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Wizkid, Sauti Sol added to MTV Awards’ performers

By
Badru Kasadah
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WON BIG: Wizkid

Lighting up the MAMA stage on October 22 with dazzling live performances will be Nigerian AfroBeat giant Wizkid, Angolan “Kizomba” icon C4 Pedro, Kenyan AfroPop supergroup Sauti Sol, and legendary South African “House” DJ and producer, DJ Maphorisa – as they all head to Johannesburg to perform at MTV Africa Music Awards Johannesburg 2016.

The MTV Africa Music Awards Johannesburg 2016 will broadcast live from the Ticketpro Dome, Johannesburg on MTV and MTV Base from 21:00 CAT on 22 October (live Red Carpet show will be streamed on www.mtvbase.com from 18:30 CAT).

Fresh from his recent collaboration with Drake, Wizkid is this year’s most nominated MAMA artiste, with an incredible six nominations, including two nods for Song of the Year, plus the prestigious Artiste of the Year, Best Male and Personality of the Year.  East coast foursome Sauti Sol is not far behind with an amazing four nominations including Best Group, Artiste of the Year, Song of the Year and Best Collaboration (for “Unconditionally Bae” featuring Alikiba).

C4 Pedro is going head-to-head against the continent’s best Portuguese-speaking artists in the Best Lusophone category, where he is pitched against fellow countrymen NGA and Preto Show, alongside Mozambique’s Lizha James and Nelson Frietas (Cape Verde).  Uhuru alumnus DJ Maphorisa, who has been hitting the headlines recently for his co-production credit on Drake’s “One Dance”, is back in the spotlight for his solo achievements at this year’s awards, notching up two nominations, for Song of the Year and Best Collaboration, for “Soweto Baby”, featuring Wizkid.

Wizkid, DJ Maphorisa, C4 Pedro and Sauti Sol join previously announced African performers Diamond, Emtee, Future, Kwesta, Patoranking Alikiba, Babes Wodumo, Cassper Nyovest, Nasty C, Ycee and Yemi Alade for the uplifting telecast, broadcasting live from the Ticketpro Dome, Johannesburg.

Highlighting the “gold standard” in contemporary music, creativity and achievement, The MTV Africa Music Awards Johannesburg 2016 promises to be the biggest and best ever, with music lovers partying up a storm at the Ticketpro Dome for this spectacular showcase.
The definitive annual celebration of African and international talent and achievement, MAMA 2016 recognises and rewards musicians and achievers who have made the most impact on African music and youth culture over the previous year. The ceremony will feature stunning performances from African and international artists along with the show’s signature cross-genre and cross-border collaborations.

 

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It might just be better to let Besigye move around!

By
Julius Mwesigye
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In as many weeks as the memory can recall, yesterday opposition presidential candidate Dr Warren Kizza Besigye beat police surveillance at his home in Kasangati and attended Sunday service at All Saints Church, Nakasero, and later attended a burial in Namutumba, several kilometres outside Kampala.

Now, this Besigye saga of beating security surveillance is not a new issue; it started over 10 years ago when he managed to elude a round-the-clock watch at his home in Luzira, only to turn up in South Africa.

But back to his latest escapades; the headline ‘Besigye beats police surveillance again’ has now lost the pull power in newsrooms since almost all editors have used it to wear and tear levels.

That noted, there have been varied public opinions as to whether the type of security accorded to Dr Besigye is justified. One school of thought seems to suggest that the numbers of security personnel deployed around him seem to be more than what is needed. Intriguingly too, they argue that when Besigye moves around unrestrained, the crowds around him seem to be manageable as most people just want to have a glimpse of him and then go about their own work, that involves fending for the next meal. In other words they say the police has helped boost Besigye’s political profile!

Then there is a group, among them some security officials and businesspeople in the Central Business District (CBD), who argue that for the sake of peace Besigye should be restrained. Indeed, for the businesspeople, they argue that he disrupts their activities, which is also understandable.

However, in the face of the two suppositions, a common ground that favours both groups should be sought, and that might involve the police allowing Besigye to move freely, while at the same time according him reasonable escort that fits the status of a national politician.

Perhaps, if that is done, Besigye’s crowds will no longer see reason to become chaotic, and in the process the country will bring to an end an episode that has usually left the police with egg on its face.

 

 

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Return as an ordinary citizen, Kiir tells Machar

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Agencies
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HAPPIER TIMES? President Salva Kiir (in hat) with former First Vice President Riek Machar Teny

South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit has told his rival Riek Machar to return home as an ordinary citizen or remain outside the troubled country during the period of the transitional government of national unity.

