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Ghetto Gladiator and Member of Parliament representing the good people of Kyadondo East, Bobi Wine, has taken the whole boxing thing to another level.

Weeks after a video of him training his wife how to box emerged, another has come out, this time, of himself having a serious training session in his compound.

Whoever the ‘Byekwaso’ singer is training for, only time will tell.

Here is a video of his training in his compound.

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Baxragga star, Aziz Azion has been cooking and his new video Okankanya is ready. Watch it below

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NBS TV Katchup show and After 5 presenter is celebrating his birthday today.

The Purple party CEO who was born on May 1st 1984 has made 34 years today.

Douglas a Mass Communications pro and Graphics Animator joined television 8 years ago and has never looked back.

His career that started from a simple music show at Record TV earned him an NTV deal where he presented a music show called NTV The Beat before joining NBS TV recently.

We wish you a happy birthday.

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If anyone ever wondered what you get when you line up three of Africa’s most accomplished artistes on one stage, the short answer- pure magic – was delivered in emphatic style at the Serena hotel on Monday evening.

On an occasion that fittingly coincided with the International Jazz Day, the annual Isaiah Katumwa Concert served jazz lovers in Uganda a first-hand treat of Africa’s jazz royalty in the form of two internationally acclaimed guest performers; Manu Dibango and Afro-soul songstress Siphokazi, who joined our own Isaiah Katumwa for a live performance many will remember for a long time.

The concert had been themed as a tribute to the departed South African maestro Hugh Masekela, who passed on in January this year. It was therefore fitting that a living legend, Cameroonian Manu Dibango was chosen as the guest performer to headline the event.

Revellers were reminded soon enough why the concert retains the tag of one of the country’s premier jazz affairs, as host Katumwa delivered more than half a dozen of his outstanding jazz tunes that earned the genre acceptance in Uganda’s music mainstream. Katumwa`s performance sandwiched the electric vibes provided by the South African Siphokazi’s Afro-soul mixes, setting the stage for the man of the evening – Manu Dibango. He did not disappoint.

The man best known for the 1972 single “Soul Makossa”, a song which influenced several hits including Michael Jackson’s ‘Wanna Be Startin’ Something”, was quick to take charge, enrolling an awestruck audience on a musical journey with a style, grace and authority only a man with 100 albums to his name and close to 50 years of recording under his belt could.

“Makossa” means dance in Dibango’s native tongue, and he sure had revellers up on their feet as he worked his saxophone, delivering several of his other works of beauty before Katumwa joined up with the 84-year- old virtuoso to create the evening’s crowning moment of musical bliss with a joint delivery of Soul Makossa.

There was never a dull moment, and with Johnnie Walker on hand to delight the palates of those in attendance, everyone who had made it to the Victoria Hall at Serena knew their money had been well spent. It was an evening which had lived up to the promise that a lineup of three award-winning artistes provides. The jazz enthusiasts present had, indeed, been blown away.

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Brenda Eunice Jasmine, a Ugandan socialite based in Denmark, is in trouble after she was over the weekend collected from Denmark by Swedish police over an outstanding debt.

Sources have intimidated to us that Brenda took a loan of 150,0000 Swedish Kroner from a Swedish bank called Swedbank in 2013 which she used to pay for her studies at Örebro University, Sweden and also finance her  luxurious life.

After failing to pay the loan, sources reveal that she moved to Denmark where she then enrolled at the Roskilde University to continue with her studies.

It is said that the bank had sent her several warnings to pay the debt in vain. She has now been apprehended and could be sentenced to a jail term.

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When he married a woman tripple his age, many laughed at him but little did they know that former Leone Island member Guvnor Ace had a plan.

The aged woman who many called granny took Guvnor to Sweden and in a short time their marriage ended.

Somehow Guvnor made it in Sweden with the help of friends and now we are told by our sources that he is living the dream with a job, a roof over his head with no plans whatsoever to return to the dusty streets of Kampala.

A source even told us that he may soon reignite his music career that had gone to the rugs and start topping charts in Uganda.

Guvnor Ace in Sweden

We will keep you posted.

