Author: BigEyeUg1

By Our Reporter Emirates, the world’s largest international airline, and Stanbic Bank, Uganda’s largest commercial bank by assets have unveiled a special discount for customers, on flight tickets across Emirates First, Business and Economy class cabins using the bank’s Platinum Visa and Gold Credit Cards. The offer applies for online bookings, and is valid from now until 14, November, 2020, for travel until the 14th of December, 2020. Stanbic Bank customers can enjoy discounted fares of 12% across First and Business Class and 10% for Economy Class. Commenting on the partnership, John Gemin, Emirates Country Manager, Uganda, said; “At Emirates…

By Our Reporter Comedy Store Uganda has donated basic items and cash to Katalemwa Cheshire Rehabilitation Home, which supports children with special needs. A team from Comedy Store led by the Director and Host, Alex Muhangi, visited the rehabilitation centre situated in Mpererwe outside Kampala on Tuesday afternoon. They made a donation of food items such as beans, rice, posho, sugar, cooking oil, as well as other basic household items like detergents. The team arrived at Katalemwa at around 1pm and was received by Samali Matovu, the Executive Director of the Center. They were later guided on a tour of…

By Our Reporter Celebrated TV presenter & events emcee, Sheila Salta has officially joined NBS Television. Salta joins the Kamwokya-based station as the new face on the weekly music live-audience TV show, “Katch Up”. She comes as a replacement for Anita Fabiola who is expected to be seen less and less due to her now busy international schedule. Salta is expected to make her debut in February when the 3rd season of show finally premieres on Friday, February 7th. Salta has been on the TV scene since she was 13 years old when she worked on the now-defunct WBS TV’s…

By Our Reporter PZ Cussons through its sole distributor, African Queen No.1 Distributor Limited have rewarded the final winners in Imperial Leather’s “Be Fresh and Win” campaign. The final winners took home the promotion’s top prizes which included cash prizes of Ugx 10 million, Ugx 3 million and a fully paid trip for two to Dubai. Doreen Nabakooza, a resident of Nansana took home the grand prize of Ugx 10M, Kitego David a resident in Kawanda received the Ugx 3M, while Mbabazi Irene and Ssali John each won a fully paid trip for two to Dubai. The 15-week promotion that…

By Our Reporter DJ Ciza is back with new music. The popular radio and club deejay has released his first song of the year titled, “Karekye”, on which he teams up with Cosign and dancehall singer Vyper Ranking. According to Ciza, the song was recorded on Christmas day. “While most of you were having enjoyments, we were in studio cooking a timeless banger that this song is about to be.” He quipped. The song was produced by Nexo and mastered by Herbert Skills. Karekye is Ciza’s fourth studio single. Other songs to his name include, Bad Energy (ft. Cosign), Gukubira…

By Our Reporter National Social Security Fund (NSSF) in the recently concluded 6-day blood drive managed to collect 8887 units of blood across the country, this was 88.8% of the set target of 10,000 units. The blood donation centers around Kampala collected 4,031 units in total while the upcountry donation points managed to collect 4,856 units throughout the six-day campaign. The top three upcountry districts that collected the highest units of blood were; Mbarara which collected 659 units, Masaka collected 535 units and Hoima which managed to collect 380 units of blood. This year’s NSSF National Blood Donation Drive which…

By Our Reporter The East African Meat Carnival, a popular meaty food event returned for its first 2020 edition over the weekend at The Gardens in Najjera. Powered by Tusker Lite, revelers preferred to dance all night to the Utake music mixes that only DJ maestros Benon and Cisse could perfectly handle as they mixed and played East African throwbacks throughout the night keeping the revelers on their feet for most of the night while others were seen basking to the old school East African throwbacks and reminiscing about the good ol’ days. For those who’s agenda was the famous…

By Our Reporter Nigerian star, Burna Boy will have to wait a bit longer before he can add a Grammy Award to his trophy collection. The singer who was a fan favorite for the World Music award at this year’s Grammy Awards lost to fellow African singer Angelique Kidjo. Burna Boy had been nominated for his fourth studio album African Giant, which was released in July 2019 to critical acclaim with the album being described as his “crossover moment”. The album is a mixture of Afro-fusion, Afrobeat, dancehall, pop and hip hop. Accepting the award, Angelique Kidjo was all praise…

By Our Reporter Social Media users and enthusiasts who flocked Silver Springs Bugolobi on Saturday were treated to a one-day social media extravaganza as the Social Media Fest made its debut on the Kampala social scene. The event was a magnet for different players in the digital space like bloggers, social media managers, influencers, and digital marketing practitioners among others who turned up for the many fun and unique engagements with the better part of the day being an interactive learning experience at the silent conference with topics relating to ICT, internet, branding on social media and much more being…

By Our Reporter Perjury is a criminal act that occurs when a person lies or makes statements that are not truthful while under oath. For example, if a person is asked to testify – under oath -in a criminal proceeding but do not tell the truth, they can be charged with perjury if it is discovered that they have lied. By committing perjury, people partake in the miscarriage of justice and corrupt the legal process. As a result, perjury is considered a very serious criminal offense, even though most people who lie under oath have never bothered to understand the…