By Our Reporter Sanyu TV show lovers can brace themselves for more drama as the show is returning for season 3. “Sanyu season 3 is finally out. I am so excited.” Asilo Marion, who plays Linda Mutesi Kirunda on the show, revealed in a promo for the new season. Season 3 will air on Pearl Magic Prime, starting Tuesday, 28th June at 8pm. The Sanyu TV series premiered on Pearl Magic Prime on January 2020 and has gone on to become an instant success, receiving rave reviews from viewers. It tells the story of an innocent, rural teenage girl who…
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By Our Reporter The students of Kasese Youth Polytechnic Vocational Training Institute (VTI) in Western Uganda are set to reap from the generous donation of a fully furnished Digital Resource center courtesy of the MTN Foundation in partnership with Enabel, a Belgian NGO. This project is hinged on MTN’s strategic priority to build digital skills for digital jobs in alignment to the company’s Ambition 2025 Strategy. The MTN Uganda Foundation which is the corporate social responsibility arm of MTN Uganda, in partnership with Enabel, an NGO that supports vocational training institutes with a vision to end unemployment and extreme poverty,…
By Our Reporter As part of its commitment to improving plastic waste management in the country, Plastic Recycling Industries Uganda Limited (PRI) an initiative of Coca-Cola Beverages Africa (CCBA) in Uganda, has signed a partnership deal with three community-based plastic collection, management, and recycling companies namely Yo-Waste, Ecoplastile and Asante Waste Management. The newly signed partnership will see the three companies collaborate with CCBA to set-up more collection centers in the community and supply PRI with plastic collected. Speaking at the MoU signing, Samuel Kangave, the Plastic Recycling Industries Plant Manager called upon the public to change their mindset toward…
By Our Reporter The exciting MTN MoMo Nyabo promotion recently came into its 5th edition with dutiful winners including two police officers and a community-based worker, namely; Joseph Okwonji, Richard Okello and Eloka Enkemenya respectively. The brand-new Toyota succeed cars were delivered to the lucky MoMo Nyabo Waaka promotion winners after a random draw system where each of their MTN mobile numbers were selected. This exciting promotion has been giving away 3 cars a week following a draw that is televised every Thursday at 8pm. A random draw selection style was used to choose from various MoMo pay users and…
By Our Reporter In a pursuit to mentor the next breed of journalists, media personality Douglas Lwanga is using his latest innovation, the Purple Skills Klinic Foundation, to bridge the gap between media students and those practicing their careers. On Saturday, June 18, the Skills klinic foundation organized a Media Master class under the theme “New challenges, new opportunities, mentoring the next breed of media personalities.” The students had a chance to learn a few things from the crème de la crème of the media industry that including Faridah Nakibwe News anchor and talk show host NTVUganda, Dr. Innocent Nahabwe…
By Our Reporter Hariss International Limited, in partnership with Rotary Club Kasangati, has officially commissioned a two-classroom block at Grace Junior School -Gonve. This is part of a UGX 200Million project where Hariss International joined hands with Rotary club Kasangati in 2015 to build classroom blocks in Makukuba Sub-county in Mukono district. This is the second successful project under the “ADOPT A VILLAGE” initiative, which focuses on positively changing children’s lives by improving their education. The school, located in a village where children had to move over 5 to 10 kilometres to access a school, will help improve the literacy…
By Our Reporter The four finalists in MTN’s Nsindika Njake entrepreneurship show pitched intriguing business ideas focusing on winning the up-for-grabs 60 million shillings. Jovan Kagezi presented about a charcoal stove connected to a chimney and a biogas source providing clean cooking energy to the end-users. Kagezi added that his business makes charcoal briquettes at affordable prices targeting households, schools, restaurants and hotels. He described his business as the best for any cook. Shakirah Nassejje’s idea revolved around a tailoring business making bags, clothes and also skilling persons with disabilities. Nassejje assured the judges that her business could record sky-high…
By Our Reporter On Tuesday, MTN Uganda donated computers and a WiFi router and a multi-purpose printer to the Nakawa Market vendors Association as it concluded its staff volunteerism campaign dubbed 21 Days of Y’ello Care, which also doubled as the MTN Y’ello Care Day across the MTN footprint. Similarly, an MTN staff team in Mbarara also reached out to the Bunusya Abarema Twetungungure association in Mbarara on the same day, with a donation of goats, fencing materials, and farm inputs as well as a digital training session to support the group of farmers on their path to recovery following…
By Our Reporter Ugandan techpreneur, Shamim Nabuuma Kaliisa, has been sworn in as the African Representative on the Commonwealth Youth Council (CYC) Executive Committee. Ms. Nabuuma, who is the founder and CEO of the CHIL Artificial Intelligence Lab Group and a co-founder of Solerchil Technologies, took oath as part of the new executive to serve until 2024. This was during the Commonwealth Youth Forum, held ahead of the 2022 Commonwealth Heads of Governments Meeting (CHOGM), under the theme ‘Taking Charge of Our Future’. “I grew up in Africa, schooled in Africa and started my business in Africa before I scaled…
By Our Reporter The first edition of the Tusker Lite Mt. Rwenzori Marathon has been announced. This was during a press conference held at the Margherita Hotel in Kasese on Tuesday. The marathon is slated for 3rd September, 2022 and will start and end at the aptly named Kasese Marathon Grounds. To launch the marathon, organisers, Amos Wekesa and Robert Kabushenga, along with 12 other travel enthusiasts summited Mt. Rwenzori’s Margherita Peak to place the marathon banner and draw world attention to the event. The marathon has been organised with the purposes of fostering healthy lifestyles, highlighting climate preservation and…