Nation Media Group’s NTV is aggressively looking to fill out slots left by employees leaving the station for greener pastures. In the process, newer faces have cropped up.
Fashionista and vlogger Sharon Mundia popularly know as This Is Ess, has landed herself a new TV job at the station.
Excited
On Instagram, she shared the news with excitement.The show is set to start in a weeks time and will be called “Living with Ess.”
“Can’t believe I’m about to say this but… Starting 30th of July, I’ll be hosting a morning Lifestyle show on @ntvkenya called Living With Ess!!! she posted on IG.
“There is no emoji, no picture and no words that can bring to life the excitement I have for this next step in my life and career! It all still feels so surreal and my arms are bruised from all the times I’ve had to pinch myself these past few weeks! ??? God, I see you working your magic.”
Adding:
“Thank you. ?? And thank you @ntvkenya for believing in me! And of course thank YOU for choosing to be part of this journey – whether you joined 6 years ago when I started blogging or 6 days ago.❤ Hope you’ll tune in to the show! Save the date. 30th July. 8AM sharp. Monday to Friday. Aaaaaahhhhh! My heart is so full it could burst. ??✨ #LivingWithEss.”
Journalists in different media houses have been shifting lately as power struggles between top media companies has intensified.
Citizen TV has been poaching a bunch of presenters lately from other TV stations but also has lost a few of their top guys in the process.
Citizen TV and NTV have now released their official news lineup both on the same day leaving Kenyans arguing on which side they belong.
NTV Line up
Line ups
Ex-NTV news anchors Nimrod Tabu, Jamila Mohamed, Lulu Hassan’s hubby Rashid Abdhalla, former KTN Swahili news anchor Mwashirima Kapombe Swaleh Mdoe, Mwanahamisi Hamadi and the ever glowing Lulu Hassan made up the line up for Citizen TV.
NTV on the other hand has Salim Swaleh, Doreen Gatwiri, Nuru Abdulaziz as well as Kaltun Jama on their Swahili desk.
As you already know, Justine Nameere has been dealing with quite some issues and it is not just with Faridah Nakazibwe.
Her problems seem to just keep piling up. The latest reaching us is that the former TV presenter had a TV show to pitch to NTV but the station management had one thing for her after promises; a DENIED stamp.
The sad part of this is that Nameere, who has time and again boasted about being ‘self-employed and not interested in working for people anymore’, had earlier announced the programme on her social media and asked her fans to watch that space for it was soonest.
“I thank my Sweetheart Kagimba Mugimba Raymond for standing with me through the last crazy weeks. Ray has been part of finding a solution to this mess from the first day my accuser started tormenting me with these allegations……#DRINKFROMMYCUP kicks off any minute on NTV Uganda so keep glued! Be blessed y’all. ”. She wrote. Apparently the Serena-based TV station dropped the show, arguing that it fell short of their standards. Ouuuuuch! Sorry girl!
Justine Nameere is not going to let her name and fame be dragged in the soil. She has responded to accusations made by Faridah Nakazibwe.
JUSTINE’S POST
Faridah Nakazibwe I DO NOT DO MEN, I DO A MAN! I have one man, he’s the father of my children, he’s the only one am after every day! I can kill for him and
I have stood by him through thick and thick, he too has stood by me through thick and thin, our family, friends and work mates know that! I have no reason whatsoever to go after your man who I don’t know!
TODAY I was at home cooking for my family and our visitors, I wasn’t even online when phone calls started bombarding me and my man! “Go online go online” was what every one said. Ah I was reluctant because I thought it’s one of these bloggers writing some nonsense like they always do, which majority times I care less about. So I insisted to one of the callers “am busy kiki?” “Faridah Nakazibwe is saying you’re after her man”. Oh there goes the story my man and I have been dealing with for two years!
ABOUT HER FAMILY
My man and I have been together for 5 years and we have 2 great children together. Farida you started to harass us close to two years ago when I had just had our son. I was still at Kampala Hospital after a ceasor birth, when you started to send me insults and threats of how I should leave your man alone.
You had previously sent me messages saying “oh someone seems to have used a fake page to front you to malign me before my husband”. Because am not often online and then I was heavily pregnant, I didn’t take it as a big deal, I was even too pregnant tired to give it much thought.