Kiir also emphasized that Machar will only be allowed back if he denounces violence and allows the coalition government to implement the 2015 peace agreement.

The South Sudanese leader was speaking at an occasion he hosted at his residence, attended by senior cabinet members, security and high-ranking military officers, a few days after rumour spread that the president had ‘died’.

Machar left Juba after renewed clashes in July between his forces and those of President Kiir claimed over 300 lives and led to the fighters loyal to the former rebel leader fleeing the city. The fighting has resulted in a humanitarian crisis with people abandoning the city for fear of a return to war.

President Kiir relieved Machar of his post as vice president and appointed the armed opposition’s former chief negotiator, Taban Deng Gai as first vice president in the interim government. Machar has, however, described Gai’s appointment as ‘illegal’.

The armed opposition group recently announced that it had officially dismissed all its senior members who have taken part in President Kiir’s new government.

This came in a resolution passed by the political bureau meeting convened for three days in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, under the chairmanship of Machar.

In Article 2 (d) of the resolution, the armed opposition’s political bureau resolved to “call for reorganization of the SPLA (IO) so that it can wage a popular armed resistance against the authoritarian and fascist regime of President Salva Kiir in order to bring peace, freedom, democracy and the rule of law in the country.”

The opposition group called for rapid deployment of regional forces in order to salvage the peace agreement signed in August 2015.

Meanwhile, the government of South Sudan has said it was working with foreign powers to find a country where the armed opposition leader, Riek Machar, should stay in exile without involving in political activities and affairs of the country.

Information Minister, Michael Makuei Lueth, said the government has slapped a political ban on the rebel chief, Riek Machar, following his call for armed resistance against President Kiir.

“He is being exiled. He will not be coming back to South Sudan and he will never be allowed to talk politics any longer,” Lueth told the media.

 

 

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Uganda born Danny Faure sworn in as new president of Seychelles

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Agencies
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The then Vice President of Seychelles, Danny Faure addresses the 68th United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York, September 27, 2013. He has been sworn in today Sunday October 16, as the new President.

Danny Faure has been sworn in as the new president of Seychelles on Sunday, after thousands marched through the capital of the East African island nation to support him after the previous president resigned.

Former vice-president Faure, 54, will complete the five-year term of outgoing President James Michel, who announced his resignation last month amid growing public frustration over economic inequality.

Michel gave no reason for his resignation, but it followed parliamentary elections where the opposition coalition Linyon Demokratik (LDS) took control of the legislature from the ruling People’s Progressive Front, called Parti Lepep, for the first time in the country’s history.

Faure, a former finance minister in the Seychelles, is a governor of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and the African Development Bank, a statement from State House said.

As a minister, he oversaw the implementation of the first generation of International Monetary Fund-led reforms under the macro economic reform program, which started in October 2008.He continues to direct the second generation of IMF reforms.

“Mr. Faure has been my vice president since July 2010. Together we have won two elections. He has experience in government, after serving in various capacities, including working with the youth, and as a minister in the key portfolios of education and finance,” Michel told the media ahead of the inauguration.

Born to Seychellois parents in Uganda, Faure went to university in Cuba where he graduated with a degree in political science. He has four children and divorced his wife earlier this week, a statement from State House said. Uganda has also contributed to the legal manpower of the Seychelles with a number of senior judicial officers.

He succeeds Michel in line with the Seychelles constitution, which also limits Faure to another single term if he runs again.

The tiny nation of 115 islands and 93,000 people mostly relies on tourism for revenues. Recently it has tried to promote itself as a financial services hub by offering a low-tax environment for companies registered on its territory.

 

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Last king of Rwanda, Uwami Kigeli dead

By
Isaiah Mwebaze
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Uwami Ndahindurwa V Kigeli, will be buried Sunday.

The last king of Rwanda, Uwami Jean Baptiste Ndahindurwa Kigeli is dead.

Uwami Kigeli as he is popularly known among his subject has been leaving the US state of Virginia ever since left his throne.

Described as a king without a throne, Umami Kigeli only ruled his kingdom (Rwanda) for just nine months before fleeing a revolt and has spent the last half century in exile, powerless to stop the violence that ripped through his country.

He died aged 79 and living on public assistance in Virginia, Uwami Kigeli has been yearning to return to the throne but had no support of his subjects. He was dethroned in 1961.

