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1. Clubs share out sh800m
Uganda Super League teams will next week start benefiting from their lucrative broadcasting rights deal with Super Sport International.
Each of the 16 teams in Uganda’s top football competition will on Tuesday receive sh50m from the pay television channel.
The release is part of a sh2.6bn development fund to initiate the deal in Uganda. The money is aimed at boosting club welfare ahead of the kick-off of the new season.
Super Sportl will thereafter for five years annually inject $1m(sh2
2. Ssenyange is new captain
Middleweight Zebra Sennyange has been named captain of Uganda’s All Africa Games boxing team.
The national boxing team, in a meeting at Lugogo on Monday, agreed that the Lukanga Boxing Club fighter heads the Maputo bound side. “He is doing a good job and the boys respect him,” noted national coach Kent Musa after yesterday’s morning drills.Ssennyange (inset), who is one of the most experienced fighters on the nine man team, has enthusiastically taken up the assignment. “It is a sign of trust
3. Kasaija set for Sadi Onito Memorial
Jinja has been a tough turf for visiting golfers for the last five years but there could be no better opportunity to that jinx than the Sadi Onito Tournament that tees off today.
Grace Ocici, his twin brother Emma Opio, Ian Odokonyero, Fred Wanzala and Said Mawa have turned professional, opening up the amateur title of the tournament to ‘foreign invasion’.
Ex-professional Stephen Kasaija from Fort Portal, Entebbe’s Henry Lujja and Yasin Boy of Arua who rank highly in amateur should ride on
4. Govt Lifts Ban on Sugar Exports
The government has backtracked on its decision to ban exportation of sugar in a new statement announced by the Trade and Industry Minister, Ms Amelia Kyambadde. Ms Kyambadde’s statement came hours after President Museveni, in a communication issued by State House, announced a ban on exportation of sugar. The President, besides the ban, announced that the government would allow “controlled sugar imports of up to 40,000 tonnes for six months to address the current sugar scarcity”.
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5. Angola Vs Uganda
Onyango has not played a competitive game since Uganda Cranes’ must-win Nations Cup qualifier against Guinea Bissau on June 4. Neither has this gangly goalkeeper finalized details completing his move from South African sides Mpumulanga Black Aces to Mamelodi Sundowns.
The two would ideally present concerns of fielding a custodian that is not only short of match practice but with an unsettled mind.
However a thorough cross-examination of Denis Onyango’s fitness during the team’s first tra |