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Musician Irene Ntale formerly of Swangz Avenue has kick-started rehearsals for her Unchained concert.

The concert which is two months away is expected to be a big one with Irene gettint personal with fans like never before.

Today, the singer shared a video from her rehearsals that have started earlier than usual.

A source from her camp told us that she wants to make history come July 6th and that is why she is starting rehearsals early.

Recently she launched concert t-shirts for her Irene Ntale Unchained concert. The beautiful T-shirts can be bought by fans at a small fee.

The concert will take place at the Kampala Serena Hotel.

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Bebe Cool’s number one and mother of the singer’s children has not had a rosey way to the top, the former banker, video vixen and now event guru penned down a labour message that will inspire you.

Speaking about her work life, Zuena narrated how she has been through it all and how she is thankful that she can look back at everything and say Ebenezer without fear.

‘I celebrate today like I have never before for so many reasons, I have seen my business grow from zero to something am proud of. 6yrs in the baking industry & 3yrs in the decoration industry. It’s surely been a bumpy road i went through and still going through, from insults, eating late or not at all because of time, learning, clients from all walks of life but here I am today standing tall & proud & gearing for even better services for my clients.’

Zuena went on to speak about the best part of her work.

‘The best part of my work is when a client walks to me after am done working, with that wow on their face and tells me “this is so beautiful & yet very affordable, people are just scared to approach you because of your name”. Happy Labor Day’

Zuena after an event set up

We hope you pick a leaf from Zuena if you are not yet where you want to be.

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Rapper Navio has finally spoken out on why he didn’t participate in the ‘Who is Who’ battle that has seen rappers countrywide tearing each other apart for dominance.

Speaking about the battle, Navio assured fans that he is not into the habit of fighting with small boys. The Luga Flow star then revealed that at the moment he is concentrating on securing international collaborations since this was his plan for the first part of the year.

“I become an award winning artiste in East Africa by playing with small boys. I have left such things to them. I am busy securing international collabos. I have just had a song with Vanessa Mdee, I have also a new one with Ice Prince and many more with Chidima and Shey Shey are on the way. I cannot waste my time with the likes of Gravity.”

Asked what he thinks of Gravity’s Black Panther that was stinging him, Navio had this to say.

“Gravity Omutujju was my fan from way back. He was even in one of my fans groups and I used to see his messages. I don’t know if he got bitter for not getting a collabo back then or something but I don’t consider much of him. The problem is that he attacked my mother in his song yet everyone knows she is like the coolest person ever,”Navio said.

He then warned Gravity that young rappers are going to overtake him if he is not serious. “Fik Fameica and the boys are coming and they are not joking. They are very serious and if he doesn’t organise his house, he will be in trouble.”

We will keep you posted.

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Kleith Kyatuhaire celebrated her birthday on Labour Day.

This year round, things were different as she was spoiled by her day one friends.

From a live Instagram video on her page earlier in the day,  Tinah Teise and friends were there all the way with Kleith formerly of NTV Uganda as they helped her celebrate another year. They made up and got ready to go party live on the Instagram video.

They then headed out for dinner and had a great time before going out partying.

We all have friends, but clearly Kleith has special friends. Happy birthday once again.

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Turns out there are men out there who still know how to show a woman real love, not just through words but also through actions.

When musician Jera was celebrating her birthday, the ‘My Boos’ singer had no idea what her man had in plan for her.

Jera was pleasantly surprised with  a brand new car at Autospa at the birthday celebration.

Here are the photos.

Jera is a musician and businesswoman. She is the only one who sings in the family and her family has been very supportive of my career. She started singing late 2016 and is musically inspired by Yemi Alade. She is versatile about which genre she sings.

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Early birds now have a bigger reason to rise every morning and tune to NTV Uganda as the Morning at NTV show has been revamped.

The new show that will be airing from 6am in the morning features top celebs Andrew Kyamagero formerly of Galaxy FM and Flavia Tumusiime of the NTV Tonight news cast and Capital FM’s PM show.

Morning at NTV is an informative and enlightening breakfast show like no other, which will premiere this Friday at 6.30am with a fresh face and new voice. Make sure you catch it!