In 1996, two year after genocide. Paul Kagame, then Vice President welcomed Uwami Kigeli back home but not as king. Kigeli said that was for the people to decide. He was a popular figure among his subjects and hence posed a threat to the ruling political class back in Kigali.

 

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BREAKING: Observer ransacked, all computers stolen

By
Shawn Davis Kawalya
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Mr Richard Kavuma, Observer Editor.

Offices of the Observer newspaper have been broken into and all the computer taken.

The crescent road based tri-weekly newspaper has been swept clean by unknown people. However, preliminary investigations show that it could have been an in house job by the guard on duty last night.

One of the top editors confirmed to EagleOnline “Swept the newsrooms clean of computers. So stressful. The police is on it, but the security guard was involved”

An employee with the paper whom we can’t name because he lacks authority to speak on behalf of the paper write on his Facebook wall “Sad news of a night break-in at my workplace @observerug I understand all the newsroom computers were taken. The security guard abandoned his gun, he can’t be traced”

However, despite the guard leaving the gun behind and  running away, it isn’t evident that he is the one who broke into as this incident has occurred before with other newsrooms before.

 

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Former Premier Mbabazi cited in Crane Bank woes

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Our Reporter
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SOLD: The former Crane Bank headquarters on Kampala Road.

Former Prime Minister John Patrick Amama Mbabazi, a majority shareholder in the defunct National Bank of Commerce, and other shareholders, are reportedly behind negative publicity Crane Bank is facing.

EagleOnline has learnt from sources in the banking sector and Ugandan intelligence that Mbabazi and his NBC colleagues are bitter with Crane Bank boss Sudhir Ruparelia, for buying off their bank hardly an hour after closure about four years ago.

In September 2012, Bank of Uganda took over the operations of NBC and in its closure directive, the central bank wrote: “In exercise of its powers under Section 88(1)(a) and (b) of the Financial Institutions Act 2004, Bank of Uganda has effective today September 27, 2012 taken over the management of National Bank of Commerce,” reads the notice which was signed by Deputy Governor Louis  Kasekende. The BOU notice added: “The management and board of directors of National Bank of Commerce are hereby suspended.”

However, sources said that hardly an hour after the closure, Crane Bank management was ushered and took over the operations of the bank.

The sources further said that whereas Sudhir managed to takeover the operations of the bank and the accounts of the customers at the time, little did he know that the former shareholders weren’t happy about his immediate takeover.

“Some have in process hit back at him with the latest negative publicity whose aim is to make customers run away from the bank,” the sources told EagleOnline.

“We have picked clues that it is about the way NBC was closed and hurriedly taken over by Crane Bank and the second lead relates to politics; there are some individuals who think that Sudhir could have bailed out President Yoweri Museveni with money from his bank during campaigns and so these are trying to spoil business,” the sources say, referring to a brief about the ongoing negative publicity about Crane Bank that was reportedly prepared by Economic Monitoring Desk in the Office of the President.

Efforts to contact Mr Mbabazi were fruitless by press time.

At one time the NBC was reportedly sold to a group of wealthy Arabs at US$ 16 million but details of the subsequent transactions remain a highly-guarded secret.

Established in 1993, the National Bank of Commerce (NBC) enjoyed the shareholding of prominent Ugandans like retired Justice George William Kanyeihamba, Bank of Uganda Governor Prof Emmanuel Mutebile, Prof Mondo Kagonyera and Dr Ezra Suruma among many other personalities from the greater Kigezi region.

 

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Katsha pays Shs12m to Guvnor, lines up Bebe Cool for ‘big do’

By
Badru Kasadah
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CLEARED FOR 'BIG DO": South African-based Ugandan businessman Shafiq Katumba

South Africa-based Ugandan businessman Shafiq Katumba, popularly known as Katsha, has paid Club Guvnor in advance for his December party.

A source has revealed that a sum of over Shs12million was paid to the industrial area-located night spot yesterday by Katsha’s confidant in Uganda.

The money was paid as a booking for his annual ‘Money & Gold’ party, slated for December 23.

We have been informed by the source that among the artistes that Katsha has lined up for this year’s party is Gagmel boss Bebe Cool and the Afrigo Band of Moses Matovu.

He also intends to fly in a surprise artiste, the source added.

