BY INNOCENT KIIZ, KASESE Geoffrey Chan Masereka who participated in the NRM’s party primary elections for the District Chairmanship has spotted that there was malpractices in recent party primaries elections. Masereka pulled 27,653 votes equivalent to 18.7 percent and in the third position is Mubingwa Zepher who also scored 3283 votes which is equivalent to 2.2 percent, said that some big wigs in NRM manipulated the yellow book registers for their personnel interests. “I discovered that some places which has registered 109 electorates, the declaration forms could show that 8000 people have voted against real registered electorates in yellow book” …
The first of its kind Women in FinTech Hackathon is currently underway in Kampala with 15 women led and dominated teams taking part. The participants are conceptualizing and developing different financial inclusion products with special focus on women in areas such as payments, lending, saving, e-commerce, e-education and e-agriculture among others. As part of the project, all teams are interacting with a pool of facilitators, mentors and assessors pulled together from all over the world but mainly accessible remotely via ID8, Slack and other virtual platforms. Organized by HiPipo under its Include EveryOne program in partnership with Crosslake Tech,…
BY INNOCENT KIIZA The Kasese District Woman MP Winnie Kiiza has continued offering total allegeience to the opposition Alliance for National Transformation (ANT), a party she joined a month ago. The party district offices on Rukidi Street in Kasese town, Kiiza described ANT as a value based party and with orderly leadership focused on serving the interests of Ugandans. She said her former party FDC has for long diverted from its original cause of democratic change and has been sacked into politics of intrigue and self-centered. Yokasi Bihandi the founder member of Alliance for National Transformation urged Kasese people to…
News reaching our desk indicates that Four storied building has collapsed in Kabalagala, Makindye division in Kampala city. The incident happened on Friday evening hours after a heavy downpour that paralyzed business in the city center and the nearby slums. The building is located near Calendar guest however and by press time, police together with locals were working so hard to excavate people that trapped in the wreckage. This becomes the second building to collapse in the Makindye division, within a space of only three months. The previous incident happened in Kansanga and over 10 people lost their lives. We…
Viewers on DStv can look forward to seeing one of Africa’s top footballers, Moroccan attacking midfielder Hakim Ziyech, make his Premier League debut on Monday 14 September 2020 when Chelsea take on Brighton & Hove Albion in a Round 1 clash. SuperSport is your #HomeOfFootball and the ultimate destination for lovers of ‘The Beautiful Game’. After years starring in the Eredivisie for Heerenveen, FC Twente and Ajax, the 27-year-old Dutch-born player will grace one of Europe’s major leagues, following a €40million transfer to the Blues which was confirmed way back in February. It’s been a long wait for Chelsea fans…