Daily Monitor
Friday February 19 2021
Hajjat Medina Naham (right), the director for administration and finance in the NRM secretariat, talks to the Luweero NRM party councillors who turned up at Luweero Central Police Station on February 12. PHOTO/DAN WANDERA.
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A section of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party supporters in Luweero District have tasked the top party leadership to consider an immediate overhaul of the district party leadership following reports of embezzling funds .
Several leaders have been subjected to police investigation over Shs29m that was meant to facilitate the polling agents during the February 3 local council election.
MTV Africa and MTV Base have announced the return of the continental flagship award show in 2021 2 minutes read
MTV Africa and MTV Base have announced the return of the continental flagship award show in 2021. The Iconic MTV Base celebration, MTV Africa Music Awards (MAMA), which showcases the ultimate in African culture, music, and creativity, will be held in a re-imagined virtual format in partnership with Uganda, The Pearl of Africa on February 20
th 2021.
The MTV Africa Music Awards Kampala 2021 will be broadcasted on MTV Base (DStv Channel 322) and MTV (DStv Channel 130). The repeat show will also be aired on BET Africa, BET International and MTV channels across multiple continents as a one-hour MAMA-themed MTV World Stage feature.
Daily Monitor
Monday January 25 2021
People wave at President Museveni during his victory drive on Masaka-Kampala highway last Thursday. Critics say the victory drive was a testament of the President’s fading halo in Buganda as the population overwhelmingly voted his rival Robert Kyagulanyi. PHOTO/KELVIN AYUHAIRE
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President Museveni’s victory drive last Thursday from his countryside home in Rwakitura, Kiruhura District, through rural central Uganda en route to Kampala was, to political observers, a testament of his fading halo in Buganda as the population overwhelmingly voted his rival Robert Kyagulanyi, alias Bobi Wine. As he embarks on another five-year term later in May, he will need consummate political skills to win back the sub-region that is the economic nerve centre and whose resistance has historically turned into an encumbrance for leaders, writes
By Chinonso Ihekire 23 January 2021 | 4:25 am
Davido, Wizkid, Burna Boy, Simi, DJ Neptune Others Make List
It has been an array of nominations for Nigerian superstars at the forthcoming MTV Music Africa Awards (MAMA) billed to hold on February 20, 2021, in Kampala, Uganda.
Burna Boy has been nominated twice for the Best Collaboration category for his song Monsters You Made (featuring Chris Martin) and for his guest feature on Master KG and Noncembo Zikode’s Jerusalema Remix.
Interestingly, four Nigerian heavyweights are in the duel for the Song of the Year category: Davido for Fem, Simi for Duduke, Burna Boy for Monsters You Made, and DJ Neptune (featuring Mr. Eazi and Joeboy) for Nobody. They rival cross-continental powerhouses such as Diamond Platinumz, Master KG, Sauti Sol, among others, for the top prize.
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