Most Valuable Player Jonah Otim and Makerere Basketball Team captain Tonny Drileba, were the stars of the match as Uganda beat Kenya in the Zuku Uganda Basketball League (ZUBL) All Stars game. Showing skillful dribbles and passing, the duo ensured that Uganda gets the edge, winning 73-55, in a match that was disrupted by persistent power outages especially before the start of men’s game at the Lugogo Indoor arena.
Indeed, despite the Kenyans exhibiting good dribbling skills they lacked the shooting accuracy, making MVP Otim latch onto that deficiency to ‘own’ the first quarter.
The incredible partnership of Otim and Drilega in the quarters was central to the eventual Uganda scorecard to the extent that when the two were substituted, the Kenyan team ball possession soared.
“I thank all my colleagues for the win,” Otim said and implored appreciated the organisers to schedule more such games, saying this would make university basketball in the country improve.
ladies game Uganda
In the ladies game Uganda managed to snake past the Kenyans with a narrow margin, after the former beat the latter 71-70 in an exciting match characterized by a display of team spirit.
The Kenyans however, had themselves to blame for narrowly losing the game as stumbles in team coordination cost them the title.
“We fought for the win towards the end which was not good enough. This has though given us a chance to learn most important lessons,” said team captain Mercy Nyambura.
Having lost both titles, the Kenyan teams are set to go back to the drawing board, in preparation for the ZUBL next season.
The fans that came to watch the games got entertainment from one of the Ugandan musicians, Irene Ntale.
Irene Ntale Entertaining funs
Various awards were given out after the match with UCU’s Vilma Achieng named MVP; Sylvia Nakazibwe of Makerere bagging Most Offensive Player, while the award for Most Defensive Player went to Purity Odhiambo of UCU.
In the men’s award, James Okello from Ndejje was named this season’s MVP, Most Offensive Player went to Sedar Segamba from St. Lawrence University, while Most Defensive Player went to Brian Namake.
Friday Results
Vipers 1-0 Express FC
SC Villa 1-1 SC VU
A Uganda Premier League title race that just keeps on giving took another twist on Friday with three rounds to play.
Having held Vipers to a draw last week, SC Victoria returned the race button back to former after holding SC Villa to 1-all draw yesterday.
Midfielder Sadam Juma scored the only goal in the second half as Vipers edged Express FC in Bukiwe to reclaim top-spot on 63 points, two ahead of SC Villa.
“We continue to work hard, three games are many and the pressure that comes with the title race” said Coach Richard Wasswa.
Victoria shocked a packed Nakivubo stadium with an hour played when Dan Nsubuga gave the visitors the briefly before VictorEmaneyo leveled matters six minutes later to salvage a point for Villa
“We must make our game in-hand count, it’s never easy to win a league title and Victoria has proved this” Ibrahim Kiirya (Villa coach) noted.
Villa have a chance to regain top-spot if the League record champions can beat relegation threatened Kira Young on Tuesday, before hosting Vipers next Friday at Nakivubo stadium.
Kira Young 0-1 Lweza
Sadolin 1-0 Entebbe
Police 3-0 Bul
Bright Stars 0-2 Simba
KCC FC 1-0 URA FC
Lweza and Simba picked vital wins as the battle to stay in Uganda Premier League nears with three rounds to play.
Former Cranes international Geoffrey Sserunkuma scored the games’ solitary goal as Lweza edged relegation rivals Kira Young at Namboole, yesterday.
“It’s better than it was two weeks ago, but we can’t spend too much time patting ourselves on the back. We have still got a lot of work left to do” said Hamza Kalanzi, the Lweza coach.
With the win, Lweza moved into 11th place on 30 points two ahead of Kira Young on 28points though the latter has a game in hand.
Moses Bansena’s Simba picked up maximum points with a 2-0 victory away to Bight Stars, as the army side moved a step closer to survival.
Herman Wasswa scored the only goal of the game as outgoing champions KCCA FC edged URA FC 1-0 at Lugogo stadium.
