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World gets ‘new oldest person’

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NEW OLDEST PERSON: 117-year old Jamaican Violet Brown

A 117-year-old Jamaican woman has now claimed the title of the oldest living person after the death of Emma Morano over the weekend.

Ms Morano, from Italy, was the oldest human in the world when she died, also aged 117, on Saturday.

And, according to Gerontology Research Group, her place has been taken by Violet Brown from Jamaica.

Jamaica’s Prime Minister, Andrew Holness, tweeted a congratulatory message to Ms Brown, who turned 117 last month.

He wrote: “The world’s oldest human is Jamaican Violet Brown, who was born on March 10, 1900. Congrats Violet.”

DECEASED: Former ‘Oldest Person’ Emma Morano who died at the weekend blows a cake for her 117th Birthday

Before her death, Emma Morano, who was born on November 29, 1899, was the last surviving person to be born in the 1800s.

She put her longevity down to genetics – her mother lived to 91 and several sisters lived to 100 – and being single after choosing to kick out her abusive husband in 1938.

Ms Morano also said her health was due to eating three eggs a day – two of them raw – which she started doing after being diagnosed with anaemia shortly after the First World War.

She died on Saturday in her home in the city of Verbania, northern Italy, according to local media.

After Violet Brown, the second third oldest people are Japanese women, Nabi Tajima and Chiyo Miyako, who were born in 1900 and 1901.

 

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South Africa’s PJ Powers to perform in Uganda

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Badru Kasadah
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TO PERFORM HERE: Legendary South African musician Penelope Jane Dunlop, popularly known as PJ Powers, addresses fans.

Legendary South African musician Penelope Jane Dunlop, popularly known as PJ Powers, will be performing in Uganda in June this year.

We can authoritatively write, that the ‘Jabulani’ hit maker will be performing in Kampala at a charity event organised by Girls Up Uganda, an NGO.

Addressing journalists at Sheraton Hotel in Kampala today, PJ Powers said she accepted to grace the Girl Up Uganda event because she had been touched by its founder’s story.

“I am not going to be paid for this but I was so touched by Monica’s (founder Girl Up) story. How a person like her would rise from the slums to one of the best universities in the world and now back to helping other girls. When she reached me, I welcomed the idea of being part of the event because this is one of the ways I could give back to the people of Uganda,” she said.

She added: “Reflecting on an amusing memory from a previous trip to Uganda, I love this country! It’s about 14 years since I was here. I really loved the country and Ugandans have always been loyal to me. Not that the rest of Africans don’t love me, they do but in all countries I have been to, Ugandans were most loyal to me. They helped my music career and this the best way I can give back.”

PJ’s first musical group was an all-girl band called Pantha. About a year later she joined Jimslip which in time became the famous ‘Hotline’. Hotline disbanded in 1987, after which PJ Powers pursued a solo career.

The year 1988 saw PJ banned from radio and TV for a year by the apartheid government for her performance at a charity concert for war orphans in Zimbabwe, together with Miriam Makeba and Harry Belafonte.

She was encouraged to continue her singing by Nelson Mandela, who sent her an encouraging letter from Victor Verster Prison in Cape Town.

In 1995, her recording of the Rugby World Cup official song featuring Ladysmith Black Mambazo, ‘World in Union’, reached no. 47 on the UK Singles Chart. She performed the song live at the opening of the 1995 Rugby World Cup in Cape Town for a worldwide television audience.

In the ’90s, her music took on a more Afro-pop focus, finding a receptive audience in the black market, who gave her the nickname, “Thandeka” — “the loved one”.

Some of her biggest hits include; Feel So Strong, You’re So Good to Me, There is an Answer, Home to Africa and Jabulani.

Her show in Uganda is slated for June 30, at Serena Conference center.

 

 

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UK to hold ‘snap’ elections in June over Brexit quagmire

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Theresa May makes the shock announcement from Downing Street on Tuesday (PA)

UK Prime Minister Theresa May has called a snap general election on June 8, claiming that divisions at Westminster risked hampering the Brexit negotiations.

The Prime Minister will require the support of two-thirds of MPs to go to the country, with a vote scheduled in the Commons tomorrow.

The move stunned Westminster, as Mrs May and Number 10 have repeatedly insisted she would not seek a general election before the scheduled 2020 poll.

But Mrs May, who has a fragile working majority of just 17 in the Commons, said she wanted ‘unity’ at Westminster as talks on Brexit begin in earnest with the European Union.

She said: ‘We want a deep and special partnership between a strong and successful European Union and a United Kingdom that is free to chart its own way in the world.

