What began as a chat on whats app six months ago among the Entebbe Golf club management crew namely Innocent Kihika (immediate past Chairman), Oscar Semawere (Vice Chairman), Kiryowa Kiwanuka (member), Maxi Byenkya (vice captain) and Uganda Breweries’ Annette Nakiyanga would lead to the birth of the Singleton Match Play Championship, a tournament that after six rounds of fun-filled and intense action came to an epic grand finale on Saturday at the par 71 Entebbe Golf Course. After playing a total of six rounds, Kenyan pair and perhaps one of the oldest in the tournament comprising of Isaac Mariera…
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A 35 year old Entebbe business woman identified as Sylvia Mirembe was on Saturday morning discovered dead in bed by her boyfriend only identified as Frank. The deceased was discovered dead by her boyfriend in their rented apartment in Lugonjo Zone, Entebbe Municipality in the early morning hours of Saturday after the deceased didn’t wake up in her usual morning hours to recite the holy rosary. According to the boyfriend, the deceased has been waking up early in the morning to recite the rosary and do some house chores but this time he became suspicious after she remained in…
They are Golf’s unsung heroes whose main role is to act as a navigator for a player on the golf course and they are none other than caddies, the men and women who on Monday descended on the Entebbe Golf Course to participate in the 2017 Caddies Golf Match Play Tournament. Entebbe emerged overall winners of the tournament with a total of five points while Kampala only garnered three points. Some of the outstanding Entebbe caddies that whipped their counterparts included; Simon Peter Luyombya and Bright Kato Mukama pair beat Bukenya and Sebunya pair 5&4, Tony Mudungu and Bwire…
The Uganda Peoples Defence Airforce (UPDAF) Army Chief Of Staff Brig. James Birungi has warned junior army officers to desist from acts of indiscipline if they are to succeed in their careers. Brig. Birungi who presided over the piping ceremony of newly promoted UPDAF Soldiers at the UPDAF Headquarters on Tuesday noted that some soldiers and army officers are so ambitious and keep pestering the top Army commanders for promotions and juicy positions. Brig. Birungi appealed to the ambitious soldiers to always work hard and perform their duties wholeheartedly adding that promotions in the army are based on merit…
Former Entebbe Municipality Aspiring Member of Parliament Chris Sebuliba is smiling from the bottom of his heart one of these days after he successfully cracked a juicy deal over the weekend during the first ever Dragon Boat festival that was organized at Entebbe Zoo on Sunday. The West Ham Resort Top Boss left the Dragon Boat Festival bobbing majestically with smiling pockets after several high profiled guests including Vice President Edward Kiwanuka Ssekandi, Minister of State for Tourism Kiwanda Ssubi, Chinese Ambassador to Uganda Zheng Zhuqiang, Uganda’s Ambassador to China Dr. Crispus Kiyonga plus several others filled their tummies…
The Entebbe Nakumatt Branch is having financial troubles and choking on a Shs9.7m debt that was accrued by the bread manufacturing section. The bread manufacturing section which we have positively established as “Mr. Bread” failed to clear the outstanding debt of Shs9.7m that it owed ASA Uganda Limited a supplier. It’s not yet clear what caused failure to pay the debt however on Thursday court bailiff William Mugisha who was accompanied by a lawyer whose names haven’t yet been established stormed Nakumatt Entebbe Branch premises to confiscate the bread manufacturing equipment after Muse Musimbi the Deputy Registrar high court…
The much anticipated first ever Dragon Boat festival in Uganda didn’t live up to it’s perfect billing as organizers failed to match the hype that came with advertising the festival with a superb and excellent event on Sunday at the Lake Side Uganda Wildlife Education Centre (UWEC, also popularly known as Entebbe zoo). Revelers who turned up at the Lake side Entebbe zoo in sizeable numbers shifted their attention to a host of musicians including Eddy Kenzo, Rema Namakula, Phina Masanyalaze, Rockie’s Troupe and several artistes from the Golden Band who spiced up the day after the Dragon Boat…
Prof. Lawrence Mukiibi proprietor of St. Lawrence schools has died this morning at Norvik hospital where he has been admitted for weeks.
The Entebbe Municipality RDC Nalongo Rose Kirabira on Friday fired the Kasanje Health Centre Lab Technician identified as Laban Turyamuhika after it emerged that the medic has not been reporting for work at the health centre for several months. RDC Kirabira who held a Baraza (open forum meeting) at the Kasanje Town Council Headquarters, visited the Kasanje Health Centre and discovered that the Lab technician wasn’t on duty and to make matters worse the acting Health Centre administrators were giving lots of lame excuses for his absence. She instructed the Wakiso Deputy Chief Administration officer (CAO) Masokoyi Wasswa to…
The Minister of Works and Transport, Monica Ntege Azuba, has set tough targets for the new Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) board members, warning that Government will not compromise on integrity and hard work. Speaking at the inauguration of the new board on Thursday morning at Serena Hotel, Azuba said key among the targets, is the need to increase financial aviation revenues, which currently stand at sh199b, by 20%. “I wish to charge you with the following tasks which I hope you will accomplish over your three-year term. Increase the financial revenues from the current sh199 billion by at least…