In the other games played, Ben Ocen, Umar Kasumba and Sadat Kyambadde scored as Police saw off Bul FC 3-0, while Sadolin beat Entebbe 1-0 at Bugembe stadium.
Kampala– National Social Security Fund Managing Director Richard Byarugaba has described the passing on of their board chairman as devastating at the time when the pension sector is set to be liberalized.
Speaking to EagleOnline, Byarugaba, who is currently out of the country, said Kyayonka’s death is a blow to the management of NSSF and the entire worker force because the deceased was an asset in the field of private sector liberalization. He sent condolences to the family of the deceased.
“We are saddened by the passing away of our board chairman at this critical moment when the pension sector is under liberalization and it is unfortunate that he has died before we could conclude that process. He managed the board that had many stakeholders and he will be missed dearly,” Mr Byarugaba said, adding “and I want to pass on my condolences and that of the management of NSSF to his family especially his wife and children.”
A cricket enthusiast, Kyayonka died on Friday evening in the Kenyan capital Nairobi where he had gone for specialized treatment.
Kyayonka was serving his last term at NSSF as a board chairman. He had previously served at Shell Uganda (now Vivo Energy) for a long time as the company managing director.
Meanwhile, by press time Bank of Uganda Governor Emmanuel Tumusiime Mutebile had reportedly been flown out of the country to South Africa for treatment.
She used to steal glances at me – Fred Enanga The soft spoken spokesperson of Uganda Police Force Fred Enanga is always in the media talking about foiled robberies, issuing terror alerts, warning against demonstrations and other security related issues. Today, he shares with Eagle Online’s Grace Amme about the sunlit side of his life.
Are you always this soft-spoken?
Yes, that’s how I talk. I have that deep voice which makes me talk like this. Are you single?
I am a married man though I don’t know how you look at marriage. We are married customarily. We have plans of getting wedded but we still have a few things to put up as a family. How did you two meet?
We met in 1997 when I was still in my third year at the university. She was this beautiful girl in the neighborhood who used to steal glances at me and we connected. Of course you know the effect of those glances. Did you immediately start living together when you became a couple?
We didn’t start right away. Of course it involved getting to know one another. She used to stay with her aunt who unfortunately passed away around 2002 or 2003. What crazy things did you do for her?
We were still young and I would wait when her aunt was not around then we would sit and chat at the verandah. We could connect because she always had stories for me and I also had stories for her. What do you think about sex before marriage?
It is not good. When you look at all our traditions, it is a taboo that you as a boy or girl gets engaged in sex before marriage. It is good to have sex with a person meant for you. When you start experimenting you do it for fun yet it’s for love and intimacy. Do you have any children?
We have three boys and three girls and we are stopping at that.
What are some of your memorable high school experiences?
In S.4, I had friends from S.6 and we would ‘pool grab’. Those guys ‘worked’ on my grab and consumed it all. We had oddi (grinded ground nut and sim-sim paste) and as a member of the cubicle, I was entitled to it. One morning, I chocked on it while trying to swallow it down so I wouldn’t get caught by the other boys. There was no water and yet I needed to communicate. A certain guy saw me through the window and I tried communicating using sign (language) but he couldn’t understand. How old are you?
I am 41 years old. I was born on June 23, 1973. What do you do for fun?
I don’t go out so often but we have a club where me and my friends sit every evening and discuss issues about business and also relate with each other, man to man. What would you prefer, a date or soccer?
Laughs… both are good but it would be more interesting if your date loved soccer so that you can have a date over soccer.
They are supposed to sanction cases of misdemeanor including corruption but Mubende Resident State Attorney Patrick Obbo Oneko, is in court battling charges of soliciting a bribe of Shs500.000.
Obbo Oneko, who was released on a cash bail of Shs1.5 million on May 8, allegedly asked for the money from a one Francis Kituula of Kiganda in Mubende district, in exchange for non-prosecution of the latter’s brother-in-law, Gordon Muwange, who is accused of murder.