FAKE PAGES
And even the number the fake page had fronted was a Warid code tagged to my MTN number i.e. a fake Warid number so I ignored it. But later when you sent insults and threats and you asserted “your husband says it’s me”, it started to get disturbing! I tried to explain to you in vain! My man personally called you on your phone, using his real number and challenged you to send us just one message coming from my number or facebook page or whatsapp number or a voice note coming from any of those platforms you failed to send one, all you claimed was “she uses fake pages”. “If they’re fake pages what makes you believe it is Justine behind them and how did you know they are fake pages?!” you insisted “she uses them and my man says it’s her”. The harassment continued and I took the matter on legally!
FARIDAH A COWARD
How many times did our Lawyers ask you to bring those messages and for your man to show up and show those messages right from the receiving phone and you never showed up and you claimed he’s not available. I filed a complaint with Lukwago and Company Advocates in 2016,
I filed another with Signum Advocates just last year when you relentlessly glued on me, asserting “your man says am sending him messages”. This time when you refused to come to them, I came with a Lawyer to NTV and asked to speak to you personally but you simply screamed at me and called me all sorts of things, I still failed to get angry at you because I couldn’t tell why you’re so convinced by what you call “fake pages” to be me simply because your man says it’s me.
The post that Nameere is reaponding to
I DONT KNOW YOUR MAN
That day we had moved with our Company Admin Assistant, Miss Sharon who also got so confused at why you believe it’s me. I decided to open a case with Kira road police and they called you on the next Monday to show up with the man you claim I send messages using fake pages, with his phone so that IT experts could figure this out once and for all, you said you would get back to us when he’s back from abroad. Even at Police I was with my man! We didn’t hear from you since then until now when you posted what you posted about me.
I don’t know your man, not by name or identity! I don’t know your life or background, you started anchoring at WBS when I was in primary so I don’t know any background of yours that you claim am telling your man about so as to tarnish your name! You claim am jealous of you but we are pursuing different dreams, so how could I be jealous of you?! Plus everyone who knows me and my man knows we are inseparable, we work together, we deal together, we are ever in each other’s space.
The man himself told you “whatever fake pages are doing to your marriage, Justine is not part of it”. You insisted it’s me. Now kindly answer the questions below:
QUESTIONS FOR FARIDAH
1. If both you and your man know that these are fake pages why do you claim they’re breaking your marriage to the point of you crying out to the public?! Why do you even give fake pages your time, of all things there’s to do by couples why give time to fake pages?!
2. If this is an issue that you could be this serious about why do you dodge the lawyers and Police yet you are here tarnishing someone’s name?!
3. Can you please produce any technical evidence that you have collected over the two years of harassing me, showing that your “fake pages” are mine?!
4. If you claim that your “fake pages” send my number as the number for your man to call on for more information, did you ever receive any of the messages you’re saying from my number?! Or did you and your man ever call my numbers and you heard me saying any shit to him?!
5. Recently Ministers’ phones and MPs’ phones were hacked in using facebook fake pages or shit like that, as a journalist working for a Top TV you have no single idea that there’s electronic fraud in the world?!
6. Did you ever open a harassment case against me, criminal or civil for the two years you have harassed me?! On the contrary you have dodged those I have opened!
FINALLY everyone has seen me speak my heart and mind to anybody using my own pages without fear or favour! Am not a fake page kinda person and they’re not in my world! If your man or whoever is fronting me to play on your mind and you have failed to be smarter than them, well tell them I won’t be the other fool! I will not let you or them or any body play with my name and the peace of my family.
ENOUGH is ENOUGH! Faridah Nakazibwe posted on Facebook Page. She seemed angry, and accuses Justine Nameera of attempting to bring her and her marriage down. Whatever NTV does to its presenters. We are yet to find out. For now, grab some pop corn because it is about to go down.
THIS GOES OUT TO YOU JUSTINE NAMEERE.
Well….silence is one of those tools I have used to win in life. I wish I could continue keeping quiet but…not with my name being pulled down by someone I have only met at a workplace before.
I don’t know much about you, Justine. Don’t care about your life. Infact, I don’t want to know you beyond what you did at NTV but.. Wallahi onnemeddeko, forcing me to bring your inbox dirt out. (I know you are going to deny it coz gal, you have mastered the art of FAKE)
Am not so sure what your cause is…I am only seeing a woman focused on bringing me and my marriage down.
FACEBOOK STAlKING
1. You have opened up over 10 fake facebook accounts(some opened up in my name, using my picture), writing to my husband, maligning me. At first, I thought it was a joke and I even personally texted you in your fb inbox, notifying you about someone using your mobile number as a contact for my husband to reach them. You denied….only for your continued texts to give you away.
