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What RealTime Gaming Video Poker Games Catch the Attention of Players?

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Our Reporter
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RealTime Gaming may be most popular for its slot games, but the developer has many other games on offer. Most notably, RTG has dozens of excellent video poker games, having developed a slew of variants available in online casinos. Just like the slots, these RTG games are based on a solid math model, so if you know your way around poker, you can make solid cash on these machines.

Every video poker by RealTime Gaming has a slightly different setup than the others. They all have one thing in common – they have a user-friendly interface, so it won’t be hard for you to pick things up if you’re a fan of video poker.

A Massive Selection of Video Pokers

RealTime Gaming’s video pokers may not have the highest odds in the industry. However, no one can match the developer’s number of video pokers. You can play all the variants you can think of, including Jacks or Better, Double Jackpot Poker, Joker Poker, 7 Stud Poker, Aces & Eights, and Bonus Poker.

The variety of games is extremely important and valued in RTG’s case. Many developers stick to common variants, not exploring the video poker market deeper. RealTime Gaming does, giving players a chance to try them all for free or real money.

Below you can see the top-rated RTG video poker variants we believe deserve a shot.

Deuces Wild

In this variant, the deuces act as wilds – more commonly known as a joker. They can substitute for any other card to help you qualify for a reward. In Deuces Wild, deuces are the key to fantastic poker hands and great payouts.

You can see the payouts for each hand on the display. The gameplay is pretty simple, with only a few buttons to click on. Set your bets and cross your fingers for a deuce or two – it should lead to wild winning combinations.

All American Poker

A video poker suitable for new players and poker vets, All American Poker offers exciting payouts in digital format. The game was popular in Vegas long before it made the virtual jump, but you can now play it in casinos such as El Royale with ease.

It’s a 1-hand game that can be played with ease. Simply place your bet and do your best to build a budding hand. The higher your bet is, the bigger the rewards.

Joker Poker

One of the favorite video pokers of all time, Joker Poker relies on poker ‘wilds’ to create amazing hands. The highest payout is expectedly given for a Royal Flush, which can be hard to build. Not if you have a joker or two, though, which are this game’s true highlight.

Like all RealTime Gaming video pokers, Joker Poker is very easy to play. It has a user-friendly interface you’re going to love regardless of the device you’re playing on.

Loose Deuces

In any card game, 2s are not exactly the most pleasant number you can get. That’s not the case with Loose Deuces, though, a video poker variant where they play the role of wilds that can provide the big bucks.

With a superb user interface and plenty of 2s coming your way, it’s a video poker game you shouldn’t miss.

Bonus Deuces Wild

This one’s more or less the same as Deuces Wild, with the addition of great payouts for numerous four-of-a-kind hands. It’s an upgraded version of Jacks or Better with the same fun and familiar gameplay and bonus payouts on top of it.

 

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IUIU student wins Shs75m in UBL’s kyusa Levo promotion

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Geoffery Serugo
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Andrew Mugisha and Hillary Baguma, UBL Brand Manager Mainstream Spirits pose with a dummy cheque.

 

Islamic University In Uganda student Andrew Mugisha has won Shs75 million in the Uganda Breweries Limited’s (UBL)  Kyusa Levo Promotion.

Launched in March 2021, the promotion is part of UBL’s 75th anniversary celebrations, giving back to its consumers for their tremendous support in the last 75 years.

Mugisha, a former law student and irish potato farmer, to him, the reaction was utter shock when he found out that he had emerged the ultimate winner of Shs75 million in UBL’s Kyusa Levo promotion.

“It was lunch time when I received the message, and I immediately lost my appetite. I couldn’t believe it. I lost words. I froze, I went back and counted the zeros. They were too many. Then the next day, the brand manager called me to confirm.”  he said

Mugisha, whose drink of choice is Uganda Waragi premium, recently finished his law degree at Islamic University in Uganda and decided to go back to Kisoro his home village to engage in small scale irish potato farming as he awaits his graduation.

He plans to invest the cash into his farming project and hopes that 20 years from now, he will still be able to earn from the cash prize.

“I plan to continue doing what I’ve been doing, but on a bigger scale. I intend to acquire more land and grow more irish. My life has definitely changed and I am super excited for that.”

