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@sqoop Mon, 14 Oct 2024 11:37:22
UK-based Ugandan lawyer loses Shs400m to Facebook lover
A chance meeting online nine years ago that led to bonding, trust and love-induced investment plans back home has ended up in court. But the Ugandan “immigration lawyer” based in the United Kingdom (UK) has now failed to recover more than Shs400m invested in the long-distance liaison with benefits. Mr Peter Ziruntusa, alias Peter Campbell, […] The post UK-based Ugandan lawyer loses Shs400m to Facebook lover first appeared on Sqoop - Get Uganda entertainment news, celebrity gossip, videos and photos.
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@sqoop Mon, 14 Oct 2024 10:04:21
‘62 since ‘62: Selling Uganda to Africans in diaspora
The goal of the initiative is to, among other things, position Uganda as a preferred destination for the African diaspora, while promoting the country’s tourism. “We have tried the food; I had luwombo for the very first time. I wish I could eat that everyday. The women described how the food is prepared. It […] The post ‘62 since ‘62: Selling Uganda to Africans in diaspora first appeared on Sqoop - Get Uganda entertainment news, celebrity gossip, videos and photos.
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@matookerepublic Mon, 14 Oct 2024 09:26:30
Prisons Service explains why it introduced camouflage attire and which officers are supposed to wear the new uniform
Uganda Prisons Service has clarified that their new camouflage attire will not replace their conventional outfit, stating it is strictly for their staff under the Safety and Security Unit. The camouflage attire was first showcased during the 62nd Independence celebration in Busia last week. Many on social media criticised the design, linking it to the […] The post Prisons Service explains why it introduced camouflage attire and which officers are supposed to wear the new uniform first appeared on Matooke Republic.
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@kfm Mon, 14 Oct 2024 04:30:07
FIFA to open dialogue on transfer rules after EU verdict
BY REUTERS FIFA will start negotiations with the sport’s stakeholders on the transfer system after the European Union ruled that some of its aspects were unlawful, the soccer governing body said on Monday. “In the coming days, FIFA will formally invite stakeholders to comment on and propose ideas in relation to article 17 of the RSTP (“Consequences of terminating a contract without just cause”) with a view to consolidating the proposals and identifying the best way forward,” FIFA said in a statement. FIFA’s Regulations on the Status and Transfer of Players (RSTP) say a player who terminates a contract before its term “without just cause” is liable to pay compensation to the club, and where the player joins a new […] The post FIFA to open dialogue on transfer rules after EU verdict first appeared on 93.3 KFM.
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@matookerepublic Mon, 14 Oct 2024 08:25:18
Burkina Faso becomes first team to qualify for the 2025 AFCON finals; Other teams on verge of qualification this week, including Uganda Cranes
Burkina Faso became the first team to qualify for the 2025 African Cup of Nations finals, joining hosts Morocco in the 24-team tournament following a 2-0 win in Burundi on Sunday. But who are the other teams on the verge of qualification this week? Uganda Cranes and South Africa, both in Group K and tied […] The post Burkina Faso becomes first team to qualify for the 2025 AFCON finals; Other teams on verge of qualification this week, including Uganda Cranes first appeared on Matooke Republic.
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@sqoop Mon, 14 Oct 2024 07:56:12
Bridging gap between music and business
One of the things that do not get much attention but affect the Ugandan music industry is limited research by the different stakeholders. Many things are done through guesswork that sometimes works out and most of the time fails. It is on this background that Abaasa Rwemereza, a lecturer in business creative entrepreneurship at Artfield […] The post Bridging gap between music and business first appeared on Sqoop - Get Uganda entertainment news, celebrity gossip, videos and photos.
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@allafrica Mon, 14 Oct 2024 07:11:33
Hoima Diocese Priests Involved in Road Accident, Hospitalised in Kampala
[Nile Post] Rev Fr Businge John of Murro Catholic Parish and Rev Fr Peter Mukisa of Kibedi Parishvehicle were travelling to Hoima in the car registration number UBJ 668 R.
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@sqoop Mon, 14 Oct 2024 07:18:53
BlackRoots Band light up Serena
The BlackRoots Academy of Soul Band brought Kampala Serena Hotel down during Stanbic Bank’s private client’s fine dining experience on Thursday night, captivating an audience of esteemed clients and guests with their electrifying performance. Dressed in stylish outfits that echoed the soul and funk eras, the band delivered a powerful mix of classic hits and […] The post BlackRoots Band light up Serena first appeared on Sqoop - Get Uganda entertainment news, celebrity gossip, videos and photos.