‘That means we will regain control of our own money, our own laws and our own borders and we will be free to strike trade deals with old friends and new partners all around the world.

‘This is the right approach, and it is in the national interest. But the other political parties oppose it.

‘At this moment of enormous national significance there should be unity here in Westminster, but instead there is division. The country is coming together, but Westminster is not.’

She acknowledged that she needed a stronger position in the Commons to secure her plans for the UK’s future outside the EU.

 

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Ugandan philantropist rejuvenates hope for young heart patients

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Badru Kasadah
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Ugandan philanthropist and celebrated fashionista Monica Agoa Akiiki, (right) visits a patient in Mulago Hospital during her previous visit to the country.

Ugandan philanthropist and celebrated fashionista Monica Agoa Akiiki, the founder of the Keith Heart Foundation, has launched yet another campaign to save children with heart ailments.

Based in the UK, Monica Akiiki has been helping children with heart problems for four years now, and says she is back in the country to create awareness about the disease as well as raise funds for the organization.

She is to start with a car washing campaign at Panamera Bar and Restaurant, with the proceeds going towards helping children with heart-related illnesses, to help them access surgeries in India UK and Germany.

Monica Akiiki, who partners with institutions in UK and Uganda to provide medical expertise, will thereafter visit Mulago hospital and extend a helping hand like she has always done in the past years.

The Keith Heart Foundation works to improve the quality of care and information availed to families of children with heart conditions, especially those who cannot effort the costly treatment.

 

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DP to join anti-SIM card registration activists

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Hussein Musisi
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DP President Norbert Mao

The Democratic Party (DP) is set to join citizens who plan to lodge a case against the seven-day ultimatum for SIM card registration, announced by the Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) last week.

“All people who registered for the national IDs gave in their details including contacts, why does UCC give us these seven days; there are some other forms of identification rather than national identity cards like pass ports and driving licence, and I denounce that UCC directive,” DP President General Norbert Mao said during a press conference today.

Already, controversial activist Norman Tumuhimbise, previously linked to the dropping of ‘yellow piglets’ at Parliament to protest against youth joblessness, has lodged an injunction in court, seeking to stop the UCC from enforcing the SIM card registration.

‘An interim order doth issue restraining the Respondent, and the telecommunications service providers the Respondent regulates, from enforcing or implementing the directive of SIM CARD subscriber details update/verification by Thursday 20/04/2017 or recognizing the National Identity Card as the sole document of identity until the final determination of the main application for a temporary injunction,’ a communication from the High Court Civil Division indicates.

Meanwhile, according to Mao, the DP is also planning to honour its founding President General Benedicto Kiwanuka by constructing a Shs7 billion building and naming it after him.

Making the announcement, Mao said the move to build Ben Kiwanuka House is part of the party’s 2016-2021 strategic plan. Ben Kiwanuka, the first DP President General, was killed by former president Idi Amin in 1971.

“We already have Shs250 million in cash and pledges among members and people of good will,” Mao said, adding: “thinking is not our problem in DP and we have never lacked ideas, the only challenge we face is team work.”

Mao also said the party would soon declare it audited accounts.

“DP accounts are audited by the Office of the Auditor General and soon our financial report will be out. This is contrary to what used to happen before since I never found such arrangement in DP,” he said.

 

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‘Pigs’ activist Tumuhimbise sues UCC over SIM card registration

By
Francisco Adongo
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INJUNCTION: The court communication to UCC

Norman Tumuhimbise, the man allegedly behind the dropping of ‘yellow piglets’ at Parliament is at it again; he has sued the Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) seeking to stop the telecommunications regulator from enforcing the de-activation of SIM cards.

An announcement declaring Norman Tumuhimbise as a ‘missing person’

‘An interim order doth issue restraining the Respondent, and the telecommunications service providers the Respondent regulates, from enforcing or implementing the directive of SIM CARD subscriber details update/verification by Thursday 20/04/2017 or recognizing the National Identity Card as the sole document of identity until the final determination of the main application for a temporary injunction,’ a communication from the High Court Civil Division indicates.

Tumuhimbise, who has sued UCC jointly with Rights Trumpet Limited, is no stranger to controversy and first came to the limelight in 2015 when he led a shadowy umbrella group, the Jobless Brotherhood, to drop piglets coloured in yellow, the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) colour, at Parliament.

At the time the group’s actions were informed by their lack of jobs. Then in 2016 the Jobless Brotherhood took on Parliamentarians, criticizing the insistence of MPs to acquire state-of-the-art cars at a cost of Shs200m each.