He added, “I would like to convey a very big thank you to the entire family at UBL and to wish them a happy 75th birthday. To the public, I encourage them to continue participating because the promotion is still going on.”

UBL has also provided a financial advisor to guide Mugisha as he embarks on this journey.

Hillary Baguma, UBL’s brand manager for Mainstream Spirits said, “We are very excited to have gotten the winner of the grand prize. So far, we have given cash prizes to over 72,000 winners from all over Uganda as we continue to give back to our consumers for standing with us throughout the last 75 years and also to give them a helping hand following the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic.”

Mr. Baguma said the promotion will go on up to the 15th of July 2021 and consumers can still win cash prizes ranging from Shs5,000 to Shs7,500,000.

 

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Focus on innovation as an avenue for customer satisfaction

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Our Reporter
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Mr. Michael Opira

 

Over the last ten years, there has been a steady shift in banking and financial services from the conventional channels to a more digitized service offering. This shift has been accelerated further by the onset of the #Covid-19 pandemic, which has created an increased demand from customers for remote and alternative methods of accessing financial services.

The shift, however, is not new to Housing Finance Bank which begun its investment in digital transformation years ago with an aim of creating more value for its increasingly youthful and tech savvy customer base. In 2015, Housing Finance Bank introduced mobile banking and went ahead to introduce Internet Banking and Agent Banking in 2019. At the Beginning of 2020, the bank delivered a corporate internet banking suite to the business and institutional customers, further augmenting their access to remote banking services which saved them a lot of time and money.

According to Michael Opira, the head of the Operations Department at Housing Finance Bank, along with innovation, the growth of Housing Finance Bank has been achieved through deliberate focus on the needs of the customers, and through skilling the staff to deliver the superior services that customers expect.

“Housing Finance Bank is now in the phase of its transformation where we are putting customers even more at the center of the business. We understand that demographics have changed and most of the customers are now tech savvy and demand convenience. Banking must be on the go. It must be faster and yet secure. Technology has changed over time and it has changed how we deliver services to the customer.”

It is considering these insights that Housing Finance Bank has structured itself to provide innovative solutions to be ahead of the changing needs of the customers. This is being done by investing in future looking core banking solutions and new technologies like Artificial Intelligence to offer additional value to customers. Additionally, the bank is currently collaborating further with FinTechs and other technology stakeholders while packing the mobile banking and online banking channels with more value-added services to be able to meet the needs and exceed the demand of customers.

Regarding the internal stakeholders, Opira notes that Housing Finance Bank is in the process of re-engineering internal processes in order to reduce touch points which create bottlenecks and affect turnaround time. He adds that there is a deliberate effort to invest more in the staff through trainings and empowerment to be able to support the changes and implement the evolving vision of the bank.

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Police shoots one dead as chaos ensues at Kalerwe market

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Geoffery Serugo
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Luke Owoyesigire

 

One person has allegedly been shot dead during chaotic scenes that ensued at Kalerwe northern wing of the Market earlier today. The death has been confirmed by the Kampala Metropolitan Police (KMP) deputy Spokesperson Luke Owoyesigire.

The deceased has been identified as George Ssejjemba, a hawker  working in Kampala. According to Owoyesigire, Kalerwe police was alerted about the chaos at the northern wing of the market and swang to manage the situation.

According to Owoyesigire, the chaos was started by two night security guards contracted by the Hajji Abasi, one of the managers of the market. The two are currently detained at Wandegeya Police Station, the two were demanding their pay of Shs35 millon noting that they had gone several months without pay.