The Prosecutor appeared before Grade One Magistrate Susan Okeny of the Anti-corruption Court and denied the charges after which he presented three sureties, who were bonded at a non-cash bond of Shs50 million each.
It is said that on or around April 30 Obbo Oneko of Mubende DPP’s office asked for the said money, which landed him in trouble with the law on May 5, when he was allegedly caught receiving the bribe. He was detained and charges preferred against him vide file number MBD CRB 621/2015.
Mr Yusuf Kiwanda, the Inspectorate of Government (IGG) officer prosecuting the case had earlier sought the leave court to stop Obbo Oneko from accessing his office, a request that was not granted, with the magistrate directing Mr Kiwanda to contact both the DPP and IGG offices for further directions.
However, the suspect was ordered to deposit his passport with court, while the case resumes on May 21.
The former Secretary General of the Uganda Red Cross Society Richard Michael Nataka has regained temporary freedom after the Anti-corruption court released him on cash bail on May 8.
Nataka, who spent the night of May 7 in Luzira, is being charged with two counts of abuse of office, after allegedly evading taxes when he shipped in a luxurious SUV, a Toyota Tundra in 2013, claiming it belonged to the URCS.
The said vehicle allegedly belonged to an individual, and subsequent investigations by URA and other prosecuting agencies landed the former URCS boss into the mess that has culminated in him forfeiting Shs15 as bail.
His sureties; his paternal uncle, Paliisa Resident District Commissioner (RDC) John Nabende, Mr Moses Kigayi, another RDC(Manafwa); Mr James Mayoca, a Principal Economist with the Ministry of Education and businesswoman Stella Watenyeli, were all ordered to execute a non-cash bond of Shs100m each by Grade One Magistrate Agnes Alum.
Earlier, state prosecutor Harriet Angom had opposed Nataka’s bail application, arguing that Nataka the suspect was likely to flee, given that there are three new charges being preferred against him by the Directorate of Public Prosecutions..
But the magistrate dismissed the prosecutor’s arguments on grounds that charges were not sustainable at the point in time because the files have not yet been sanctioned.
Hearing resumes June 24.
It has been a helluva of boring week. We had wanted to enter into Fr Simon Lokodo’s brain and decode what kind of yeast is fermenting cancerous cells in there so that we at least come out and tell some of the oncologists among the doctors being exported what they have failed to diagnose in the caricature of a minister but it proved a tough try. Actually, it would have been easier to get judges to give Frying Pun a unanimous decision win over Floyd Mayweather than to enter Lokodo’s head.
The time we spent trying to figure out how to debug Lokodo only caused us mental overdrive and the result was suffering a writer’s block. With deadline approaching, we decided to send several questions to different persons and see what they would say. Some responded. That is how we managed to beat the deadline with this.
First off was Harry Sagara, aka, Saggy. We hit the son of Nebbi on Facebook, asking the now boring former wacky heartthrob why he has made cigarette inundate his libido so much that the idea of marriage makes him go flabby ‘down there’. “You must be a secondary virgin of so many years since Wacky World died. When do you make your ancestors proud?” we asked.
Saggy ignored the inbox message but after some hours, as if pondering how to respond, he went emotional like an actress who told everyone that her debut role would be in the mega movie premiering only for the cameo role to last just a sub-second. Saggy posted: My mother was a wacky one…. one time I brought her a beautiful Shepherd Puppy. I even got it its litre of milk, to my amazement, she kicked out the puppy, boiled the milk and enjoyed it while quarreling mbu, ‘I am here expecting a grandchild and all you do is bring me a puppy’ Now that she’s gone, I need to achieve her expectations. Let’s make mummy smile in her grave. I need a volunteer to make a kid with…any takers?”
One of Saggy’s Facebook friends, Piga Panga, responded, suggesting Praise Asiimwe would be the perfect volunteer. Saggy and Praise were rumoured to be an item back in the late 2000s when the man was a hit and on heat as a satire columnist. Praise was then still enjoying her moment of popcorn fame as former Miss Uganda and the two were often seen in happening places faking PDA (pubic display of adulthood).