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@matookerepublic Mon, 14 Oct 2024 03:24:00
Thousands win in Celebrate Ug With A UG during UBL patriotic promo
This year’s Independence Day came with a mega celebration for lovers of Uganda Waragi in the form of Uganda Breweries’ giveaway dubbed “Celebrate Ug with A UG”. As part of Uganda Breweries’ ongoing Laga Swagga program promotion, consumers were given a special treat where every code entered from under the cap on 9th October earned […] The post Thousands win in Celebrate Ug With A UG during UBL patriotic promo first appeared on Matooke Republic.
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@matookerepublic Mon, 14 Oct 2024 05:52:31
Dismissed KCCA officials summoned by CID over Kiteezi landfill collapse
The Police Criminal Investigations Department (CID) has summoned three dismissed Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) top officials: former Executive Director Dorothy Kisaka, her deputy David Luyimbazi, and former Director of Public Health Daniel Okello. The trio is expected to appear before the CID headquarters in Kibuli today to face questioning related to the Kiteezi landfill […] The post Dismissed KCCA officials summoned by CID over Kiteezi landfill collapse first appeared on Matooke Republic.
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@observer Mon, 14 Oct 2024 04:52:09
Lightning strikes one dead, injures 12-year-old girl in Hoima
A lightning strike in Hoima has claimed the life of a 35-year-old man and left a 12-year-old girl critically injured. The deceased has been identified as Ari Wanichan, while the injured girl, only identified as Monday, is currently receiving treatment at Hoima Regional Referral hospital. The incident occurred on Saturday afternoon during a heavy downpour in Ndaragi village, Ndaragi Parish, Kisukuma sub-county. According to Geoffrey Omirambe, a neighbour, the two were sheltering inside their home when the lightning struck. Omirambe reported that upon hearing their screams for help, residents rushed to the scene and found Wanichan dead. The community quickly mobilized to transport Monday to the hospital for urgent medical care. This is not the first time lightning has caused fatalities in the region. In September 2007, a lightning strike killed seven pupils and critically injured seventeen others at Bujogo Primary School in Bugambe sub-county, Kikuube district. Similarly, in September 2017, lightning injured 16 pupils at Kifumura Primary School in Buhanika sub-county. A month later, in October 2017, lightning struck St. Prisca Primary School in Hoima, killing four pupils. {loadposition inarticle}
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@observer Mon, 14 Oct 2024 05:22:45
How Semakula Mulumba catalyzed Uganda’s independence struggle
The origin of the struggle for Uganda’s independence from the British colonial rule is in the 1930s but picked momentum in the 1940s when Ugandans staged various demonstrations against the colonial rule largely objecting to economic exploitation. The spark was when the agitators objected to the manipulative pricings of their cash crops that did not give the deserved benefits. Such bold and courageous faceup against the colonial rule later metamorphosed into political agitation, leading to the formation of various political parties, all agitating for self-rule. As a result, Uganda’s first political party, the Uganda National Congress (UNC), was founded in 1952. The party that was largely for farmers was founded by Ignatius Kangave Musaazi, Abubakar Kakyama Mayanja, Stefano Abwangoto (Bugisu), Ben Okwerede (Teso), Yekosofati Engur (Lango), and S.B. Katembo (Tooro). Musaazi was the founding president general, and Mayanja was the founding secretary general. The others were chairpersons in their respective regions. The party was first based at the Kabaka’s Lake, Mengo, in the house of a one Kitamirike. His place was the headquarters of the party for several years before it moved to Katwe and later to Kololo in the late 1950s. However, among the heroes of our agitation for independence is a one Semakula Mulumba. Mulumba is unfortunately less talked about largely because his fellow tribesmen, the Baganda, didn’t warm up for him since he chose to be a republican and criticized the exploitative Buganda monarchs who he felt were in bed with the exploitative colonialists. SEMAKULA MULUMBA’S STRUGGLES Semakula Mulumba’s struggle for Uganda’s independence dates back in the 1940s when he repeatedly clashed with the colonial Protectorate Government officials in Entebbe and British government officials in London. He did not spare Kabaka Edward Muteesa II, whom he accused of conspiring with the colonial masters to suppress the indigenous communities. His message became very popular with the masses, but he became the most unwanted figure both by the colonialists and Kabaka’s government at Mengo. In a telegram to Muteesa on February, 21, 1949 he wrote: “The African people of Uganda should know that the powers conferred on either the Kabaka or the governor, have certain limits. Neither the Kabaka nor the governor has any power to enslave any section of the Uganda community. The people ought to know and safeguard their rights as citizens. They certainly have the right to speak their mother tongue just as pleased. Therefore, anyone - Kabaka, governor, bishop, priest, teacher, chief, peasant, etc who provoke the Africans by interfering in their conversations, or greetings of: Jambo, bu, etc, does so at his own risk. The Africans should take a stick and give