“It is averred that the two and others at large started destroying various goods and food however, police led by Inspector of police (IP)  Mariam Ato intervened and started dispersing the crowds but during the scuffle, Ssejjemba was it by a stray bullet,” he said

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Education Ministry signs contracts for 16 TVET institutions

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Geoffery Serugo
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Education Ministry PS, Alex Kakooza.
The Ministry of Education and Sports had concluded signing of 20 contracts for infrastructural development at sixteen (16)  TVET  Institutions in Uganda, under the Uganda Skills Development Project (USDP).
Between 8th-9th July 2021,  the USDP project climaxed the civil works with the handover of the final five (5) sites for construction under the UTC Elgon cluster. Four TVET Institutions are benefitting under this last construction leg and over UGX 22 Billion is being invested for the construction of various structures at UTC Elgon, (2 sites), Butaleja Technical Institute, Kasodo Technical Institute and Kaliro Technical Institute.
At UTC Elgon, over Shs16 billion is being invested to construct nine training Laboratories/Workshops, an administration block, a girls hostel, a toilet block and a generator house. Walkways and parking areas will also be clearly demarcated and constructed and landscaping done at the Institution.
At Butaleja VTI,  more than Shs2 billion will be spent to construct an electrical laboratories, an electrical shop, a toilet block, an underground tank and a water well. A transformer will be provided to boost electricity supply at the institute.  Meanwhile at Kasodo VTI, also over Shs2 billion will also be invested to  construct a plumbing laboratory, a plumbing shop, a toilet block and an underground tank . A transformer will be also provided and electricity connected to the institute.
For Kaliro Technical Institute will have an investment of over Shs1.9 billion for the construction of a mechanical laboratory, a mechanical shop, a toilet block and an underground tank at the institute  as well as installation of the transformer and construction of  walkways and parking area.
According to a statement from Ministry of Education and Sports, at UTC Elgon, the civil works are expected to take nine months while the contractors for the VTIs are expected to complete construction within the next six months.
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President Uhuru pays a moving tribute as Aggrey Awori laid to rest

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Francisco Adongo
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RIP Aggrey Awori

 

 

Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta has praised former Samia Bugwe North legislator and former 2001 presidential candidate Aggrey Siryoyi Awori describing him as a true Pan Africanist.

In a letter read by Mr Dennis Awori, a nephew to the late Awori but also former  Kenya’s Ambassador to Japan and current chairman of Toyota Kenya, President Uhuru thanked Awori for the thriving enterprises in East Africa but above all the setting up of journalism school at University of Nairobi.

“He was a great leader and true Pan Africanist we appreciate he made Uganda his home. Awori is a true reflection of how East Africa should be. He grew up a network of people with a vision.We also appreciate Awori, he created  thriving enterprises within the region and we shall forever treasure his contribution” President Kenyatta said.

Mr. Denis Awori led a delegation of mourners from the large Awori family in Kenya who included a Bishop from Nambale diocese. Mr. Denis Awori said as the Awori extended family, it was a sad moment for the loss of his uncle.

mourner after mourner praised Awori for his selfless contribution he made in all spheres of life. Dokolo district Woman Member of Parliament Cecile Ogwal said that whereas she is a MP, she had travelled to Bugiri to burry Awori as a long time close friend as the two have shared both family and political life. She however, said she was ashamed that despite the bashing Awori received while he crossed from Uganda People’s Congress to National Resistance Movement party, the ruling party and government didn’t bother to send a representative at his burial.

“I have come here not as an MP or government representative but i come here to stand with the family and my wife Thelma. We have lost a very valuable member of the family. Aggrey was really a dear brother.  Awori was tall in everything, he was a strategic maneuver and that is how we managed NRM” Ms Ogwal said.

Adding “Aggrey is an embodiment of Africa. He got us a wife from Liberia. The young MPs taking over from us is that do everything to dismantle these borders. Aggrey was too mature for some of us, he was a great Pan Africanist and I feel bad for government that it was hard for Aggrey to cross to NRM and today nobody is here to represent government” She said.

Ms Ogwal was the only high ranking legislator and possibly government  present at the burial, others being three other local Members of Parliament from Busia and Bugiri.

Mr. denis Lukaya who represented Makerere Youth for Awori 2001 praised the seasoned legislator for mentoring him and other members of the group.

“He was kind to us, he told us that as young people to alway do research on any topic or assignment to be undertaken. He further said as young people , if you get into government, do not steal”. Mr Lukaya said.

Ms Thelma Awori the widow through her son Baisama Awori thanked President Museveni for the generosity and standing with the family. Museveni contributed Shs60 million towards medical bills and Shs10 million to help in burial arrangements. Others that she appreciated are Ms Ogwal and former principal Judge Justice James Ogoola.

