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By Our Reporter Airtel Uganda has also launched internet bundles that do not expire. Dubbed Chillax Bundles, the new bundles are designed to give customers more flexibility and comfort as they browse the internet. “The Chillax Bundles do not expire once subscribed to unless exhausted,” the Chief Commercial officer Airtel Uganda, Amit Kapur, said during the launch. “The launch of these bundles is offering our customers more options to enjoy our fast and interrupted data services that are accessible in every corner of the country.” Through continuous investment and innovation, Airtel Uganda has revolutionalized the telecom industry in Uganda to…

By Our Reporter Airtel Uganda has been recognized and awarded for its continuous innovation under the Airtel Money services that has accelerated financial inclusion in Uganda. The telco scooped the 2021 FinTech Innovation Award at the 18th annual East Africa Com Virtual Awards ceremony held last week in Nairobi – Kenya together with Comviva, a global leader in mobile solutions offering digital VAS, mobile finance and customer management solutions for telecom operators. According to East Africa Com, the awards organizer, The Fintech Innovation Award honours top companies and products leading in Financial Technology (FinTech) innovations in East Africa. Airtel Money…

By Our Reporter The much-anticipated climax to Season Four of the Budo League came to an exhilarating end at Legend’s Grounds in Lugogo on Sunday. The finale was a display of soccer prowess that saw crowd favourites Thazoballo take on Peaky Blinders in the first round of the semi-finals, with the Peaky Blinders coming out victors with a 3-1 win to book a date in the finals. The other main cup semi-final saw Centurions going head-to-head with the Accumulators, and the Accumulators winning the game 1-0 and bagging themselves in a spot in the final. The second tier semi-finals saw…

By Our Reporter Judas Rapknowledge Da Akbar, real name Kilara Daniel, carried the day as the MTN UG HipHop award winners were announced on Sunday. The Northern Uganda based artiste scooped two awards including Northern Uganda Artist of the Year and the Male Artist of the Year, in which he bested famed rappers, Fik Fameica and Navio among others. Accepting the award on behalf of the rapper who was absent at the award gala held at Motiv warehouse in Bugolobi, his manager Cheno Billy could not hide his surprise as he fumbled for words to say. “I am speechless. I…

By Our Reporter To celebrate Africa Day on Tuesday, 25th May, MultiChoice Group is launching M-Net Movies Afro-Cinema, a pop-up movie channel dedicated to showcasing and celebrating contemporary African films. The Afro-Cinema Channel will be available from Friday, 21 May, to Sunday, 30 May 2021, on Channel 198 to DStv customers on Access to Premium packages across the continent. The Afro-Cinema Channel is curated to celebrate Africa’s cultural diversity, aptly reflected and captured in the work that is being produced by filmmakers all over the continent. Through collaboration and turning challenges into possibilities, local film industries across the continent have…

By Our Reporter  Uganda’s film industry under the umbrella body Pearlwood in different capacities has nothing but praise to sing for leading telecom MTN Uganda after it debuted a solution to the industry’s challenge of marketing. Pearlwood is the umbrella body for a consortium of players in the film industry including video jockeys and film producers, actors and actresses For some actresses, words could not do justice to the picture of enormous happiness they were feeling. This was witnessed during the recently concluded launch of Kibanda Xpress, a video streaming channel for local content with the ability to showcase 150…

By Our Reporter  The much-anticipated climax to Season Four of the Budo League will be happening this Sunday, May 16 at Legends Rugby Grounds, Lugogo. The 10-aside Guinness sponsored league is set to hold an actioned-packed day with crowd favorites Thazoballo taking on the Peaky Blinders in the first round of the semi-finals and Centurions going head-to-head with the Accumulators in the other main semi-cup finals with the four fighting for a place in the finals that will also be taking place that same day at 4pm. The day will also see second-tier semi-finalists, Takoradi take on Quaballo in the…

By Our Reporter  TV personalities, Gaetano Kagwa and Zahara Totto have landed a gig to host an upcoming show, we have learned. The two TV stars have been picked to host Uganda Breweries Limited’s “Brewed by Uganda” show, which comes as part of the company’s 75-year celebrations. Coming soon to TV and social media, it will feature a series of video documentaries that will see the hosts traverse the country in a coaster and speak to different people that have been part of UBL’s journey through the years. They will hold conversations with farmers, customers, business people, artists, media personalities,…

By Our Reporter MTN Uganda recently cut MoMo withdraw charges by 5.8%. On top of that, the company is also offering customers loyalty points through MTN Senkyu for any MoMo transactions which the customers can redeem for data, voice call minutes, to pay for goods and services using MoMo pay or for SMS. Stephen Mutana, the General Manager Mobile Financial Services at MTN explains more. Tell us about the New Mobile Money withdrawal fees reduction. We as MTN made a decision to reduce our Mobile Money withdrawal charges. This means that moving forward, our customers shall now withdraw money from…

By Our Reporter The National Social Security Fund (NSSF), in partnership with Mastercard Foundation, has announced a UGX 35 billion innovation programme to support local Small and Growing businesses over the next five years. The programme, dubbed the “NSSF Hi-Innovator” will also provide practical entrepreneurship training to more than 75,000 youth to enable them to address gaps in their businesses. NSSF Managing Director Richard Byarugaba said that the Fund is working to strengthen the existing entrepreneurship ecosystem through which entrepreneurs can be harnessed and supported to build profitable, sustainable and scalable businesses, as well as engaging the young people in…