him a good beating. That is the only way to put a stop to all that nonsense of harassing people for saying ‘BU’.” ‘BU’ was the greeting slogan of Semakula Mulumba’s party which was fully known as “Bataka BU”. Party members would greet each other by simple shouting the last phrase “BU”. ‘Bu’ was the kiganda rallying call for peasant action against oppression. Both the colonial government and the Mengo establishment of Kabaka Muteesa passed legislations outlawing the “BU” greeting. Semakula Mulumba, who at the time was in London, moved from office to office and frantically wrote telegrams to whoever mattered, championing the call for Uganda’s independence. As a result of his efforts, the United Nations Organization discussed Uganda’s independence during a session in New York for the first time in 1947. The struggle for Uganda’s independence had begun in 1931 under the Bataka Party [Movement], a Buganda-based peasant movement. They opposed the 1900 Buganda Agreement and subjugation by the British, among others. Through the years, the movement changed names and approaches and re-emerged in the 1940s with the original name Bataka Party, led by James Miti. At the time, the movement lacked a well-educated and charismatic leader to captain the struggle. SCHOLARSHIP TERMINATED In 1947, Semakula Mulumba, a 34-year-old radical and charismatic university student, returned from England after his scholarship was terminated as part of a crackdown on independence freedom fighters. Two years earlier, there had been a riot during which the colonial government carried out a brutal crackdown on independence crusaders. One Indian was stoned to death, two Europeans were severely injured and eight Ugandans shot dead by the police, when the riots began in the first week of January 1945, according to a 1949 Confidential Inquiry Report. Back home, members of the Bataka Party were impressed by Mulumba’s charisma, eloquence and wealth of knowledge. They raised money to send him back to England to complete his education and agitate for freedom. On October 2, 1947, he returned to England. The Bataka Party wanted Buganda to secede and they totally opposed the colonial White Paper 210, which pushed for creation of an East African Federation. However, Mulumba lobbied for national independence instead, which annoyed many party members. Mulumba took the British head-on, attacking the British government as well as Kabaka Muteesa. “They were pro-British and I must excuse them because they were not enlightened. They knew nothing about democracy and, in fact, all the people in Uganda at the time knew nothing about democracy. I was the one who introduced the idea, the idea which I got from England in 1945 when I took part in the general elections after the war which the Labour Party won. I saw the British people having the right to elect their MPs and realized that the people of Uganda should have the same right to elect their MPs so that the sons of the bakopi (commoners) could enter in the Lukiiko which was then the preserve of sons of chiefs,” Mulumba’s said in an interview published in the February 14, 1980 issue of Weekly Topic. He added, “They used to say mwana w’ani? [whose son is that one?]. That statement is still being quoted. But when I introduced the idea of democracy, the people fought for it and got it. Then democracy started in this country. Today, the people do not know who introduced voting in this country,” Mulumba said. The British colonial secretary, Mr. Creech Jones, dismissed Mulumba as a man representing a “mushroom political party” that was not recognized by the Protectorate and Mengo governments. He described Mulumba’s party as being “unrepresentative of the great mass of the people of Uganda”. He accused Mulumba of consistently refusing to use constitutional methods to express his views. However, the Bataka wrote letters to the British prime minister and the UN, saying they supported Mulumba, and the British resented him because he was fighting for the independence of Uganda. Surprisingly, as Uganda approached independence, and political parties including traditional rulers were being invited at table to discuss the possible independence of Uganda, Semakula Mulumba was never invited to officially participate in the process that laid out the framework for Uganda’s independence. Finally, when he returned at independence, egoism and politics of intrigue came in. He was arrested in 1969. Upon his release, Mulumba quit politics and nursed his frustration quietly. In 1980, he said, “You do well to them and they forget you; for they have forgotten me.” {loadposition inarticle}
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@kfm Mon, 14 Oct 2024 04:54:37
Senior four candidates start exams
Anxiety looms large across the country as the first cohort of Senior Four candidates under the new Lower Secondary Curriculum starts exams today. The curriculum came into effect in 2021. According to the Uganda National Examination Board (Uneb), a total of 379,620 students were registered to sit for Uganda Certificate of Education (UCE) examinations that will end on November 15. Under the new curriculum, emphasis is put on competence-based learning instead of rote learning and the assessment of learners’ performance is a shared responsibility of both Uneb that awards marks out of 80 percent at the respective schools that award the 20 percent. Unlike previous S.4 candidates, this year’s cohort has studied for nearly five years having been interrupted by […] The post Senior four candidates start exams first appeared on 93.3 KFM.
