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Daily Monitor Saturday March 13 2021 Summary Pius Lubwama, also known as Mbirozankya works with Buganda Land Board. He has made a name in the entertainment industry through emceeing at various functions Godfrey Lugaaju had a chat with him. Advertisement I am a Rotarian, social, pragmatic and I love serving humanity. When and how did you start emceeing? I started emceeing in my Primary Four. But I started commercial emceeing in 2013. During my Senior Six vacation, I attended a high school prom p...

Daily Monitor Saturday March 13 2021 In this file photo taken on October 07, 2018 Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini greets his supporters at The Moses Mabhida Football Stadium in Durban during Umkhosi Welembe, an annual commemoration of Zulu King Shaka ka Senzangakhona, a revered military strategist who united the tribes to form the Zulu Nation. PHOTO/ AFP Summary In August 1999 at the wedding of Kabaka Mutebi with Sylivia Nagginda, king Zwelithini attended a church service at Namirembe cathedral a...

Daily Monitor Saturday March 13 2021 Advertisement Mr Jonathan Mwesigwa’s missive titled ‘Buganda should uphold its people’s wishes’ in the Saturday Monitor of February 27 showed lack of understanding of the workings of Mengo. Mr Mwesigwa’s only point was to put the good name of Katikkiro Charles Peter Mayiga and the institution of the Kabaka into disrepute by making unsubstantiated allegations. He talked about corruption at Mengo in abstract terms failing, as expected, to point out a...

Daily Monitor Monday March 08 2021 A photo montage of President Museveni (left) and his son Maj Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba (right), commander of SFC. Summary President Museveni highlights efforts that government has taken to ensure a peaceful country “Therefore, traitors, local parasites and their foreign backers, be informed that the forces that liberated Uganda and have defended it ever since, are there and will always do their duty. When it came to two days before the voting day, about 24,000...

President Yoweri Museveni and the tale of two African stars Kanda Bongoman, Yvonne Chaka Chaka and President Yoweri Museveni [Photo: Courtesy] Celebrated South African musician and global children’s ambassador Yvonne Chaka Chaka was reportedly deported to South Africa and thus denied a chance to perform in a concert in Uganda to usher in the New Year over a different reason from visa issues. This happened as Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni was welcoming another African artiste, Kanda Bon...

Daily Monitor Sunday March 07 2021 Mr Jonathan Mwesigwa’s missive titled ‘Buganda should uphold its people’s wishes’ published by Saturday Monitor on February 27 showed a definite lack of understanding of the workings of Mengo.  Mwesigwa’s only point was to put the good name of Katikkiro (prime minister) Charles Peter Mayiga and the institution of the Kabaka into disrepute by making unsubstantiated allegations. Mwesigwa talked about corruption at Mengo in abstract terms failing as ex...

Daily Monitor Sunday March 07 2021 The roadblock was manned by the Uganda National Liberation Army (UNLA) soldiers.  Ssebuggwawo was a Democratic Party (DP) member representing Mubende West, Buganda region, in the 4th Parliament. On that fateful morning, according to a press release issued by DP, Ssebuggwawo left Kampala for Mubende while being driven in a Uganda Cooperative Savings and Credit Union car, a minibus registration number UXE 158. Ssebuggwawo was treasurer of the union.  Also in t...

Daily Monitor Sunday March 07 2021 After becoming the first White man to see the source of the Nile, John Speke recorded in his travel journal on July 28, 1862, that: “We were well rewarded, for the stones, as the Waganda (Baganda) call the falls, was by far the most interesting sight I had seen in Africa. “Though beautiful, the scene was not exactly what I had expected. Still it was a sight that attracted one to it for hours; the roar of the waters, the thousands of passenger fish, leaping...

Celebrating women of Uganda  in a Covid-19 environment Sunday March 07 2021 In the Church calendar, today is the 3rd Sunday in Lent, while in the secular calendar tomorrow, March 8, is International Women’s Day, observed as a public holiday in Uganda and many countries in the world. The theme for this year’s Women’s Day is, “Women in leadership: Achieving an equal future in a Covid-19 world” which is pertinent and timely for the times. This theme is aligned with the priority theme of...

Daily Monitor Saturday March 06 2021 Cakes and chapattis made out of bio-fortified orange fleshed sweet potatoes on display at a farmers’ field day. PHOTOs/Michael J Ssali Summary Joseph Kasekende who is now recognised orange fleshed bio-fortified sweet potato vines multiplier in the entire region takes credit for introducing bio-fortified orange fleshed sweet potatoes in the area. Advertisement Growing bio-fortified orange fleshed sweet potatoes is a major source of income and nutritional fo...