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30 Ways to Say Happy New Year to Your Loved Ones

30 Ways to Say Happy New Year to Your Loved Ones Dec 29, 2021Read original Ran out of creative ideas on how to wish Happy New Year to your family and friends? Or maybe, you’re just not the most verbose and smooth-talking person in your social circle but still want to surprise your loved ones with a beautiful greeting this year. Whatever the case may be, we’ve got you covered! Below, we prepared a list of 30 New Year’s wishes for all the people in your life that matter - from new acquaintances and colleagues to your closest friends and significant other. Embrace the New Year with an open heart and a fierce spirit. Cheers to new horizons! Counting my blessings and wishing you more, I hope you enjoy the New Year in store. Wishing you 12 months of success, 52 weeks of laughter, 365 days of fun, 8,760 hours of joy, 525,600 minutes of good luck, and 31,536,000 seconds of happiness. New is the year, new are the hopes, new is the resolution, new are the spirits, and new...

I am not here to fight Sheebah, new TNS singer Rahmah Pinky says

I am not here to fight Sheebah, new TNS singer Rahmah Pinky says Dec 30, 2021Read original Team No Sleep (TNS) new singer Rahmah Pinky has opened up on her voice's similarity to that of Sheebah Karungi, who seemingly left the label a few weeks ago. It is not clear whether indeed Sheebah moved on from the record label, for she made a grand entrance in a TNS van owned by Jeff Kiwa in Mbarara recently, where she performed at the Nile Special “Unmatched in Gold” campaign at Vision Empire. "I actually didn't know that I sounded like Sheebah. I was just given a song, which I voiced in the studio and everyone tells me that I sound like her," Pinky said. The 17-year-old has released her first song with TNS and got people talking. Some people claim that she was brought in to shut down Sheebah since her voice resembles hers. She dismissed such claims. "I am not here to fight Sheebah. She's a legend and I respect her for that. I have also never met her perso...

TODAY IN HISTORY: Karuma search continues

TODAY IN HISTORY: Karuma search continues Dec 28, 2021 Read original Atleast 10 people were missing and feared dead after the Contour Bus plunged into Karuma falls on the Gulu-Kampala highway. A combined rescue team of the Police and the army searched the fast moving waters in an attempt to pull out the submerged wreckage.

Kagadi Parents tasked to spare good moments with their children

  Kagadi 29 Dec, 2021 Author  Akankwasa alphonse  Believers have been tasked to welcome Jesus righteousness and spare good moments with their children through educating them how they can overcome satanic temptations in order to be concerned believers in laying strong church foundation. This call was made today afternoon by Rev Fr Kato Joseph during the sermon on holly innocence day celebrations (Ekiro Kyabaana) at St Mary’s Catholic Church in Kagadi Vicariate Hoima Diocese. He challenged parents especially step mothers to stop neglecting children but rather start teaching and advising them how to behave morally. Meanwhile Monsyl Peter Kabelenge the episcope vicar Kagadi vicariate speaking to journalist after the church session argued parents to prepare their children ahead of school reopening and stop harassing them in case of any mistake. He also tasked children to respect parents and utilize education chance given by their parents in order to become a responsi...

Bomb Materials, Solar Panels Found at Captured ADF Headquarters

Bomb Materials, Solar Panels Found at Captured ADF Headquarters Dec 27, 2021Read original Ugandan and Congolese forces have recovered arms and bomb-making materials from the main headquarters of terrorist group, Allied Democratic Forces (ADF). Uganda’s Defence Ministry on Christmas Day announced that UPDF mobile forces together with the FARDC assault force, had “finally captured the much revered ADF/ISCAP camp, Kambi Ya Yua” on the morning of December 24. “This camp was a host to military training and Islamic radicalization activities as evidenced by the literature found, bomb making materials and one damaged Laptop computer,” said the Defence Ministry. Other pieces of evidence obtained by the allied forces include 129 live rounds of PK machine gun loaded in their chain, 155 live rounds of Sub-machine gun ammunition, 3 solar panels and enemy strength registers. Kambi Ya Yua, a stronghold of ADF/ISCAP terrorists, seating on eight acres of Virunga forest land, is estimated to...

