Kampala, Uganda | URN | Police forensic and government DNA tests have confirmed that only four out of 25 individuals who claimed to be children of the late Kadongo Kamu legend Paul Job Kafeero are biologically related to the musician. The results were released on Thursday by Police Forensic Director …
Read More »OBITUARY: Rock and soul icon Tina Turner dead at age 83
“With her, the world loses a music legend and a role model,” her representative said Kampala, Uganda | AGENCIES | Tina Turner, one of rock and soul music’s greatest icons and comeback stories has died, leaving a seven-decade legacy that blazed a trail for divas like Beyoncé, Rihanna, Christina Aguilera, Amy …
Read More »Ghanaian president pays tribute to Brazilian football legend Pele
Accra, Ghana | Xinhua | Ghanaian President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo eulogized late Brazilian football legend Pele on Friday for his contribution to the sport. In a tweet on his official account, Nana Akufo-Addo described the late Brazilian footballer as an inspiration to generations of footballers. “The whole world of sports is …
Read More »Hazard wants to be a Chelsea ‘legend’ after hitting century mark
London, United Kingdom | AFP | Eden Hazard offered Chelsea fans hope his future may remain with the Londoners by stating he wants to become a club “legend” like former team-mates Frank Lampard, John Terry and Didier Drogba. Hazard scored his 100th and 101st Chelsea goals as Maurizio Sarri’s men …
Read More »Fall of the legends
From Uganda’s celebrated bankers to 2018 bummers Kampala, Uganda | HAGGAI MATSIKO | In 1991, some of the most powerful people in business and public office In Uganda from western Uganda jointly opened a bank. They called it the Kigezi Bank of Commerce with a commence capitalization of US$20 million. They …
Read More »Art legend Katarikawe dead at 80
His intuitive style on canvas earned him global fame as Africa’s Chagall Kampala, Uganda | DOMINIC MUWANGUZI | Jak Katarikawe, one of Uganda’s most celebrated artists who died recently at age 80, was in the early 1960s an ordinary, illiterate chauffeur of a Makerere University Kampala don; David Cook. But he …
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