We will keep you posted.

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Not so long ago B2C singers, Julio, Bobby Lash and Mr Lee changed their concert date from Saturday, September 1st to Friday, August 31st. This showed the highest level of maturity after they found out that Swangz Ave had placed a conc

Chameleone Sheebah

ert on the same date  and they had an International Artiste Tarrus Riley flying in.

Fast forward, Sheebah and Chameleone find themselves in a similar situation. This after Chameleone announced that his concert will take place on November 30th this year. Sheebah also made it known that her concert will take place on the same date. Leaving a pending battle for fans to watch behind.

However, we predict as was the case with the B2C one of the artistes is going to pull out. And basing on who makes this wise decision, it will be the best since at this time we dont need any fighting in the indsutry. We have  already seen enough with the ‘Who is Who’ saga with some artistes abusing fellow artistes mothers. 

Who will be the mature one? We cannot wait to find out and be the first to inform you!

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• Athletes hosted to Exclusive Luncheon at MTN Nyonyi Gardens.
• MTN Uganda boosts Uganda Athletics Federation sponsorship with a three-year agreement extension to cater for its annual calendar activities countrywide.

MTN Uganda this afternoon hosted the Uganda Athletics Team to a special lunch with the Executive Leadership from MTN Uganda.

The luncheon was hosted to specially congratulate them for their outstanding performance in the just completed 2018 Commonwealth Games in Australia. It provided an interactive session between the athletes, UAF officials and the MTN Senior Leadership.

MTN Uganda CEO Wim Vanhelleputte was reflective about the success of the team and the support given by the telecom company towards athletics in Uganda; “We have been a proud partner of the Uganda Athletics Federation for the last 14 years supporting various events & activities including team selection and training” he said.

“We are therefore very proud of the gallant Ugandan sportsmen and women who tussled it out with the more than 4,000 participants from the Commonwealth nations to emerge 15th overall on the medals table,” said Wim Vanhelleputte. He further recounted how he has always been an athletics fan, even bearing childhood dreams of being a track and field professional athlete and winning Gold medals someday.

Uganda won three gold, one silver and two bronze medals (six medals in total); this has been noted as one of Uganda’s best performances in an international sports event since 1970.

“We are extremely proud to be part of this success. We applaud the team for their hard work and efforts. As we approach our 20th Anniversary later this year, we shall continue our partnership with UAF to support development of athletics in Uganda” said Olivier Prentout, the MTN’s chief marketing officer.

Uganda Athletics Federation President, Dominic Otucet applauded MTN for their continued partnership and sponsorship of the Federation events.

“We continue to register success because of your generosity. Our success is MTN’s success and for the country at large. Thank you for playing your part to build the sporting discipline of athletics in Uganda. Your efforts will not go unnoticed. We pledge to strive to excel each time we hit the race track.”

During the event, MTN Uganda revealed that it had recently penned an additional three-year sponsorship package for Uganda Athletics Federation calendar activities.

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Musician Fik Fameica has a whole lot of international collabos lined up for studio time and release soon.

Speaking about his collabos in an interview, the Kama Invan managed artiste told us that he has a collaboration with WizKid coming out soon. He also said that he has one with Cassper Nyovest coming out soon too. The later is a remix of his song, Mafia that he did with the South African Hip Hop star during his visit to Uganda recently.

Speaking about his international collabos, Fik said; “Like I have just said I have lots of international collabos coming but the ones my fans know are the ones I am going to release first. they know the one of Wizkid from Nigeria and Cassper. I will start by releasing those and then I will be telling them what else is coming up.”

Cassper, Fik and WizKid

This comes after fellow rapper Navio revealed that he has new international collabos coming up in addition to Paper which he did with Ice Prince and The Mith and Nielewe which he did with Tanzania’s Vanesa Mdee.

We will keep you posted.

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Coca-Cola Beverages Africa Public Affairs & Communications Director Simon Kaheru addressing media.

Plastic Recycling Industries, a Subsidiary of Coca-Cola Beverages Africa has announced a plastic waste collection drive with Shisa Nyama, a weekly barbecue event. Under the partnership, Plastic Recycling Industries will provide plastic collection equipment at Zone 7, a popular restaurant, bar and lounge that hosts Shisa Nyama every Saturday.

