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by Joab Tuhairwe St Josephs SS was recently rocked by Mirinda ongoing miss teens contest that is curently running throughout Uganda. Their play ground was filled to capacity with students from both Primary and Secondary to witness the crowing of Miss teens, Miss brainy, Miss entrepreneur and Fashionista. Many items were show cased including modeling, dancing, miming, rapping and acting on stage where some miss teens contestants preferred acting as their way of releasing their fun side as per Mirinda tagline as they responded a task from the judges. As the day progressed, some of the best Uganda comedians, Dolibondo…

 By Joab Tuhairwe  Uganda got lucky enough to have its first ever Ugandan produced television mini opera code named The Hostel. The show which airs on NTV was is meant to depict what takes place in campus/University hostels in an entertaining way. No other Ugandan TV series has matched the fan base that the Hostel TV series managed to collect in a short time, talk of shows like Destiny despite criticism from the audiences who believe the screen writer did not do enough to bring out what transpires in University hostels. Season one had several actors that people had seen…

 By Joab TUHAIRWE  His music, audience, fame and style grow day by day. The Uganda’s internationally recognized hip-hop icon Navio is moving heights with a new video under now production. Navio yesterday kicked off shooting his video for a callabo with Yung Mulo dubbed one by one. The dance hall tune that was produced by Hanz of Hanz tactics will be a platform for the young and promising Yung Mulo runway to stardom as he will be able to be marketed internationally on the albums under Navio’s name. Some of the scenes selected for this video were shot at Lubowa estates and…

Nelson Mandela has become critically ill in hospital, the South African presidency has announced. President Jacob Zuma said he had visited Mr Mandela and spoken to his wife and medical teams. Doctors were “doing everything possible to get his condition to improve” said Mr Zuma in a statement. South Africa’s first black president, 94, was taken to hospital in Pretoria earlier this month for the third time this year, with a lung infection. Mr Zuma said he had been told by doctors on Sunday that the former president’s condition had worsened over the past 24 hours. “The doctors are doing…

Kanye West reportedly has not proposed to his baby mama, Kim Kardashian. According to PEOPLE, there is no proposal yet, but their source says, “I can’t imagine them not getting married. That’s in their future!” A report suggesting that the “New Slaves” rapper popped the question to the 32-year-old TV personality emerged over the weekend. British media The Sun claimed that Kim accepted Kanye’s proposal and they would get married in Paris this September. Kanye reportedly had not chosen an engagement ring, but he prepared a “push present,” a black and tiger-striped diamond ring which reportedly cost him 500,000 pound…

Men looking for a quick fling prefer women with more “feminine” facial features, said a study Friday that delved into the evolutionary determinants of the mating game. Feminine features like a smaller jawbone or fuller cheeks are closely linked to a woman’s perceived attractiveness, which in turn is taken as an indicator of health, youth and fidelity and other traits, it said. Feminine features are associated with a higher level of the female hormone oestrogen, which is also linked with reproductive success. Studies on factors that influence human mating mostly focus on women, who have shown a similar preference for…

As Marissa Mayer approaches her one-year anniversary as chief executive of Yahoo, she’s hewing closely to the struggling Web portal’s traditional advertising model – and eyeing more video programming of every stripe as central to the strategy. “We’re working on various methods in terms of how we can increase our video views, and watching,” Mayer said at the Reuters Global Technology Summit on Thursday. “It’s clear to me that our video business is something that’s growing a lot. It’s something that we’d like to accelerate.” Yahoo is currently bidding to acquire Hulu, the online hub for TV programming owned by…

Samsung Ativ Q is a 13.3-inch device that has a thickness of 13.9 mm and weighs 1.29 kgs. It also comes with a qHD+ display that has a resolution of 1800×3200 pixels. The hybrid is powered by an Intel Core i5 processor. The device comes with a 4GB RAM and 128GB SSD storage. It also has a 720p HD camera on-board. In terms of ports, the Ativ Q comes with one USB 3.0, one USB 2.0, an HDMI port, a headphone/ microphone combination jack and a microSD card slot. The device comes with both Windows 8 and Android Jelly Bean…

In the aftermath of the Zari-Ivan Ssemwanga scandal that saw Don Ivan steal Sharon O from Ronnie Mulindwa, many Ugandans have posed questions. These include those who asked to know what Ugandan celebrities are seeing in witchdoctors. Others like Roger Mugisha even came up with catchy book titles like: “How a rich witch stole my bitch”. But the bigger question is why Ugandan celebrities are now willing to risk it all and date traditional healers. It all began off with Leila Kayondo who chose to join the long list of SK Mbuga’s girlfriends. We are not sure whether it was…

Uganda Cranes international Tonny Mawejje says his recent rejuvenation is down to the desire to emulate retired stars Ibrahim Sekagya and Ibrahim Sekagya. The midfielder is enjoying a rich vein of form having helped Uganda to two World Cup qualifying games in which he scored in the 1-0 and 2-1 victories over Liberia and Angola respectively. He continued his scoring form by grabbing another goal for his IBV Vestmannaeyja club in Iceland this week. Mawejje says the need to take responsibility after former skipper Sekagya and talisman Obua called time on their national team careers last year has forced to…