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This year’s Junior Championship will be hosted at Kings College Buddo on 24th June 2017 starting at 9am. Over 432 participants from primary and secondary schools that qualified from various regions will be tussling it out for the national awards. The Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Uganda has once again come on board to support this annual event with a sponsorship Worth UGX 10 Million. It is the 8th consecutive year running whereby ICPAU has been a sponsor to this championship. Performance in the Primary Category Last year’s event was won by Green Acres Junior School, in boys and…
Uganda will be hosting the 5th edition of the Uganda International Wood ball Open Championship from 30 June – 2 July 2017 at Kisubi Beach. This will be a special edition attended by the International Wood ball Federation President, Mr. Ming-Hui Weng. The same event will be officially opened by the Chinese Ambassador HE Zheng Zhu Qiang on 30 June 2017. President Weng is the founder Wood ball sport that originates from Chinese Taipei. The Chinese Embassy is the top sponsor of this event with a sponsorship worth USD 11,000 as support towards Awards, officiation and T-Shirts for all participants.…
Saudi Arabia’s King Salman has appointed his son, Mohammed bin Salman, as heir, in a major reshuffle announced early on Wednesday. A royal decree removed Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, a 57-year-old nephew of the king, as next-in-line to the throne and replaced him with Mohammed bin Salman, 31, who was previously the deputy crown prince. According to the official Saudi Press Agency, the newly-announced crown prince was also named deputy prime minister and maintained his post as defence minister. The former crown prince was also fired from his post as interior minister, the decree said. The series of decrees also amended Article…
Besides the Bobi wine AKA Robert Kyagulanyi Sentamu, Kyadondo east By-election possible odds of being the favorite to win despite contesting as an independent, FDC’s Apollo kantinti and NRM’s Sebalu Sitenda still hold unresolved issues and this was expressed in a live broadcast on NBS morning breeze where both candidates were involved in the talk show. Tuhaise: How are you ensuring that the rules of electoral commission are observed? Sitenda: We shall be at the voting station as early as 7am. Hon. Kantinti: We are keeping a close eye on the entire electoral process. What happened is not going to…
Police in central India have arrested 15 Muslim men and charged them with sedition – punishable by life in prison – for celebrating Pakistan’s victory over India in the Champions Trophy cricket final. The men, aged 19 to 35, were arrested in central Madhya Pradesh state’s Burhanpur district after locals complained that they shouted pro-Pakistan slogans and lit firecrackers after the match ended on Sunday night. “We received a complaint from a local Hindu man who accused them of celebrating after India lost the match,” Burhanpur police chief Raja Ram Parihar told the AFP news agency. The accused have also…
Former presidential adviser Tamale Mirundi has openly revealed what his future will be if President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni happens to leave power soon. Speaking during a radio Morning talk show on Beat FM, Tamale highlighted that the current government is being controlled by greedy officials who are also opportunists. Tamale added that he is only in government because of the President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni not any other person. “I would have been killed, this government is full of Mafia’s who don’t wish to see anyone coming closer to the president. And now I want to tell you if Museveni leaves…
Case of the police Constable Benon Matsiko one who knocked down Besigye supporter has been acquitted. The clearance of the case of Benon Matsiko vs IGP Kale Kayihura for a crime committed in July 2016 was due to the failure of D/SSP Katherine Kusemererwa to produce evidence that implicates that the Benon was the driver of the said car which was spotted in the crime. Before the Judgment Benon always maintained in his defense submissions that he was not in the car by the time of the crime, saying that I was attached to Kira police station by that time…
NBS Television famous After Five programme presenter Katamba Eddie Commonly known as MC Kats was last night reported and arrested by police over Child Negligence. Kats was taken in the wee hours of Wednesday when he was intercepted on his way from his daily endless night gigs. According to our well-placed Insider, also reveals that early in the morning, the barefooted Kats was being squeezed endless questions buy officers at Kiwatule Police station as the embattled girlfriend Fille Mutoni dressed in Brown clothes with a veil on her head and black sun glasses looked on. Its also said that MC…
The government does not have technological capacity to detect or prevent online sexual exploitation of children. Head of the counter human trafficking department and coordinator of the Sexual exploitation of children on line Moses Binoga says they are working on developing capacity to technologically detect these cases. He now says currently they are depending on members of the public who report such cases, making appeals to members of the public to support these efforts by reporting any kind of sexual exploitation of the children online. He however says through the working group set up to work on the issue, they…
The Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga has tasked government to update the country about the progress made in the registration of citizens for the National Identity Cards. Speaking last evening at the commencement of Parliament’s second session, Rt Hon Kadaga said many national IDs are lying idle at collection points because citizens are not aware of the guidelines to be followed in picking them. In May this year, President Yoweri Museveni announced that the deadline for simcard registration had been pushed to August, following pressure from parliament and other civil society actors. A national Identity Card is a requirement for…