The Shisa Nyama event and Zone 7 generate a large amount of used plastics weekly and have committed to ensure these plastics are diverted from landfills and sent to Plastic Recycling Industries for recycling instead.

Coca-Cola Beverages Africa Public Affairs & Communications Director Simon Kaheru thanked House Of DJs, organizers of Shisa Nyama, and Zone 7 Management for being responsible about environmental conservation.

“We are happy to create more partnerships and invite more event’s organizers and hospitality outlets to take the initiative and join us in ridding the environment of plastic waste,” Kaheru said.

“It is also gratifying that we are growing partnerships in plastic waste collection within the lifestyle-‘feel good moments’ category, which gives us the opportunity to sensitize revelers about waste segregation in a fun, casual environment,” he added.

Zone 7 Director Lotani Kagwa said the commitment to collect plastic waste was long term. “We have always been concerned about plastic waste being disposed wrongly and ending up in soil and in drainage. We have designated an area where we will collect plastics and separate them from other types of waste. Every week we will ensure that the Plastic Recycling Industries Team can collect them easily and recycle them,” he said.

House Of DJs Manager Afsa Umutesi said the campaign was timely and would go a long way in changing the events management landscape. “We are happy to form this partnership because it makes a major contribution to keeping Uganda clean and also protecting our environment. As event managers we must demonstrate responsibility by actually doing the right things. Eventually we will extend this collaboration to all events that we host and organize,” she said.

As Coca-Cola Beverages Africa (CCBA), driving the initiative to collect plastics and help conserve the environment is vital to the quality of life of all communities in Uganda.

The philosophy behind Plastic Recycling Industries (PRI) is to take plastic waste out of the environment, reduce it, and re-use it as valuable products. While doing so, we not only protect the environment, but also create jobs for youth and women from underprivileged backgrounds who have found a livelihood in waste collection.

The Coca-Cola Company recently announced a new global packaging strategy and recommitted a “World Without Waste” target where -WE COMMIT TO HELP COLLECT AND RECYCLE A BOTTLE OR CAN FOR EVERY ONE IT SELLS BY 2030.

In Uganda, Coca-Cola Beverages Africa Uganda is committed to achieve the 100% collection target ahead of 2030. “At Coca-Cola Beverages Africa Uganda, we are cognizant of the fact that for a Country to have a successful recycling program, it takes collective effort of several stakeholders. On this note, I would like to appreciate our partners KCCA and Masaka Recycling Initiative in walking with us on this journey. As PRI, we are ready to work with KCCA to put collection points at all public concerts and events going forward,” Kaheru said.

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Beverage giant Coca-Cola has handed over UGX10,000,000 to Geofrey Madira, an Arua-based hawker and a lucky winner in the ongoing Under The Crown Promotion dubbed ‘Samba Ne Coca-Cola’.

During the handover that took place in Arua town, a visibly excited Madira showed off his winning crown and encouraged the residents to continue drinking Coca-Cola and get a chance to experience the joy of winning.

“I am so grateful. 10 million shillings is the kind of money that can change your life. Thank you so much Coca-Cola,” he exclaimed, adding that he would continue taking part in the promotion to win more money.

Last month, Coca-Cola Uganda partnered with World Cup Official broadcaster Multichoice and Global partner HiSense to bring the World Cup closer to consumers all across Uganda through the ‘Samba Ne Coca-Cola’ promotion. Since its launch, lucky consumers across the country have been winning Television sets, Multichoice Dishes and Decoders, soccer balls, brand new t-shirts, packs of soda and cash prizes of UGX4,000,000. Madira is the first winner of the UGX 10,000,000 jackpot.

Speaking about the ongoing promotion, Mrs. Maggie Kigozi encouraged Coca-Cola consumers to continue drinking Coca-Cola products and also stand a chance to win.

“We are so happy to reward our first UGX10,000,000 winner. We are also rewarding many others who have won television sets and other exciting prizes in different parts of the country. I encourage all our consumers to keep drinking and we promise to keep rewarding them for the duration of this campaign.”

