Sunday afternoon was a cheerily colourful extravaganza as scores of party animals, music and picnic lovers alike around Kampala city joined in on the Blankets at Home online edition. The virtual online concert was fueled with afro-beats “enjoyments” and had many glued to their gadgets and TV screens as they watched performances coming in from Uganda’s finest like Vinka, Kenneth Mugabi and Buka Chimey. The main man of the show Joeboy, did not disappoint despite the fact that he was miles away. He serenaded his Ugandan fans effortlessly with his hit songs like Nobody, Love, All for you and…
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The Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) has made some clarifications on the alleged discrepancies in the academic papers of Presidential hopeful Robert Kyagulanyi (Bobi Wine). The exams body was reached out by city lawyer Hassan Male Mabirizi how sought clarification on the papers presented by Kyagulanyi before he contested for the Kyadondo East Parliamentary seat and recently to the Electoral Commission. Among others, the lawyer wanted to know why Bobi Wine claimed to have sat the S.6 (UACE) exams in November 1998 when back then the exams were done in March. In response to the lawyer, Daniel Odongo the UNEB…
Face masks are here to stay, and tech companies are keen to take advantage by offering us breathing protection well beyond what disposable face masks can achieve. LG just revealed its first serious attempt at providing us with “personal clean air.” Using IFA 2020 as a launching ground, LG is introducing the PuriCare Wearable Air Purifier. It’s a face mask, but promises to provide a fresh supply of clean air to the person wearing it for hours. That’s achieved through a combination fo two H13 HEPA filters and dual fans, powered by a rechargeable battery. LG built-in its patented Respiratory…
The Uganda People’s Defense Forces (UPDF) has come out to distance itself from comments made by former presidential candidate Col Dr Kizza Besigye, who on Friday predicted a military led overthrow of the current National Resistance Movement Government under President Yoweri Museveni. Besigye, citing other countries where armies have mutinied or joined masses to overthrow their leaders — the latest being Mali two weeks ago, — said such was the likely end of President Museveni’s reign. He based his prediction on the current welfare and living conditions of the armed forces, which he said are much worse than most Ugandans.…
FDC’s Col Dr Kizza Besigye has dismissed the recent National Resistance Movement (NRM) landslide victory in the national special interest group elections, saying that such wins are a characteristic of a regime nearing its end. Besigye said the ruling party could have even performed better if they wanted to, given the resources at their disposal. The NRM in the just concluded polls managed a massive 86.93% in the election for the elderly committees; 84.84% in the disabled committees while in the village youth committees, the ruling party amassed 79% of the vote. Yesterday, President Yoweri Museveni took a swipe at…
Bishop Arnold Muwonge who is also the CEO NDE network has today addressed Ugandan youths and policy makers about “positioning urban youth for socio-economic transformation”. Bishop who through zoom was talking from state House was the key note speaker of the very vital topic for Ugandan youth if we are to evidence youth economic growth, a sector that far lags behind with 75% of the youths unemployed. The conference that also attracted the first lady, Janet Museveni was attended by hundreds of stake holders in the topic across the country. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started”, Bishop Arnold…
Re- known city events promoters Andrew Mukasa commonly known as Bajjo and Abby Musinguzi aka Abtex have issued an ultimatum of only one week for President Museveni to allow them get back to their usual business. Speaking before journalists in a press conference yesterday, Abtex and Bajjo revealed that after one week and the president hasn’t hid to their request, they will organise country wide processions and in Kampala in particular, they will organise the youth and move to downtown and consult them on how to work while observing the SOPs of Covid 19. Through the umbrella of Uganda events…
The 97Fund, a Ugandan based Open-end Investment Vehicle (HoldCo) that invests in high growth early stage companies in Africa and managed by Ortus Africa Capital, has launched a $1 Million COVID-19 Relief Fund (the “Fund”) The Relief Fund targets companies responding to the pandemic in the business model sectors of healthcare, tourism, education, finance, New Ways of working (NWoW); supply chains and logistics and the digital economy providing market places to businesses. While commenting on the new development for The Fund, Kenneth Legesi, Manager of the 97Fund noted that COVID – 19 had disrupted Uganda’s social and economic landscape as…
Airtel Uganda, together with its technology partners Comviva, has won the 2020 Digital Wallet Innovation Award under the ‘Market Adoption’ category. Airtel Uganda and Comviva also won the Grand Prize at the awards ceremony organized by Aite Group, a global research and advisory firm, during the virtual Mobile Payment Conference held on Monday. Aite Group annually recognizes innovation by digital wallet providers that are changing the way commerce is done. The winners are selected by a global panel of independent experts on digital payments and wallets. Digital wallets are becoming the engines of commerce, and with the COVID – 19…
Stanbic Bank Uganda has revealed that its employee at William Street Branch has tested positive for COVID-19 and is currently undergoing treatment. Stanbic now joins several corporate institutions in Uganda which have since reported cases of COVID-19 at their premises. The bank said in a statement on Tuesday evening that, “All exposed colleagues in the branch are undergoing tests and have been self-quarantined for 14 days.” “While contact tracing and testing is underway, Stanbic William Street Branch has been temporarily closed to avoid any possible further spread of infection and will be reopened once we have performed enhanced cleaning and…