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The Ugandan Government, in a move to avail more funds for priority sectors, has initiated budget cuts across it’s Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDA) for the ongoing financial year(2021/2022FY) The massive cut back summing up to Shs203.4 billion will also affect government universities, parastatals and various commissions of government. It is our understanding that at […]
Gospel Singer Renez, alias Meble Kyakoba, is one of the vibrant female musicians on the Uganda Gospel Entertainment Scene. Managed by 1TedMusic, she was once nominated as one of the breakthrough artists in the VIGA awards 2019. The name Renez is an acronym meaning Re-assuring, Exciting, Natural, Eager, Zeal. She was born on November 30, 1993, in a family of four girls and raised by a single mother the Late Sarah Magezi in a God fearing family. She attended schools like Penstar Primary School, Light Secondary School, […]
Kenneth Kanaabi, 25, is an upcoming multidisciplinary designer and very passionate about design. Born and raised in a financially humble background, Kanaabi has defied the odds to brand himself a victor in most of the schemes he sets out to work around. Kanaabi is born to creative parents; His dad, Mr. Joseph Nsimbe is a […]
Industrial Hemp Uganda Ltd has confirmed that it exported 400kgs of medical marijuana were to Germany on 16th October from Uganda. According to www.gmg-compliance.org, a website run by a German-based training institution on good manufacturing practices for health product makers, a kilogram of medical cannabis costs approximately USH18 million. The same source claims that Medical […]
Monday evening saw another terrorist attack in Uganda as a bomb in a public bus detonated, killing one and injuring another person as the bus was on its way in Mpigi district. The suspected accomplice is said to have disembarked at Maya about 10km after the Maya Checkpoint. The suicide Bomber has since then been […]
President Yoweri K. Museveni has revealed that the person who died in the Ishaka-bound bus yesterday, was a terrorist loosely referred to as ‘Mutujju’. The incident occurred at Lungala in Mpigi district along the Kampala-Masaka Highway as a bus belonging to Swift Safaris Bus Company moved passengers from Kampala to Ishaka in the western region of Uganda. According to Police, Muzafala was in company of another suspected terrorist who got off the bus at Maya village. Also, 50 of the 52 passengers that were on the bus survived unhurt. The terrorist, Muzafala but also calling himself Isaac Matovu, was part of the Pader group that had been sent by the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) to blow up the mourners during the […]
In 2019, Uganda ― the Pearl of Africa welcomed onto her national scene a new, vibrant, beautiful lady who was yet to wave off the country’s flag within and outside national borders. Standing out of 22 contestants at the grand finale, Oliver Nakakande was declared Miss Uganda Beauty Pageant winner and was crowned Miss Uganda […]
In Wankoko, the Industrial area along Old Port Bell road is where I met a mother of two, Loy Nanyonga. She is one of the hundreds of people who deal in the Flower and Plant Nurseries business in this area. About 8 years ago, Nanyonga was employed in different organisations as a secretary and photographer. […]
Growing from a little girl to womanhood, taking different routes to bring food on the table, balancing work and family with the spirit of triumph time ever; summarises her life story ― Pretty Katende. Born to Hajji Yusuf Katende and Hajjati White Fatuma, Katende attended schools like Nkoyoyo Boarding Primary School Matale, Kinaawa High School […]
Gospel singer, Grace Nakimera has yet released another gospel single dubbed, ‘God of Fire’ in which she magnifies the power and Might God has. Produced by Riko Panda and co-written with Henry Woods, Nakimera told Record FM that this song is a powerful, fun and amazing song that will get people in the mood. Besides, she says that the message therein is inspired by the fact […]