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Katikiro renews calls for land title registration in Buganda

By
Geoffery Serugo
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Katikiro Charles Peter Mayiga

The Katikiro Charles Peter Mayiga has launched a campaign aimed at issuing land titles to all Buganda Kingdom tenants at a discount of 20%.

According to Katikiro Mayiga, the move to be executed in six months follows a directive issued by Kabaka Ronald Muwenda Mutebi, as a means of further bridging his relationship with tenants. He said prioritization will be given to those whose land has already been surveyed by the Buganda Land Board (BLB).

“Over 130,000 plots so far have been surveyed by Buganda Land Board and these are due for titling. Ownership of a kibanja does not give one leeway to extend his occupancy beyond agreed boundaries,” Katikiro Mayiga told journalists at the seat of the Kingdom in Bulange, Mengo.

He added: “Through this process, we will secure tenancy of occupants and eliminate probability of eviction.”

Over the years, Buganda has experienced land disputes, the most recent and pronounced one being between musician Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine and the Buganda Land Board following the demolition of the singer’s Busabala Beach parking yard.

Meanwhile, the Katikiro also advised those planning to pay to BLB to do so electronically in a bid to avoid inconveniences that might arise out of queuing.

 

 

 

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Museveni aide Rwakakamba resigns

By
Francisco Adongo
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I AM OUT: The resignation letter by Morrison Rwakakamba.

Morrison Rwakakamba, the head of the Government Citizen Interaction Centre (GCIC) in the Ministry of ICT and National Guidance, has resigned.

RESIGNED: Mr Morrison Rwakakamba, the outgoing Director of the Government Citizen Interaction Centre (GCIC)

In a letter dated April 18 addressed to President Yoweri Museveni, the youthful Special Presidential Assistant on Research and Information indicated he had decided to join the private sector.

‘I have made a decision to rejoin non-State sector and focus on agricultural production, public policy inquiry and international public interest consulting’, wrote Rwakakamba, who joined the Public Service in 2013.

Rwakakamba, one of the few public servants in Uganda to resign, copied his resignation letter to the Secretary Office of the President, the Auditor General and Secretary Public Service Commission.

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Oulanyah rallies African Americans to restore ties with Africa

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Our Reporter
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RESET TIES WITH AFRICA: Deputy Speaker Jacob Oulanyah addresses delegates at the Reset America Reset Africa Conference in St. Louis Illinois, US, on April 14 2017.

The Rt. Hon. Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Jacob Oulanyah, has tasked African Americans to re-evaluate their links with the continent and restore the hopes of those in need.

In his address to delegates at the Reset America Reset Africa Conference in St. Louis Illinois, US, on April 14 2017, Oulanyah reaffirmed the need for nations to repair the old bridges of cooperation damaged by policies and wars.

“We come here as bridge builders. We need to repair the old bridges of humanity damaged through policies and state relationships. We need to change our attitude and give hope to those in need,” he told the delegates.

The Speaker noted that although States had built walls to separate people, the blood that joins humanity has always prevailed to bring peace. He attributed wars and conflicts to the absence of hope for the marginalized.

Oulanyah rallied the local communities in St. Louis to consider investment in Africa.

“Uganda is one of the blessed countries in the world. It’s the source of the Nile but also provides innumerable opportunities for investment,” he added.

In a separate meeting with Emeka Jackson Hicks, Oulanyah noted the need for technical expertise to enable Kampala city adopt a community based approach to development.

The Parliament delegation that included MPs Jacob Oboth Oboth (West Budama County South), Fred Mwesigye (Nyabushozi County), Abiriga Abdallah (Arua Municipality), Macho Geoffrey (Busia Municipality) and Aisha Ssekindi (Kalungu) also explored opportunities for cooperation with St. Elizabeth Hospital and Harris Stowe University.

 

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Don Jazzy, ‘Dorobucci’ Group to perform in Uganda

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Badru Kasadah
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HEADE FOR UGANDA: Nigerian music promoter Don Jazzy

‘Dorobucci’ took us to the dance-floor, ‘Adaobi’ gave us some really good vibes, ‘Looku Looku’ shut those haters up for us and now the Mavin’s crew, which comprises of Tiwa Savage, Dr Sid, D Prince, Korede Bello, Reekado Banks, Dija and the big boss himself Don Jazzy will be performing in Uganda this year.

According to our sources, Nigeria’s biggest music group will perform at the Lugogo Cricket Oval, but the date and entry fees are yet to be revealed.

Of the members of the group, only Tiwa Savage has ever performed in Uganda, having graced the Women’s Day celebrations of 2015.

It ought to be remembered that another Mavin Records signed artiste, Iyanya will also be performing in Kampala this year.

We will keep you updated as more details drop in.

 

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