Author: Solomon Katushabe

Veteran Socialite and Tanzanian Playboy Diamond Platinumz Baby Mama Zarinah Tlale a.k.a Zari Hassan a.k.a the Bosslady will remain a Tourism ambassador for Uganda even with the newly announced ambassador Eddy kenzo on board. This is according to the State Minister for Tourism Hon. Godfrey Kiwanda Ssuubi who on Tuesday announced Edrisah Musuuza (Eddy Kenzo) as the new Uganda Tourism ambassador when his contract as the Kenya Tourism ambassador expired. The role was recently held by Zari whose reign as ambassador raised several questions regarding UTB’s criteria of picking their ambassadors. Last year in January, the role was handed over…

Victoria Rubadiri, a Kenyan investigative reporter and TV news anchor is the 2020 winner of the celebrated BBC World News Komla Dumor Award. Ms. Rubadiri, a presenter with Citizen TV in Kenya, is according to reports, “a multifaceted journalist in East Africa and has interviewed some of the leading names in politics and current affairs.” Following in the footsteps of Solomon Serwanjja (Uganda), Waihiga Mwaura (Kenya), Amina Yuguda (Nigeria), Didi Akinyelure (Nigeria) and Nancy Kacungira (Uganda), Ms Rubadira is the second Kenyan to win the award and the 5th East African. According to initial reports from the English Broadcasters, Rubadiri…

Celebrated and Veteran Kadongo Kamu singer Willy Mukabya has made a strained appeal to President Museveni for financial support after battling poverty for a while now. Mukabya, who recently turned to boda boda riding to make a living, said in his cry out that he is going through financial distress and is a very sickly man.  While recalling his glorious days in a video that Our Reporter has watched, Mukabya shed tears while talking about his strained relationship with President Museveni.  “I fought in the NRA bush war that brought President Museveni to power. But I have never benefited individually…

President Museveni has, in a tweet, taken a very unexpected jab at Kampala Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago while welcoming former Deputy Lord Mayor Sarah Kanyike to Cabinet. President Museveni first recommended Ms Kanyike’s appointment as one of the directors at the Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) before he later appointed her Minister of State for Disabilities and the Elderly. All this was while she was still serving as a KCCA Lord Councillor and Deputy Lord Mayor to Mr. Lukwago. In retaliation, Lukwago gave her a 24 hours ultimatum to come out about her position on the matter – whether she…

Pictures of Tanzanian football fans in the Benjamin Mkapa Stadium enjoying a football game without any regard to COVID-19 Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) have broken the internet. The Ugandan Wire understands that the game, that was played yesterday the 22nd of August 2020 was between Simba FC and Vitalo FC and ended 6-0 in favour of the former. Tanzanian President John Pombe Magufuli, shocked the world when he protested the virus in April saying there is no coronavirus in Tanzania and suspended all COVID-19 tests. He encouraged the people to go to Churches and pray because according to him, COVID-19…

The ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) national delegates conference held sessions at each of the district headquarters in Uganda to approve the endorsement of President Yoweri Museveni as the party national chairperson and presidential flag bearer for the 2021 Presidential election. The same conference attracted a similar endorsement for Al-Hajji Moses Kigongo as the party first national vice chairperson. The source of the drama however, was the election of the second national vice chairperson (female) and the six regional vice chairpersons for Karamoja, eastern, northern, western, central and Kampala region. The CEC election attracted a total of 26 candidates all…

Homeboy Joshua Cheptegei has today, Friday 14th August 2020 broken one of the longest standing world records in track and field on after running 12:35.36 for 5000 meters in Monaco in the Diamond League. Ethiopia’s Kenesisa Bekele’s long-standing world record was 12:37.35 and was set in 2004. Cheptegei, whose eyes were set on the prize put up a most stellar performance maintaining a 60-second per 400 meter lap average for over three miles. The world champion ran 59.97 and 59.64 for his last two laps. The 23 year old made his debut with the bigger boys in 2017 during the…

A section of voters in Sheema Municipality have rejected knickers provided by former Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) Commissioner Dicksons Kateshumbwa’s campaign team insisting that they create burning sensations in their privates. The voters, appearing before the media, called out to Katesh to go back and collect the panties because they’re burning their privates – a feeling they claim they don’t feel when they wear other knickers. One of the voters that our snoops in Sheema identified as Maggie was bitter that the aspirant was giving out knickers to youths instead of empowering them to be better in life. “My vote…

The former board’s term of office expired on June 30th, 2020.

The congregation and Church leadership at St. Peter’s Church Ndeeba woke to bewilderment this morning after their place of worship was demolished overnight. According to initial reports, a group of people that claim to be the rightful owners of the land where the church was built took advantage of curfew and brought the 40 year old structure to the ground completely. Bishop Wilberforce Kityo Luwalira of Namirembe Diocese has expressed disappointment in the manner that the said “owners” brought down the land. “The attack on the house of God was done during the lockdown and during curfew time by people…