John Vianney Nsimbe

4 days ago | observer.ug | John Vianney Nsimbe

Villa will be returning to pre-season training on June 28. The purpose of this early return, considering that the 2025/26 Uganda Premier League (UPL) season does not kick off until mid-September, is to ensure that the team gets ample preparation, in order to have a good platform upon which to build a title-winning challenge for next season, according to coach Morley Byekwaso.

1 week ago | observer.ug | John Vianney Nsimbe

Just like the battle in Manila between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier, both deceased, 50 years ago, this season’s National Basketball League (NBL) women’s opening fixture between the JT Jaguars and JKL Dolphins was much anticipated, back in March. The Jaguars, who were the challengers, had lost to the Dolphins (defending champions) in the semifinals of the 2024 playoffs 1-3 on aggregate in a best of five series.

1 week ago | observer.ug | John Vianney Nsimbe

From 2000 runners last year, the Tusker Lite Mountain Rwenzori marathon of 2025 is expected to attract 6,000 this time. This was revealed during the launch of this event recently at the Sheraton hotel. Notably, this went a long way to highlight how the Rwenzori marathon is setting a new trend of runners, ready to partake of the whole experience. Professional athlete, Abel Chebet confirmed that he would be competing in this year’s edition because of how much he enjoyed the race last year.

2 weeks ago | observer.ug | John Vianney Nsimbe

Isaac ‘Zebra’ Ssenyange Jr. is already up and running for the second round of the Kampala Fight Night, due on July 6. The pugilist had a fairly successful maiden one on June 1 at Nakivubo Stadium. Considering how quickly he had it arranged, to have over 1,000 paid-up spectators must have been encouraging. Yet, for the 21-year-old boxer, Ssenyange is just starting on his dream of becoming a boxing trailblazer.

2 weeks ago | observer.ug | John Vianney Nsimbe

A total of 25 Rugby Cranes players will fly out to Southern Africa today for a couple of test games. First stop will be Namibia, before continuing to South Africa, where they will face off with a few clubs from the number-one-ranked rugby nation. This is all part of the team’s preparation for the Rugby Africa Cup (RAC) in July. Uganda will be hosting the RAC for the second successive year. Of the eight teams last year, Uganda finished fifth, which in a way was inconsequential.