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Draws for the 2018 Uganda Cup held

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Our Reporter
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The Federation of Uganda Football Associations under the competitions department today held the draws for the 44th edition of the Uganda Cup for the round of 64 stage.
The matches will be played starting on the weekend of 20th January 2018.
The final will be played during the last weekend of June in Kumi district.
Kampala Capital City Authority FC won the 2017 Uganda Cup with a resounding 2-0 performance over Paidha Black Angels. The tie was played at the Green Light stadium in Lira.

Uganda Cup (Round of 64) full draw:

Simba Vs Paidha Black Angels – Gayaza
Onduparaka Vs Light S.S – Green Light Stadium, Arua
Kyetume Vs Luweero United – Mukono
Seeta United Vs Kirinya-Jinja S.S – Seeta
Nabitende Vs Bumate – Iganga
Pallisa United Vs Nyamityobora – Pallisa
SC Villa Jogoo Vs Hope Doves – Masaka Recreational Stadium
Bronken Vs Vipers – Kasese
Kireka United Vs Tigers – Namboole Stadium Outside playground
Greater Masaka Vs Police – Masaka Recreational Stadium
Kansai Plascon Vs Buitaba – NARO Ntawo grounds
Lira United Vs Kataka – Lira
Ntoda Vs Soana – Ntungamo
Express Vs Kachumbala Rock Stars – Mutesa II Wankulukuku Stadium
Synergy Vs Bukedea Town Council – Masaka Recreational Stadium
Doves All Stars Vs Agape – Arua
Rushere Vs Kamuli Park – Rushere
Kabale Sharp Vs Busuula Sports Club – Kabale Municipal Stadium
Mbarara F.C Vs KCCA – Kakyeeka Stadium, Mbarara
Lungujja Galaxy Vs Mbarara City – Mutesa II Stadium, Wankulukuku
Vuura Vs Bright Stars – Moyo
City Lads Vs Kira United – Lugogo, Kampala
Bugwere Vs Ndejje University – Bugwere
Ntinda United Vs Young Elephants – Kamwokya playground
Proline Vs Nkambi Coffee – Lugogo, Kampala
Water Vs Maroons – Kyambogo
Masavu Vs Jinja Municipal Council Hippos – Fisheries Training Institute playground, Bugonga – Entebbe
Suncity Vs BUL – Kasese
Busia Fisheries Vs UPDF – Busia
URA Vs KJT – Mandela National Stadium, Namboole
Kitara Vs Koboko Rising Stars – Boma playground, Hoima
Amuka Bright Stars Vs Saviour – Lira

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Besigye launches ‘Tubalemese’ campaign to curtail gov’t

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Geoffery Serugo
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Kizza Besigye

Former presidential candidate Dr. Kiiza Besigye has today implored security organs to join him in the campaign against the current regime following the signing of age limit bill into law by president Museveni.
In December last year 317 legislators voted for amendment as 97 voted against the expunging of both the lower and upper presidential age limit that was capped at 35 and 75 years and increasing their terms in office from five to seven years.
Speaking at the launch of ‘’Kulemesa (curtail) campaign ’’ that is aimed at awakening and empowerment of our citizens against the current regime, Dr. Besigye said security operatives should do what they can to disable what is happening because it’s legitimate to disable the regime we have in Uganda.
‘’Security operatives suffer most in this country yet they work 24 hours and earn less, they should join us in the campaign of failing the regime that is holding the country hostage’’ he added in a press briefing held at FDC offices at Katonga road.
He howeve,r warned Ugandans of supporting the military junta saying it will be risk of laying wrath on them, ‘’If we identify you, you will added you to the list of people that are meant to be isolated.
He further noted that regime relies on dysfunctional security which has led to massive killings of people where has become Museveni a visitor of all victims must be brought down.
According to Dr. Besigye, their option of nonviolence is deliberate, “we can bring down the regime without throwing a stone, and every person has to act in a bid to fail this regime’’.
Adding “This campaign can be concluded fairly quickly if everybody acts, whether these people (legislators and the president) increase their terms in office, they should first finish this one before thinking of the other two years’’.
With this campaign, he says they will launch a national assembly that will include people’s representatives from the 317 constituencies that were betrayed by their supposed representatives.
“These representatives that betrayed people must be subjected to total isolation and rejection, We are going to isolate them socially, politically and economically as well as boycotting their shops and schools’’.

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India bans PwC from auditing listed companies for 2 years

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Agencies
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Media persons and policemen gather outside the office of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC), the auditors of Satyam Computers Services, in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad.