Pregnant woman among 15 charged for Uganda attacks

Pregnant woman among 15 charged for Uganda attacks Dec 25, 2021 Four people were killed and more than 30 injured after three suicide bombings in Kampala in November A court in Uganda has charged 15 people – including a pregnant woman – with terrorism over their alleged role in several attacks in the country. Most of the defendants were accused of being members of Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a militant group which is part of the Islamic State group. The authorities say the group is behind four recent bombings. Uganda launched a military offensive against ADF in the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo. The militant group was formed in the 1990s by Ugandans disgruntled with the government’s treatment of Muslims, but it was routed and removed from bases in the western mountainous Rwenzori region, where its fighters had been attacking villages and torching schools in the early 2000s. Attacks in October and three suicide bombings in the capital, Kampala, in November ala...

South Africa's Archbishop Desmond Tutu dies at 90

South Africa's Archbishop Desmond Tutu dies at 90 Published Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace prize laureate who helped end apartheid in South Africa, has died aged 90. President Cyril Ramaphosa said the churchman's death marked "another chapter of bereavement in our nation's farewell to a generation of outstanding South Africans". He said Archbishop Tutu had helped bequeath "a liberated South Africa". Tutu was one of the country's best known figures at home and abroad. A contemporary of anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela, he was was one of the driving forces behind the movement to end the policy of racial segregation and discrimination enforced by the white minority government against the black majority in South Africa from 1948 until 1991. He was awarded the Nobel prize in 1984 for his role in the struggle to abolish the apartheid system. Tutu's death comes just weeks after that of South Africa's last apartheid-era presid...

Men Who Murdered Boda Boda Rider By Running Him Over Multiple Times To Rot In Jail

Men Who Murdered Boda Boda Rider By Running Him Over Multiple Times To Rot In Jail Dec 22, 2021Read originaluk KEY POINTSuiu Two men accused of killing a boda boda rider in November 2018 in Siaya by running him over multiple times were sentenced to life imprisonment. The deceased and his girlfriend Mercy Akinyi had gone out to have some fun. At around midnight things took a turn and the couple quarreled after which Akinyi took her leave and boarded a Toyota Hilux pick-up truck that had been parked outside which left immediately. Two men accused of killing a boda boda rider in November 2018 in Siaya by running him over multiple times were sentenced to life imprisonment. The boda boda rider, identified as Ronald Otieno, met his death when he went after the accused persons who had taken off with his girlfriend in a pick-up. The accused, Benjamin Odhiambo and Vincent Owuor, had however pleaded not guilty to the murder of the boda boda rider but Hon Justice R. E. Aburili of the ...

Ugandan Parliament passes Income Tax Amendment Bill

Ugandan Parliament passes Income Tax Amendment Bill by akankwasaalphonse8@gmail.com     December 15, 20 21 The Ugandan Parliament yesterday Tuesday 14 th  December passed the Income Tax (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill, 2021. The bill provides for windfall tax and limitations of deductions on petroleum operations. Presented by Minister of State for Finance (General Duties), Henry Musasizi, the bill was passed during plenary sitting that was chaired by Deputy Speaker, Anita Among. “I beg to report that the committee of the whole House has considered the bill and passed it without amendments,” presented Musasizi. Keefa Kiwanuka, the Chairperson of the Committee on Finance, said that the bill did not require any amendments. “The committee has considered the bill and we found it straightforward. We recommend that it is approved as presented by the Executive,” said Kiwanuka. ”All provisions of the bill are a result of the signed agreement where the country committed itself.” Said the ...

I "Don’t Know how I got infected with HIV” – MC Kats Opens up

I "Don’t Know how I got infected with HIV” – MC Kats Opens up Nov 30, 2021 Television personality and renown events emcee, Edwin Katamba popularly known as MC Kats has revealed that he has no idea of how he got infected with the virus. The emcee, who publicly revealed that he was HIV positive two years ago has been working relentlessly to condemn society’s stigma against people living with HIV . Speaking in a recent interview, Kats said that he was talking to his children recently about his sickness and they asked him how he got infected. Kats says that he had no reply because he does not remember how he got the virus. “My children have grown, one is making 15 the other one is already 18yrs, I jus told them Daddy got sick, he’s on medication and he will be fine, don’t think he’s gonna die, just make sure u never get sick. When they asked how did you get it or who? That I couldn’t answer because I also don’t know how I got it…”