Ms Awori didn’t make it to bury her husband as she wasn’t well healthwise.

Busia district chairman of the elders Vincent Masiga told mourners that met Awori in 1960 and since then, they had remained friends until his death.

Departed former legislator and 2001 presidential candidate Aggrey Awori has been laid to rest at his Kibimba home in Buwuni town council in Bugiri district.

At exactly 2.10 pm, his casket was lowered in the grave that he prepared for himself by A-Plus handlers and a few of his family members while observing #Covid-19 SOPs.

Mr Awori died on Monday July 5, 2021 in a Kampala hospital where he was admitted for sometime. He has been battling sickness related to old but #Covid-19 claimed his life age. He was 82 years.

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URSB trains senior police officers on how to deal with intellectual property infringment

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Geoffery Serugo
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The Registrar General Mercy Kainobwisho.

 

Uganda’s national Intellectual property office, the Uganda Registration Services Bureau (URSB) has concluded a two-day virtual training on intellectual property (IP) and mechanisms for dealing with trademark counterfeiting and copyright piracy for police officers undertaking the Senior Command Course, at the Police Senior Command and Staff College, Bwebajja.

The training was organized to present measures to law enforcers on how they can ensure that intellectual property rights are well-protected thereby encouraging Ugandan companies, in particular small, medium enterprises (SMEs) and start-ups to invest in innovation and creativity without the fear of their ideas being duplicated.

According to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), intellectual property refers to ‘creations of the mind: inventions, literary and artistic works, and symbols, names, images, and designs used in commerce. IP is divided into two categories: Industrial property, which includes inventions (patents), trademarks, industrial designs, and geographic indications of source; and copyright, which includes literary and artistic works such as novels, poems and plays, films, musical works, artistic works such as drawings, paintings, photographs and sculptures, and architectural designs. Rights related to copyright include those of performing artists in their performances, producers of phonograms in their recordings, and those of broadcasters in their radio and television programs’

Commissioner of Police, Moses Kafeero who is also the Commandant of the College said the training was timely since it would make it easier for the police officers to act efficiently against breaches of intellectual property rights, facilitate easier litigation and tackle the distribution and sale of counterfeited or pirated products.

‘We thank URSB for offering us the opportunity to learn more about how we can efficiently combat IP infringements. We are now better prepared to act faster against counterfeiting and piracy. We can now reliably compliment all efforts targeted towards IP rights enforcement while stepping up action on infringement’ CP Kafeero said

The Registrar General, Mercy Kainobwhisho said the training was in-line with Government’s National Intellectual Property Policy that gave priority to the protection and commercialization of intellectual property as part of growing the creative sectors of the economy.

‘Uganda’s economic growth and competitiveness largely depends on the many entrepreneurs, from the start-ups to large companies who are continuously investing in new ideas and knowledge. We believe training a reliable team that is capable of enforcing intellectual property rights will encourage investment and boost our collective ability to protect and counter fake goods and pirated content which harm our companies and jobs by denying them revenues from their inventions’ She said

‘We want to grant everyone a fair and balanced reward for their innovations while allowing others to build on this to protection to generate new innovative products and services’ Kainobwisho added

The training comes on the heels of efforts by URSB and other stakeholders to step up the fight against counterfeiting and piracy while working towards depriving commercial-scale IP infringers of gains that make their criminal activity lucrative.

Training participants were taken through the various measures to encourage the fight against IP infringements, reduce the volume of counterfeited products and ensuring high-level legal protection for intellectual property owners. The training also tackled enhancement of compliance and practical functioning of IP usage, increase of legal certainty for all stakeholders in the IP ecosystem while facilitating enforcement, facilitating industry-led initiatives and reinforcing cooperation programmes that support IP protection across board, plus general aspects of IP and complaint handling and enforcement.

The Registrar General made a generous donation of copies of compendium of laws to all participants to aid their grasp of legal knowledge needed for easier enforcement of IP rights.

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Awori to be buried in a grave he dug 10 years ago

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Trevor S Baleke
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RIP Aggrey Awori

 

Former ICT Minister and presidential candidate Aggrey Awori will be buried in a grave he built for himself 10 years ago.
Awori succumbed to #Covid-19 at TMR hospital in Naalya on Monday this week. He will be laid to rest at his country home in Kibimba village, Buwuni town council in Bugiri district tomorrow Saturday.

