Author: Johnson Thembo
Last night fans of live music braved the chilly weather to watch David Lutalo perform on Unplugged Sn 2 finale, and they were not disappointed for even one minute. The “Woololo” star stepped on stage and immediately set the crowd cheering and dancing to his hits like “Akabina Kapapala,” “Gunsitula” among others. The turn up for Unplugged Sn 2 finale, which stretched into the wee hours of Thursday morning, was another validation of the popularity of Unplugged Sn 2 and David Lutalo as an artist. The turn up was so huge that even moving the stage to the parking lot did not…
Embattled Arsene Wenger has said that its much more than a dream for people to begin thinking that he will resign from the job he has held for about 20 decades. Wenger adds that those making a lot of noise would rather concentrate on their jobs and leave him alone. He however admitted Arsenal’s hopes of a top-four Premier League finish were over after the 2-1 defeat at Brighton. The club lag 13 points behind fourth‑placed Tottenham Hotspur and the Europa League appears to have become their only shot at Champions League qualification. They play Milan in the last 16. Wenger heard…
President Yoweri Museveni has had asked the Inspector General of Police Gen. Kale Kayihura and security Minister Gen. Henry Tumukunde and replaced them with Mr. Okoth Ochola and General Elly Tumwiine respectively. Brigadier Sabiiti Muzeei is Deputy Inspector General of Police. A statement signed by the President and dated 4th March, 2018, reads as follows: In the Exercise of the powers vested in the President by Articles 113 (1) and 213 (2) of the Constitution of the Republic of Uganda, I hereby appoint General Elly Tumwiine as Minister for Security, Mr. Okoth Ochola as the Inspector-General of Police and…
The DStv Kampala Kids Run stakeholders have selected Namusita Primary School, Ekanba Primary School and Kakoge Primary School in Buyende District, Eastern Uganda as beneficiaries of clean water systems to improve sanitation. This is in line with the run’s main objective to provide safe clean water in primary schools. About UGX 20 million was collected from the run which attracted over 4,000 children between 4 -14 years from over 20 schools in Kampala and Entebbe Districts. Free tickets were given to UPE schools to support their participation in the run. During the handover ceremony held at Kakoge Primary school, Phoebe…
Hon. Lady Justice Prof. Lillian Tibatemwa Ekirikubinza, a Justice of the Supreme Court of Uganda was elected to the International Commission of Jurists for a five-year term. This follows an International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) ballot conducted in December 2017 and January 2018. Hon. Lady Justice Prof. Lillian Tibatemwa-Ekirikubinza was elected together with seven other re-known Judges from across the globe; the other African jurist to join at the same time with Hon. Lady Justice Prof. Tibatemwa is the highly regarded Hon. Justice Dr.Willy Mutunga, former Chief Justice of Kenya. Hon. Lady Justice Prof. Ekirikubinza joins two other women from Africa, Hon. Lady Justice Qinisile Mabuza from Swaziland…
Dear fellow mourners, thank you for standing with us in this trying moment. Rest in peace my lovely sister Susan, smile and laugh at the villains who have brutally killed you. For you are at peace, much as you leave us in pain, your callous killers will be haunted all the days of their lives. I laugh at them with you, for it couldn’t have been you my humble, loving, smiling apple, lovely sister. You never quarrelled with anyone. You talked with everyone, you went about everything with gentle calm that made me admire you my sister. When things were…
The ministry of education has threatened to close all the unlicensed primary teaching colleges. According to the state minister of primary education Hon. Rosemary Sseninde revealed this saying the ministry has established that most privates are operating illegally and yet they are producing half-baked teachers. She says that the ministry has sent a team of officials from the ministry to establish those illegal institutes that are just after money for closure. The call follows the poor performance of students who sat for their 2017 grade 111 teacher’s certificate examination whose results were released on Friday 234r/ February with over 5000…
The ministry of Education and sports through Kyambogo University has released the highly anticipated 2017 Grade III Primary Teachers’ Results. The results that came four months earlier than past years, were released by the Kyambogo University Vice Chancellor Elly Katunguka who revealed how the performance had declined compared to that of last year. A Total number of 15900 sat for the exams and only a 9800 managed to excel with the remaining number amounting to about 30% failing. Katunguka noted that students mainly failed Mathematics yet it is a compulsory subject that ended up affecting their general grading. Bushenyi PTC…
A-squad of 40 local football players in Teso Province has been summoned for the residential training ahead of the first edition of The FUFA Drum provinces league. The sixteen Province tournament has been earmarked to kick off on Saturday 24th February 2018 with a derby game between Busoga and Bugisu at the at Bugembe Municipal stadium in Jinja. Teso will will play their first fixture against Sebei Province on Sunday at Kongunga Primary school playground in Bukedea. The locally based players and the National players are currently camped at Wash and Wills Hotel in Mbale under the headship of CAF A Licenced coach Frank ‘Video’ Anyau. Anyau who talked to www.fufa.co.ug says…
Minister David Bahati has decried the manner in which Uganda Blood Transfusion Services (UBTS) reacted towards the Valentine’s day blood donation campaign. Speaking during today’s plenary Bahati who was acting as the government chief whip said that the decision is highly regrettable. He described UBTS as an independent organization that was supposed to act with an independent mind rather than a shaming government. It should be noted that comment follows the decision by the UBTS to refuse taking blood from the opposition’s Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) officials at the time when the blood bank is empty.