India’s securities regulator has banned the global accountancy firm PwC from auditing listed companies in the country for two years, after it failed to spot a $1.7bn fraud at the defunct Satyam Computer Services. In a damning 108-page report, the Securities and Exchange Board of India wrote that PwC had neglected to check “glaring anomalies” in the financial details reported by Satyam, whose downfall was one of India’s worst financial scandals in recent years.

For about five years beginning in 2003, Sebi wrote, Satyam inflated its revenue by accounting for 7,561 fake invoices. The fraud persisted in part because PwC, Satyam’s auditor, “did not independently check the veracity of the monthly bank statements”. It relied upon assurances from Satyam “without any further examination or inquiry into the matter and ignored the balance confirmations received directly from banks which were showing true balance”, the regulator wrote. As well as the auditing suspension, Sebi ordered PwC to disgorge wrongful gains of about Rs130m ($2m). PwC said it was “disappointed”, adding that it would seek a stay on the order before it became effective at the end of March, on the grounds that it was out of line with a prior High Court order.

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URA FC advance to Mapinduzi cup final

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Our Reporter
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Uganda Revenue Authority advanced to the final of the 2018 Mapinduzi cup after defeating Tanzanian club Yanga 5-4 in a penalty shootout. Fulltime had ended goalless.
Patrick Mbowa, Ibrahim Kibumba, Shafik Kagimu, Jimmy Kulaba and Brian Majwega scored URA’s spotkicks.
The tax collectors will face Tanzanian premier league side Azam in the final this Saturday at the Amaani stadium in Zanzibar.
Azam defeated Singida United 1-0 with a late goal from shabaan Idd.
It will be a replay of two sides who met in the group stages in which URA won 1-0.
URA and KCCA FC are the only Ugandan sides to have won the tournament.

2018 Mapinduzi Cup final
January 13, 2018
URA FC Vs Azam FC
Amaani stadium, 8pm

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New Angola president sacks Dos Santos son as head of sovereign wealth fund

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Agencies
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President Joao Lourenço

LUANDA (Reuters)- Angolan President Joao Lourenço removed the son of his long-serving predecessor Jose Eduardo dos Santos as head of the country’s $5 billion sovereign wealth fund on Wednesday, the latest in a series of moves that sidelined dos Santos allies.
Lourenço, who took office in September when dos Santos stepped down after nearly four decades in power, has swiftly wrested control of key areas of the state by pushing aside powerful figures associated with his predecessor.
He announced on Wednesday that he was replacing the board of the fund, including its head Jose Filomeno dos Santos, after an external inquiry into the fund’s performance and governance.

The new board chairman was named as Carlos Alberto Lopes, a former finance minister.
Last month Lourenço dismissed the former president’s daughter Isabel dos Santos as chairwoman of the state oil company Sonangol, replacing her with Carlos Saturnino, an oil industry veteran.
Lourenço has also appointed allies and former prime ministers Lopo Fortunato Ferreira do Nascimento and José Carlos Marcolino Moco as non-executive directors of Sonangol, further solidifying his power within the company.
Oil accounts for a third of Angola’s gross domestic product and more than 95 percent of its exports, according to the World Bank, making the leadership of Sonangol one of the most important and powerful jobs in the southwest African country.

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Apass and Geosteady in catfight

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Badru Kasadah
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IN FIGHTING MOOD: Musician Apass

Singer Apass without a doubt seems to be in the right shape for a fight, if we are to go by his most recent post on social media.

STANDS WARNED: Musician Geosteady

And he has already named his opponent. According to his message, he would like to have Geosteady as the first victim this year.

“Geosteady Blackman you can’t ask to battle me, I can’t battle with a small fat little man. You are not on my level go and battle with Barbie J not me nze ngyakutagula tagula little man,” Apass warned.

“The people you need to battle are those who can’t read and write plus those who don’t know English, not me. By the way little Geo, who tricked you into thinking onsobola … wedeko mukwano I am warning you viola aka Geosteady Shortman.”

But in a space of hours, Geosteady had already responded, saying he was tired of entertaining Apass’ fans and it was high time the dancehall singer released new songs.

“My brother I know you make a lot of practice Home paka mukiyungu but now this level is for only people with Microphones in public. Okwogera enyo sikuyimba bambi; Baby Teacher Wakikyenga. I have helped u a lot entertaining your fans. I’m gonna stop Mr nkuyambye ekimala. Since you know posting and tweeting drop your concert online hahaha Bambi.”