The grave in which Awori will be buried.

According to Awori’s sister Constance Taaka, said Awori dug his own grave to prepare for his death about ten years ago. Taaka says that Awori preferred his body to be buried in a very quiet place.
Taaka says the deceased often told his relatives and friends that he had constructed his burial site so as to reduce the financial burden on his family and mourners.

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Haiti: Four ‘mercenaries’ who assassinated president Jovenel Moise killed

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Agencies
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Jovenel Moise was killed and his wife Martine (right) was seriously injured

Police in Haiti say they have killed four of the “mercenaries” who assassinated the country’s president, Jovenel Moise.

He was killed at his home in Port-au-Prince, the capital of the impoverished Caribbean island, in the early hours of Wednesday.

His wife was flown to hospital in Miami in a serious but stable condition, according to interim prime minister Claude Joseph

Police General Director Leon Charles said late on Wednesday that as well as the four killed, two mercenaries had been captured and that security forces were involved in a fierce gun battle with the suspects.

“We blocked them en route as they left the scene of the crime,” he said.

“Since then, we have been battling with them. They will be killed or apprehended.”

Three officers held hostage by the gunmen had been freed, Mr Charles added

Haiti’s ambassador to the US, Bocchit Edmond, said the attackers had pretended to be from the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) as they raided the couple’s hilltop home.

The streets of Port-au-Prince were mostly deserted on Wednesday and local reports said a convoy taking Mr Moise’s body to the morgue was forced to divert due to roadblocks and gunfire.

The assassination of the 53-year-old has been condemned by world leaders, including President Joe Biden, who called it a “heinous attack” and said America was “ready to assist”.

A two-week state of emergency has been declared, with Mr Edmond claiming “foreign mercenaries” were responsible.

Interim leader Claude Joseph said they had spoken in English and Spanish, but the languages commonly spoken in Haiti are Creole and French.

Speaking in a TV address alongside the head of police, he urged Haitians: “I am calling for calm. Everything is under control. This barbaric act will not remain unpunished.”

 

 

 

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Jacob Zuma finally hands himself over to police as he starts jail for 15 months

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Agencies
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WHAT NEXT: former South African President Jacob Zuma.

South Africa’s former President Jacob Zuma has handed himself in to police to begin serving a 15-month jail sentence for contempt of court.

He was admitted to Estcourt Correctional Centre in his home province of KwaZulu-Natal on Wednesday.

Police had warned that they were prepared to arrest him if he did not hand himself in by midnight.

Zuma, 79, was handed the jail term last week after he failed to attend a corruption inquiry.

The sentencing sparked an unprecedented legal drama in South Africa, with a deadline imposed of midnight on Wednesday (22:00 GMT) for his arrest.

The deadline was imposed after Zuma refused to hand himself in on Sunday.

In a short statement, the Jacob Zuma Foundation said the former president had “decided to comply with the incarceration order” and hand himself in to prison authorities.

His daughter, Dudu Zuma-Sambudla, later wrote on Twitter that her father was “en route [to the jail] and he is still in high spirits”.

Zuma was sentenced on 29 June for defying an instruction to give evidence at an inquiry into corruption during his nine years in power.

Businessmen have been accused of conspiring with politicians to influence the decision-making process while he was in office. But Zuma has repeatedly said that he is the victim of a political conspiracy.

Though he was forced out of office by his own party in 2018, the African National Congress (ANC), he retains a loyal body of supporters, especially in his home province of KwaZulu-Natal.

Zuma was once an illustrious political figure, who was jailed for fighting the racist system of apartheid in South Africa.

Now, he has been arrested for being contemptuous of South Africa’s most senior judges – the guardians of the democracy he fought for – as he tried to evade accountability over the deluge of corruption allegations he faced during his presidency.

It is an ignominious end to Zuma’s political career, but a proud moment for South Africa’s democracy. It shows that no one is above the law – not even a former president.

His supporters threatened to block any attempt by police to arrest him, but in the end they did not have to. The 79-year-old surrendered, knowing he could not defeat the might of the state.

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