Some of the posts that faridah says Justine posted
2. You have threatened us continously and I chose to treat you as a barking dog, hoping you would give up but…you just won’t stop!
PHONE HACKING
3. You have tapped my phones, hacked my fb and email accounts, you have offered my freinds money in exchange for information about me, stalked me on tv, office and along the way home, but stilled you can’t produce proof of my alleged infidelity.
4. There is proof that you are responsible for the bad press around me for the past over 1 and a half years and I ask myself:
Faridah exposes her inbox
Are you threatened by my little success? Do you need my help indirectly? Why are you so bitter? Are you an obsessed admirer of me? Why are you so bent at failing me? When do you ever get time for yourself and your family?
Anyway…..attached are just some of the hundreds of screen shots of your lugambo to my hubby via his inbox, whose access I have btw and….your latest fake account JOJO BELLA in my inbox before you took your desperacy to bloggers, pretending to be my freind’s wife…God!!. Did you even think of what that could do to his young family????
You can now pull out your tired phrase of…..”I am a lawyer and I need an apology or else this post should be pulled down before I sue you.” ?
Am doing this not because am a coward seeking attention but because I am sick and tired of being stepped on by you, Justine who thinks you can kill my name through a mere baseless chat to an unprofessional blogger who is so used to copy and paste. Do you know how many people you are hurting along the way?
VIDEO CALLS
Btw, I am deliberately staying away from releasing voice call records to my husband, pictures of your hot gals in Qatar with their mum on mission, your taped video at my freind Irene’s office just to get information about me…..am doing this because I still want to remain civil with you and not to directly involve those playing in the background… otherwise, your team of “wise” women will be exposed if you don’t leave me alone.
The IGP’s office is aware of this though I still asked them to keep it calm….simply to avoid drama.
Just days after Nation Media Group boss Linus Kaikai handed his resignation letter, another employee in management is following him at Royal media Services.
According to sources, Jamila Mohammed is officially the latest top management employee to call it quits at NTV, following a stream of other journalists who have ditched the station.
One of the oldest employees at Nation
The popular Swahili news anchor joined the station in 2002 and she was one of the longest serving journalist in the media company. Her former boss Kaikai left barely a fortnight before her leaving many asking what’s really going on at Nation.
Jamila was appointed Managing Editor of QTV Kenya in 2015 and was also currently the Manager of Programming and Content Development at NTV Kenya before her exit.
She’s set to replace Swaleh Mdoe at Citizen TV as managing editor for Swahili services for both the TV and radio( Radio Citizen). Mdoe, who is swimming in huge debt that has made him make to the headlines, has been demoted because of poor work ethics according to inside sources.
Estranged lovers Vince Musisi and NTV’s Josephine Karungi are battling over their divorce. The two have been living separately since 2016 but Vince claims to be the father to her recently born son.
As desperately as Josephine wants out, Vince is not willing to sign the divorce papers he has been served by her lawyers. This is the second time he has been served but declined to sign as he still has hopes of winning her back.
Alternative theories believe that Vince wants to punish Karungi and her family for mistreating him. It is claimed that Karungi’s family never liked him and encouraged her to dump him.
As we reported before, Vince is currently dating a new girl identified as Pesh Lucie. The two are said to have met at Mbonye’s church where Vince works as a producer.
There is no smoke without fire. A few months back, there were rumors that the NTV Uganda presenter, Raymond Mujuni was leaving the popular television station for NBS TV. He however denied the claims and said he was just going for a short leave.
I was duly granted leave for 30 days, which I am currently taking. Any discussion about my future will happen then,” said Mujuni
However, due NBS TV has not given up and our sources say that they continued luring the presenter, and finally he has made his intentions known. Raymond Mujuni is leaving NTV Uganda for NBS Television station.
Raymond
“I am leaving NTV proud of the work we have accomplished as ateam in finding the truth. I hold my head high for the opportiunity we have had to express the voice of the voiceless, to use our stories in the search for justice and for the balance and editorial fairness we have accorded everyone, the very basic of journalism.” recently said Mujuni.
He is however not the first person to switch from NTV to NBS, and others include; MC Kats, Rukh-shana Namuyimba, Wisdom Kiyonga, Solomon Sserwanja and Dean Lubowa Saava.
Good luck with the new team Raymond. They say that change is always for the better.
