As the holiday season draws closer, Ugandan travellers onboard Emirates can enjoy one of the country’s best-scripted films, Bala Bala Sese, a Ugandan movie on ice, Emirates’ award-winning entertainment system with over 4,500 channels of on-demand content. The movie is an unimaginable love story between a village belle, Margaret, played by Natasha Sinayobye and a […]
Arsenal has sacked manager Unai Emery following the disastrous sequence of results that culminated in Thursday’s 2-1 home defeat to Eintracht Frankfurt in the Europa League, in front of a largely empty Emirates Stadium. The club’s board had publicly backed their manager during the recent international break saying he was “the right man for the […]
Tottenham Hotspur has appointed Jose Mourinho as their new head coach after sacking Mauricio Pochettino, the club said on Wednesday. The former Chelsea and Manchester United manager has signed a contract that runs until the end of the 2022/23 season, the north London club said in an online statement. Spurs sacked manager Mauricio Pochettino on […]
dfcu Bank continues its mission to spotlight, inspire and reward women entrepreneurs in the SME sector across the nation through its ongoing partnership with Monitor Publications Limited’s (MPL) flagship brand Daily Monitor and Uganda Investment Authority-UIA in an ongoing countrywide financial literacy campaign dubbed ‘Rising Woman’ under the theme ‘Taking your Business Ahead’. The Rising […]
Granit Xhaka has been stripped of the Arsenal captaincy, manager Unai Emery has confirmed, with Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang taking over the armband. Xhaka, who was named the Gunners’ permanent skipper in late September, succeeded Laurent Koscielny in the role. But he has increasingly come under fire from supporters with abuse aimed at his conduct and performances, […]
Coach Tolbert Onyango has announced the Uganda Rugby Men’s Sevens squad that will take part in the 2019 Rugby Africa Men’s Sevens Tournament in Johannesburg, South Africa. The Uganda Rugby Cranes will be led by Captain Michael Okorach. The tournament also serves as a qualifier for the 2020 Olympics in Japan and will be battles […]
Coaches Matia Lule and Mike Mutebi were 100% at fault when their clubs were consecutively dumped out of the CAF Confederations Cup over the weekend. Lule, whose Proline FC needed any win or a draw of fewer than two goals was beaten 0-2 by Libyan Outfit Al Nasser Benghazi at the Startimes Stadium Lugogo despite […]
A new report by Jumia Uganda has indicated that more Ugandans are embracing E-commerce or online shopping. The firm said that this is reflected on the number of online orders that are increasing especially during their annual Black Friday sales. Jumia Uganda Chief Executive officer Ron Kawamala told reporters while announcing the upcoming Jumia Black […]
Entebbe High Court Justice Jane Abodo has this morning sentenced Godfrey Wamala alias Troy to 14 years in prison for killing Singer Moses Sekibogo who was known by his stage name as Mowzey Radio. Justice Abodo on Monday this week found Wamala guilty of manslaughter and not murder which he had been charged with, which […]
A panel of judges from Arsenal and its official online money transfer partner, WorldRemit have selected eight coaches as finalists for their Future Stars coaching programme. The eight finalists will now compete in a public vote on www.FutureStars.WorldRemit.com for the chance to attend a personalised training programme with Arsenal Football Development coaches in London – […]
Huawei has boosted the 2019 edition of the MTN Kampala Marathon with 250,000,000 shillings towards maternal health care in Uganda. The 2019 edition of the MTN Kampala Marathon will be held on Sunday 24th November starting at the Kololo independence grounds with runners participating in either of 4 categories including; the full marathon (42Km), half […]
Crown Beverages Limited, the makers of Pepsi, Mirinda, Sting, Nivana and Mountain Dew has launched yet another promotion campaign dubbed ‘Nyongeza Aya Bass with Mirinda’ to give back to their customers. Nyongeza is a multi-ethnic Ugandan word that means, “give more” while Aya Bass is a popular slang that means, “let’s go” that was popularized […]
Standard Chartered Bank in partnership with Challenges Uganda has launched a 6-month youth employability programme under its Futuremakers initiative valued at Ugx 300,000,000. The “Youth-to-Work” initiative which has been unveiled at Kampala Serena Hotel to over 100 guests will benefit 40 young and enthusiastic out of university youths with an opportunity to work with Small […]