ENTERTAINMENT

  MultiChoice Uganda to offer training, cash and other prizes for 2021 film festival participants Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  The Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) has together with MultiChoice Uganda and other partners launched the 8th edition of its five-day film festival with a cinema opening event at Acacia Mall …

Socialite and content creator Nadia Mbire will be battling it out for the top influencer title on The Next Big Trender, a reality TV show Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kampala socialite Nadia Matovu will battle for the top influencer title on The Next Big Trender reality TV show that premiered on 19th March …

Los Angeles, US |  THE INDEPENDENT & XINHUA  | Nigerian singer Burna Boy win his first ever Grammy under the “Best global Music Album” category for the “Twice As Tall” 2020 project, at last night’s 63rd Grammy Awards main event. Meanwhile, women dominated the 63rd Grammy Awards Sunday as Taylor Swift won her third …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The sixth season of popular singing competition show, Nigerian Idol, premieres Sunday, March 14. The much-anticipated show  on DStv Channel 198 and GOtv Channel 29 will open with a special airing of the most entertaining moments from the auditions which took place late last year. …

Amuru, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  External Security Organisation–ESO and the Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence –CMI have joined the probe of local singer, Ameria Nambala, who was found in possession of 48 passports whose owners cannot be traced.  The artist was arrested from Sheraton Hotel in Kampala on Friday by plain-clothed …

  Los Angeles, US | THE INDEPENDENT | American socialite Kim Kardashian, mother of North West, Chicago, Psalm and Saint, has filed for divorce of their father, rapper Kanye West. The superstar is reported to be asking for joint legal and physical custody of the kids, after seven years of …

Kampala, Uganda | Isaac Khisa |  ShowMax, the Multichoice owned TV streaming service, will be charged half price to all DStv Access, Compact and Compact Plus customers when they add the streaming platform service to their DStv bill.  However, the company’s premium subscribers will access ShowMax free of charge, potentially providing customers with …

Kampala, Uganda |  JULIUS BUSINGE  | DStv has announced  new and pioneer Pan-African lifestyle channel, Honey, that will beam across the continent. Joan Semanda Kizza, the public relations and communications manager and Collins Asiimwe, the head of marketing at MultiChoice Uganda told reporters in Kampala that it would go live February …

Johannesburg, South Africa | THE INDEPENDENT | South African based Ugandan socialite Zari Hassan is at it gain, teasing her fans by posing in a Valentine’s Day post on social media with yet another boyfriend. “Happy Valentines day 💘,” was her message, in a photograph with a one “Dark Stallion”, as …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  MultiChoice Uganda announced this morning that Pearl Magic is expanding and has added a new channel, Pearl Magic Prime to its stable. The channel went live today, February 8, 2021. Pearl Magic Prime is a channel on DStv that’s is owned by the …