To participate in the Samba Ne Coca-Cola promotion, consumers simply have to purchase a Coca-Cola, Fanta, Sprite, Novida, Krest or Stoney 300ml glass or 500ml plastic bottle bearing a white crown and check under the crown for their exciting prize. Redemption of prizes will be at identified distribution points all across the country.

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By Our Reporter

The 19th edition of Blankets and Wine promises to be an exciting one as Uganda’s freshest star, Fik Fameica shares the stage with South African musician and disc spinner Heavy K and Rwanda’s The Ben on May 6 at the Lugogo Cricket Oval.

The Ugandan rapper who has made his name for hits like Kutama and his most recent; Property, will be taking to the stage at Blankets and Wine for the first time. Revellers are in for a treat as Heavy K is an acclaimed performer who has produced multiple hits, including collaborating with Uganda’s Eddy Kenzo on Yasolo, while The Ben on the other hand is best known to Ugandans for his Binkolera collabo with local songstress Sheebah.

A quarterly picnic style music festival powered by Tusker Malt Lager and organised by House of DJs, Blankets and Wine is one of the events on the Ugandan social calendar that revelers look forward to the most, thanks to its unmatched offering of great music, fun, and good vibes.

“The upcoming edition of Blankets and Wine is yet another opportunity for Tusker Malt Lager to appreciate our consumers and take them to a place where they discover some of the finest African music acts,” said Grace Namutebi, Uganda Breweries Limited Brand Manager, Premium Beers.

“Tusker Malt has been very deliberate and consistent about promoting local talent and we are pleased to have Uganda’s music star of the moment – Fik Fameica – making a debut appearance at Blankets and Wine. With the acts from SA and Rwanda who are gracing the stage there is no doubt that this is going to be a show we will all be talking about for a long time,” she added.

Since its first edition, Blankets and Wine has crafted a steady reputation as East Africa’s premier music experience, designed to showcase outstanding musicians in the emerging genres of Afro-based music. That is not about to change at the nineteenth edition as a rich cast of acts both, local and international, will grace the stage. In addition to the headlining acts, the lineup also includes The Roots Warriors, Nu Kampala, Aka Dope Band, Da Bundus, Dj Xzyl and Vj Spinny.

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Mr. Gilbert Assi (C), the Managing Director of Vivo Energy Uganda addresses the media.

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The annual Tokosa Food Festival has been launched. Now in its 4th edition, the  event  brings together foodies, food vendors, friends and families to enjoy culinary delights, entertainment, great deals from exhibitors as well as networking.

According to the organizers, the festival will be a fun-filled family event with lots of entertainment and fun activities lined up including DJ sets throughout the day and cook-offs in which lots of great prizes will be won. The kids will also be catered for in the fun with a dedicated play area with lots of games & entertainment as well as a junior chef competition. Revelers will also get to try out different cuisines from around the global as there will be over 100 food vendors showcasing at the Tokosa food court.

Speaking at the Tokosa launch event, the Managing Director of Vivo Energy Uganda, Mr. Gilbert Assi said: “The Tokosa Food Festival idea was borne out of the ‘Bring on The Good Times’ Shell Gas brand campaign, as a platform to celebrate a growing vibrant food culture in Kampala as well as an avenue to promote culinary experience for Ugandans.”

For the third year, the Tokosa Food Festival proceeds will go towards support of the Bless a Child Foundation, a beneficiary that aims at providing improved Childhood cancer care services so as to increase remission and dignity for terminally ill children. This year, a new charity has been added – Grace Villa in Kabale. Grace Villa, which in addition to providing disadvantaged girls with support, has recently started the Wateeka initiative to offer free lunch to school-going children that may not afford it. The Wateeka initiative will receive a new Shell Gas Kitchen with a year’s supply of free gas.  The Bless a Child Foundation will receive a year’s worth of Gas Refill for their new kitchen.

The event is supported by other partners including Coca-cola, Jumia Food and Ugachick. It will be held on Sunday, June 17 at UMA Show Grounds Lugogo.

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