Anyway, fans will keep asking: “who is a better singer between the two?”

 

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Health ministry in failed efforts to scuttle ‘patient rights bill’

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Priscilla Alma
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SPIRITED EFFORTS AGAINST PATIENT RIGHTS BILL: State-Minister-for-Health-Sarah-Opendi.

Attempts by Paul Akamba, the Busiki County MP, to introduce a private member’s Bill entitled Patients’ Rights and Responsibility Bill 2017 has been met with stiff resistance from the Ministry of Health, after the State Minister of General Duties Sarah Opendi warned that passing the Bill will create problems for Uganda’s health sector.

While seeking leave of Parliament to table a private member’s bill, Akamba said that it will be critical at ensuring that guidelines in the Patient’s Charter are legally-binding.

Akamba also added that the Bill will go a long way in improving health financing, as well as protect patients’ rights, including seeking and receiving health care advisories.

“Health workers are trained on how to deal with patients and yet patients are not taught their rights anywhere, so it’s the health workers supposed to conduct themselves in an ethical way. For instance, if a health worker asks you why you got pregnant, that is not ethical and it’s not expected of them. It’s important for them to act with tolerance and to listen to the patients,” Akamba said.

Andrew Kaluya, the Kigulu South MP, seconded the motion, noting that the Bill will help save households from catastrophic expenditures and curb the patients’ rights violations.

“This practice of detaining patients for non-payment of Bills is an infringement of human rights. It is so common that many citizens wrongly believe that hospitals have the right to do so. The practice increases medical impoverishment,” Kuluya said.

However, Opendi opposed the move by Parliament to grant Akamba leave, warning it would have serious implications on health care service delivery.

“He (Akamba) has various serious implications if we moved with this Bill. I haven’t had a chance to look at what the Bill entails. In this country, Primary Health care is free, however tertiary care isn’t free,”

Opendi said.

She added: “The Bill will have serious financial implications, which Ministry of Finance will speak to. When you move with this Bill, then we will need to have another Bill entitled the health workers’ Bill. It is going to create some bit of problem in the sector. We have clients charter is quite sufficient, we aren’t comfortable with this motion.”

 

She also informed Parliament that Government is in final stages of tabling the National Health Insurance Bill that will take care of all Akamba’s concerns.

However, when David Bahati, State Minister for Planning, was non- committal about the impact the Bill will have on the Consolidated Fund.

“The only way we can raise the issue is going to increase the charge on the consolidated fund is when we have the Bill. At this time, if a member can work closely with Ministry of Health, so that issues are incorporated before the Bill is tabled, because we haven’t seen any issues in charge of the consolidated fund,” Bahati said.

After Opendi failed to convince the August House, Deputy Speaker Jacob Oulanyah informed the House that Parliament had no right to stop debate on the motion since it didn’t contravene any sections of the Constitution and has no impact on the Consolidated Fund.

But without even bothering to debate the motion, the MPs voted unanimously to grant Akamba leave to table the Bill.

 

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Chinese contractor on spot over Entebbe Airport renovations

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Priscilla Alma
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Renovation works at the Entebbe International Airport

China Communications Construction Company (CCCC) that is undertaking Shs713 billion renovations at Entebbe International Airport is in trouble for failure to respect rights of people with disabilities at the site.

This followed a complaint raised by Rose Mutonyi, Bubulo West MP, over what she alleged was a humiliating treatment of one user of the national airport.

Mutonyi narrated of an incidence that took place on Tuesday, January 9, 2018, when one white passenger was forced to shout on top of his voice, demanding for a carrier to carry his luggage because of the disruptions in the renovations.

“Are we going to have that type of treatment for the old and disabled? It is happening to our people every day. Something needs to be done otherwise, nothing is going to talk for them,” Mutonyi said.

Her counterpart, Mbale Municipality MP Wamai Wamanga, warned that failure by government to address the concerns will render its efforts to attract tourists to Uganda.

“We are trying to convince people to come here, but if that person goes back and narrates of his ordeal, then such a thing can do minus,” Mr. Wamanga said.

Ruth Nankabirwa, the Government Chief Whip defended the Executive, arguing that sometimes such conveniences are inevitable when any site is undergoing any form of renovations.

“I want to assure the country that this will stop because the project has a timeframe, but this doesn’t mean we will not check. Will ensure Minister is on ground because Entebbe is our eye and ensure our people aren’t inconvenienced,” Nankabirwa said.