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@matookerepublic Mon, 14 Oct 2024 04:00:00
Former Arsenal star Fàbregas responds to Afande Kasingye’s misattributed quote about the Palmer-Saka comparison
Former Arsenal and Barcelona midfield maestro Cesc Fàbregas has stepped in to address a misattributed quote making waves on X (formerly Twitter). The Spaniard was quick to refute claims from retired police officer Afande Asan Kasingye, who shared an eye-catching statement supposedly from Fàbregas comparing Chelsea’s rising star Cole Palmer to Arsenal’s sensation Bukayo Saka. […] The post Former Arsenal star Fàbregas responds to Afande Kasingye’s misattributed quote about the Palmer-Saka comparison first appeared on Matooke Republic.
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@kfm Mon, 14 Oct 2024 03:13:38
Tayebwa lures Manchester United to visit Uganda
By Allan Darren Kyeyune Manchester United’s African star Andre Onana is yet again the talk of the Ugandan sports space. The goalkeeper will be in goal for the Cameroon national team when they play their away Group J fixture of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) Qualifiers against Kenya’s Harambee Stars at Mandela National Stadium in Namboole on Monday. That may bother a few Ugandans though rather because the majority have interest in the player because he plays for the Old Trafford club. Read more The post Tayebwa lures Manchester United to visit Uganda first appeared on 93.3 KFM.
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@matookerepublic Sun, 13 Oct 2024 17:11:00
2wo Bunnies and Don Julio Deliver A Night To Remember as Vaults Lounge celebrates 3rd Anniversary
On Saturday, Vault Lounge, one of Bugolobi’s most revered party spots celebrated its third anniversary in grand style. Sponsored by Don Julio, the celebrations transformed the venue into a haven of high-energy, excitement and good vibes. Hosted by Sheila Gashumba, the party was headlined by the amazing South African DJ duo- 2wo Bunnies. Don Julio […] The post 2wo Bunnies and Don Julio Deliver A Night To Remember as Vaults Lounge celebrates 3rd Anniversary first appeared on Matooke Republic.
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@matookerepublic Sat, 12 Oct 2024 14:40:50
Enjovu Family Business Conference highlights insights on sustainability of family businesses
On Friday, October 11th, the Enjovu Family, in partnership with I&M Bank Uganda, held yet another successful Enjovu Family Business Conference at the Sheraton Kampala Hotel. The now bi-annual gathering brought together family business leaders, advisors, and like-minded peers. Organised under the theme- “Family Governance – Managing Conflict and Building Family Businesses to Last,” the […] The post Enjovu Family Business Conference highlights insights on sustainability of family businesses first appeared on Matooke Republic.
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@sqoop Sat, 12 Oct 2024 13:22:32
African music platform to pay $1m in royalties
A leading African music platform has announced that it is now prioritising hyperlocal markets to enhance the reach and impact of both its artistes and advertisers, focusing on tailored content in key regions across the continent. “This approach has led to specific content development in their regions, where they spotlight Kalenjin and Kamba music in […] The post African music platform to pay $1m in royalties first appeared on Sqoop - Get Uganda entertainment news, celebrity gossip, videos and photos.
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@matookerepublic Sat, 12 Oct 2024 10:36:52
I no longer perform for less than Shs10 million — Bebe Cool urges artists to pursue generational wealth
Singer Bebe Cool, whose real name is Moses Ssali, has revealed that he no longer considers the music business his main job, ever since he had the opportunity to interact with business moguls like Sudhir Ruparelia and Ham Kiggundu. Speaking in an interview on a local YouTube channel, Bebe Cool stated that recently he has […] The post I no longer perform for less than Shs10 million — Bebe Cool urges artists to pursue generational wealth first appeared on Matooke Republic.
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@sqoop Sat, 12 Oct 2024 06:00:06
How Swangz Avenue is set to revolutionise Ugandan music
Swangz Avenue is set to break new ground in Uganda’s music industry with its upcoming All-Star album, mixed with cutting-edge Dolby Atmos technology. This innovative sound technology creates a fully immersive, three-dimensional audio experience, allowing sound to move around the listener. “We always strive to deliver the best for our fans, and Dolby Atmos allows […] The post How Swangz Avenue is set to revolutionise Ugandan music first appeared on Sqoop - Get Uganda entertainment news, celebrity gossip, videos and photos.
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