In response, Saggy said what he needs now is not someone who will praise him but one to raise his kid. We have chosen to let Saggy die in his own movie.
Floyd Mayweather
The ‘fight of the century’ took place and there was always going to be one winner: Mayweather. It did not matter how much he was pummeled, he had to win. Memes were flying around mocking how the American spent the whole night ducking, running and hugging Manny Pacquiao and that is what we asked. Why hug your opponent yet he is a former domestic assault convict?
“Winners win, losers give excuses,” Mayweather said in his response. “In any case, if I hugged Manny, it is because boxing is like politics; it has no permanent enemies. We can even punch in pre-fight, during weigh-in and so on, but in the ring, the animosity has to end, it becomes a sport and friendship.”
We are not sure who wrote the response because Mayweather can neither read nor write. However, the email was clean with no grammatical mistakes.
“In the sweet science of boxing, it is okay to punch your ex-wife. You know why? Money. It’s all about money. Manny was the reason I was earning $14 million every twelve minutes and a woman is the reason you will lose $25 million in just a single court order. Would you rather hug the bitch or hug Manny? Yes, I ran, I ducked, I hugged Manny and got paid. If I hugged a woman, she gets ideas, ideas for my money. I don’t joke around when it comes to money. My world is about money. It’s money for The Money Team or nothing.”
We were too dumbfounded to write back.
Pierre Nkurunziza
Pierre Nkurunziza
The East African region has Letter K. From Kigali to Kinshasa, back to Kampala and to Kidodoma through Kisumu, everything is about Kenyatta, Kaguta, Kikwete, Kagame and Kiir. But some fluker called Pierre Nkurunziza of Burundi is a very black pea in a white pod. No wonder you will find him playing football surrounded by mean-looking guards while on the streets, citizens are being beaten to death by policemen for protesting. And after his game of soccer, this chap will go and announce that he is running for a sad term in office to prolong the sadness of the Burundians.
We asked him why. He had this to say.
“I am just not ready to leave. Besides, in African politics, when the people vote for you, you lose. There are a few exceptions, of course, but mango people in a typical banana republic vote using a mirror so that the reflection is actually what they mean. So when they go on streets and have themselves used as experiments to test our rifles, then it means they are urging me to stay on. I would be worried if all of them wanted me to stay for five more terms.”
Adbayor
Adebayor’s family
Alive Hajia Emiola Adebayor is a mother from hell. Togolese soccer star Emmanuel Adebayor calls her mother, but we choose to differ. There is need for a DNA test. Emiola and her other ‘real’ children have been turning Ade into an ATM. They want monthly salary. So we tried to contact her.
“No comment. Absolutely no comment. I can’t talk about that monkey, a monkey is not my child. We have absolutely disowned him. Let him live in his money… alone. Absolutely alone.”
David Cameron has retained his job as UK prime Minister after his Conservative Party carried the day in an election that has several big names as casualties.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg of the Liberal Democratic Party (Lib Dems) and Labour leader Ed Miliband are the biggest losers in the polls that were won by the Conservatives with 326 seats, followed by Labour with 230 seats; the Scottish National Party (SNP) 56 seats; Liberal Democrats 8 seats, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) 8 seats, while the UK Independence Party (UKIP), whose leader Nigel Farage lost his Thanet South constituency, managed only one seat.
Miliband and Clegg have already resigned their party posts, while Lib Dems Vince Cable, a Business, Innovation and Skills Secretary also lost his Twickenham seat.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister-elect Cameron has already met with Queen Elizabeth II and returned to his official residence at 10 Downing Street.
Vision group’s grip on Uganda as dominant media platform is under threat as Nation Media Group’s NTV is set to launch their Luganda station to counter Vision group’s Bukedde TV.
Reliable sources indicate that NTV boss Aggie Konde is under pressure to maintain the Serena based TV as a number one station but stress from Bukedde’s influence as the number one Luganda station had earlier on forced NTV to bend on the NMG strict ‘anti-riffraff’ editorial policy, to begin some programmes like Mwasuze Mutya and the Omumuli.