However, William Nzoghu, the Shadow Works Minister, wondered if there aren’t any other measures that can be undertaken to help people in the meantime.

“We have been to other airports and you still have a service that is descent, why isn’t it applicable to Ugandan situation?” Nzoghu wondered.

Hellen Asamo, the Persons With Disabilities Representative Eastern Region, joined the debate saying that services for the people with disability are offered selectively.

“There is critical need for people in Uganda to wake up. I think it is an issue of negligence not renovation,” Asamo argued, prompting Nankabirwa to respond by saying the inconveniences are temporary.

However, Deputy Speaker Jacob Oulanyah said there was no need for Parliament to go forth and back with the matter because when contractors are handed sites, they have to ensure alternatives are created.

“It is the responsibility of the contractor to ensure the convenient ways are in existence. It is a matter that doesn’t need to be debated. Why are they making people suffer like that?” Oulanyah asked.

It should be recalled that renovations on Entebbe Airport started in May 2017 and the project is estimated to cost over US$ 200 million, approximately Shs713b.

The scope of works will involve construction of a new cargo terminal and strengthening the runway.

 

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Final Cranes CHAN squad named

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Our Reporter
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CHAN-Final-Squad-2018

The final Uganda Cranes squad for this year’s CHAN Finals has been named by Head coach Sebastien Desabre.

After two build up matches, a draw with Guinea (1-1) and a 1-0 loss to Congo, the Frenchman was in position to check on the players who were in camp and come up with the final 23-man list.

Tom Masiko and Mustapha Kizza are the two players dropped and will return home from camp where they have been with the team in Rabat since last Thursday.

The team will remain in Rabat before moving to Marrakech where group B matches will be played.

Cranes are in the Group B alongside Ivory Coast, Namibia and Zambia. They open their campaign against Zambia’s Chipolopolo on January 14.

The competition will be hosted in Morocco from January 12 to February 4.

 

Final Squad:

Goalkeepers: Isma Watenga, Benjamin Ochan and Saidi Keni.

Defenders: Nico Wadada, Joseph Nsubuga, Timothy Awany, Mustapha Mujuzi, Bernard Muwanga, Isaac Muleme and Aggrey Madoi.

Midfielders: Milton Karisa, Paul Mucureezi, Allan Kyambadde, Seif Batte, Rahmat Senfuka, Taddeo Lwanga, Abubaker Kasule, Moses Waisswa, Saddam Juma and Muzamil Mutyaba.

Strikers: Shaban Muhammad, Derrick Nsibambi and Nelson Senkatuka.

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Bebe Cool in yet another international collabo

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Badru Kasadah
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Its a Jamaica, Miami and Uganda connection which has all the ingredients that one needs to make a hit record like ‘Your Love’ club remix.

Honorebel and Charly Black from Jamaica, Pitbull from Miami via Cuba, Bebe Cool and Herbert Skillz from Uganda, pretty much makes this record a Global and International club banger.

Easily the most unclassifiable artiste, Honorebel returns with his latest  hit ‘Your Love’ club remix featuring Charly Black, Pitbull and Bebe Cool and produced by Herbert Skillz.

The new single and remix is a great depiction of his journey as an international, crossover musician.

This latest release of Honorebel’s “Your Love” club remix is filled with culture and experience ranging widely from different influences. Throughout his career, Honorebel has never been categorized into one genre.  He effortlessly fuses Reggae, Pop, EDM, Dancehall, Reggae-ton, Moombahton and other influential sounds to create his universal appeal and one of the most unique sounds in modern music.

In 2010, Honorebel’s ‘Now You See It’ featuring Pitbull peaked #22 on Billboard Hot 100 and peaked #36 on Billboard Hot 200 Dance Charts, #1 in 48 different countries and thus far he has over 100 million you-tubes views to this date.

In 2017 Honorebel Peaked #15 on the Latin Billboard charts with the reggae-ton hit  “Mari” remix with Farina and El Micha which has over 9 million youtube views. About his new single “Your Love” and the club remix,  its Producer by Dj Codeman and Herbert Skillz, two super producer who are signed by Honorebel’s Phantom Music Group Record Label.

Asked to comment on the hit single remix, Honorebel had this to say: “I feel like music is a feelings and a vibes, so I go where ever that vibes and feelings takes me. I think Charly Black gave it that authentic, organic dancehall feelings, and both of our futuristic lyrical flavor and flow gave the song a nice blend, Pitbull gave it the International brand and Bebe Cool stamp it with that real African Dancehall sound which took the remix to another level.”

 

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