 

 

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Sizzaman hits at Chameloene’s brother and Bigeye in new song

By
Badru Kasadah
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GABABUGUMYE: Singer Andrew Kayemba aka Sizzaman

‘Gababugumye’ is a luganda word loosely translated to mean ‘being on the hot seat’. The song rose to fame recently when musician Jose Chameleone used it while attacking his older brother Humphrey Mayanja, following his comments on the arrest of Team No Sleep manager, Jeff Kiwa.

Jose Chameleone's older brother Humphrey Mayanja
Jose Chameleone’s older brother Humphrey Mayanja

Also, Don Zella, an ex-fiance to singer Bigeye, reiterated the same to refer to her former boyfriend, who she thought was in a tight situation.

AT EASE WITH SELF: Don Zella
AT EASE WITH SELF: Don Zella

Well, self-declared ‘music dictionary’ Andrew Kayemba aka Sizzaman has hit the studio and recorded a song out of the word. Similar to its previous usage, he uses ‘Gababugumye’ to troll Chameleone’s elder brother Humphrey and Bigeye.

A disc of Sizzaman's audio version of Gababugumye.
A disc of Sizzaman’s audio version of Gababugumye.

The song boasts of a rich lyrical package that he is famously known for; the lyrics are knitted together with humour, adding more fun to a listener.
Music critics believe it’s going to be the next biggest song in clubs. Like many of Sizzaman’s songs, Gababugumye has hard dancehall beats that are at one time fused with beats from Timaya’s monster hit, Sanko.
Meanwhile, the artiste has also released ‘Lusama’, his long-awaited video for the song.

 

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UNEB withdraws centre numbers ahead of UCE exams, cancels previous results

By
Hussein Musisi
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Dan Odong, Executive Secretary of UNEB. Photo credit New Vision.

As O’level candidates prepare for exams beginning Monday, UNEB has withdrawn centre numbers and cancelled some previous results, in the process affecting 1067 former candidates.

The saddening news of the cancellation arrived at after a lengthy investigation by the UNEB security committee, was delivered yesterday by UNEB Secretary Dan Odongo, in the company of acting General Secretary for Secondary Schools James Turyatemba and UNEB Principal Public Relations Officer Hamis Kaheru.

According to Mr Odongo, the affected students were complicit in possessing forbidden materials in an examination room and copying, aided by teachers. He however, added that they were given a fair hearing by the committee.

On his part Turyatemba urged religious leaders to sensitise students against engaging in exam malpractices, giving an example of Emeritus Cardinal Emmanuel Wamala, who he said, had done a lot in cautioning against the vice.

Meanwhile, four of the schools that have been gearing up for the UCE exams, have had the centre numbers withdrawn. The schools; Budinse Memorial School in Bulo, Wakiso Muslim SS in Kakiri, Kazo Hill College of Kawempe and Lake Albert SDA of Kagadi, had been cleared by UNEB and also issued with exam materials like answer booklets.

However, their officials were reportedly shocked to receive the information from journalists that their centre numbers had been withdrawn by the authorities, just less than a week to the UCE exams.

According to the officials, the candidates are being punished for malpractices of either the school authorities or the candidates in the previous UCE exams.

“The communication came in less than a week to exams; it becomes a bit hard for these students to register elsewhere for their exams and the school authorities have no immediate solution on this matter,” one of the school officials said.

But According Mr. Turyatemba said if UNEB fails to find emergency alternative examination centres, the affected students might sit for their exams next year.

He also called for the amendment of the UNEB Act, to pave the way for the stringent punishment of exam offenders including the closure of the schools found culpable.

 

Schools affected by UNEB result cancellation
SCHOOL NUMBER OF STUDENTS
AVE ,MARIA SS KIHUURA -KYENJOJO 88
BOOMA INTERN SCHOOL MBARARA 40
BWIKALA SS KAGADI 93
BUDISE MEMORIAL SCHOOL BULO 55
KISOJO SS -KYENJEJO 91
KAZO HILL COLLEGE – KAWEMPE 59
COMMUNITY COLLEGUE KALISISO 50
LAKE ALBERT SDA -KAGADI 38
LORETOH SS MUKONO 104
MIVULE SS BUKAKATA -MASAKA 44
RIVERSIDE COMP SS MANAFWA 70
SARAH NTIRO H S MAYUGE 70
ST MUGAGA SS KIGANDA-MITYANA 46
ST JOHN HILL SS GGULAMA – MASAKA 46
ST JUDE HS KARIJUMBA – KASESE 44
WAKISO MUSLIM SS -KAKIRI 78
TOTAL 1067
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