GOSSIP: Singer Rema Namakula and etiquette that does not suit her looks and level of talent have appeared in sentences and online conversations multiple times. The latest incidence is a video that has now gone viral. The video has her clad in a gomesi performing at a wedding ignoring instructions from those that hired her. The video originally from a TikTok account of a one Slimdaddy has a voice over of a man who claims to be the one that invited her to the wedding. With a frustrated tone laced with anger, he says Rema is not afraid to show…
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Kanungu, Kigezi: Business commission disagreement dragged the interim Radio station Manager of 91. 5 Kanungu FM (KFM) last week to bitterly beat up fellow work to nearly death. Manager identified Twinamatsiko Nelson Tumuramye Anita aka Anita Rose found themselves into a nasty fight after each of them claimed commission of the business that had landed at the station. Before the said Nelson was posted as the station Manager, the one Anita Rose was the station receptionist and the cashier until the one Twinamatsiko Nelson threw her away claiming the post of a cashier, a receptionist, Radio presenter and also as…
Kampala, Uganda: The Select Committee investigating alleged mismanagement of NSSF has kicked off the probe, with leadership of National Organisation of Trade Unions (NOTU). NOTU said that NSSF is faced with the challenge of non compliance, especially in remittances of savers funds by employers and misuse of funds by top management. Chairperson NSSF, Mr. peter Kimbowa on the spot. NOTU Board member, Juma Mwamula called for an evaluation of investments undertaken by NSSF, saying that the real estate investment does not benefit workers. NSSF channelled savers money to invest in real estate, where several house units have been put up…
By Julius Mugaga Tukacungurwa/Umoja Standard. Mengo, Uganda: Taking to his twitter account this evening, National Unity Platform (NUP) Principal, Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu wrote; We made a courtesy call on the Katikkiro of Buganda, Owek. @cpmayiga at Bulange, Mengo. We discussed various issues affecting the people of Buganda and Uganda generally, including abductions and other rights violations, the land grabbing that has left many people in distress, etc. We are very grateful for the hospitality and look forward to a situation where all our voices will become even louder against injustice and oppression. Ssabasaja Kabaka Awangaale! This follows a story this…
Kinshasa, DRC: Ululations and chanting rocked Democratic Republic of Congo as massive crowds jubilated for Pope Francis as he travelled by the streets of Capital Kinshasa in his popemobile on Tuesday, beginning a visit that will highlight the human cost of decades of conflict in the vast central African country. Francis is the first pope to visit Congo since John Paul II in 1985, when it was still known as Zaire. About half of Congo’s population of 90 million are Roman Catholics. Tens of thousands of people lined the route from Kinshasa airport into town, with some breaking away to…
Kampala, Uganda: NUP’s President Robert Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine and Leader of Opposition, also Kyagulanyi’s Deputy Mathias Mpuuga together with the Katikiro of Buganda Charles Peter Mayiga has begun closed door meeting at the seat of the Buganda Kingdom in Mengo. The meeting follows an impasse with in the NUP Political Party that has lasted for more than 16 months with each party leader accusing the other of a number of leadership weaknesses, both in Parliament and at the Party Headquarters. A source privy to the issues told this website last week that the issues between the two parties include…
Kampala, Uganda: Queen Kaftah, the girl who appeared in a video beating up a friend Pretty Nicole with her friends over a boyfriend, has been sentenced to three (3) years in jail over aggravated torture. Pretty Nicole tormentor, Kafta Queen broke down while in court, asking the magistrate to give her a convenient punishment, before it decide on the punishment. Report by Freeman News. How kafta was arrested….. Kafta Queen was arrested by Officers attached to Police’s Crime Intelligence Unit few weeks ago and was sent on remand in Luzira till today when she appeared before court for judgment. Queen was…
KENYA: One Tabby Ndung’u, a 26-year-old woman has been charged a fine equivalent to Ugx594,651 shillings or serve a 6-month jail term for insulting a police officer. The lady hurled insults at police officers on Tuesday after they caught her making out with a man inside a car. Tabby, according to a police report, was found kissing a man passionately inside a car that had been carelessly stopped in the middle of a busy road. The incident happened in Kenya near Thika Road Mall (TRM). Police said the lady and her man did not mind the traffic they were building. When approached and…
OIL CITY/ALBERTINE REGION: As President Yoweri Museveni and his ruling NRM party celebrate their 37th year in power, the Chinese National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) has given them a befitting anniversary gift; launching the country into crude oil production stage. Uganda’s Liberation Day, when Museveni’s rebel army captured power in 1986, is marked on January 26 with a public holiday and celebrations across the country. Report by The Independent. But the high point of the celebrations this year came two days earlier, on Jan.24, when CNOOC launched the start of its drilling for oil at a high-level event at its…
Mitooma, Uganda: Humility is the quality of being humble. Deputy Speaker of Parliament Thomas Tayebwa expressed his humility as he shared a meal of posho and beans, on a plastic plate with the UPDF Engineering Brigade. This happened when the Deputy Speaker and Chairman of LC5 Mitooma District Benon Karyeija toured hospital construction works in Tayebwa’s constituency. Tayebwa shared the photos on his social media and captioned them; “On a tour of the Theatre block and maternity ward being constructed at Bitereko Health Center lll with Chairman LC5 Mitooma District, Mr. Benon Karyeija, we were hosted to lunch by the…