THE PAST WEEK left some celebrities celebrating with their friends, family and the entertainment community at large while others had a week to forget with their mind now left with bad memories. From the return of Sandra Teta to organising parties to the arrest of rapper Danny Nanone, The New Times looks at the showbiz stories that have been making headlines last week. Sandra Teta back in business A month has gone by since socialite Sandra Teta returned to her home country Rwanda to start a new life without the father of her two kids Weasel Manizo. The former beauty queen left Uganda with her children and travelled back to Kigali accompanied by her parents who had earlier gone to Kampala after photos surfaced on social media platforms showing a severely bruised face of Teta, with suggestions she had been battered. As she continues to settle in town, the socialite is back into business as she resumes her social parties and Century Park was her first stop after the place’s management approached her to host a ‘Come Back’ Party to celebrate her return in the game after the Ugandan nightmare. Teta’s parties rarely flop and Friday’s was no exception, a testament that she knows how to do this business. She is back to the scene as she anticipates to do what she does best. Patient Bizimana is a father Nine months after gospel musician Patient Bizimana and wife Gentille Uwera Karamira vowed to spend the rest of their life together, the couple last week welcomed a baby boy. The singer shared the news with her music supporters via social media on September 23, after his wife delivered the baby from the United States, where she currently lives. The Oda Paccy comeback Recording studios may have been missing Paccy’s powerful verses and lyrics but quitting music has never been an option for the female rapper. The singer is up for a comeback to the studio after two years without dropping a song with ‘Muri Njye’ her latest track from which, you can tell, she never runs out of inspirational verses. She told The New Times last week that she took a break from music to concentrate on her studies. The rapper was also one of the headliners of the first ever hip-hop cypher in Rwanda ‘Rap City Season 1’, a hip hop-inspired concert that brought top local rappers at the BK Arena last a week ago to celebrate Hip Hop music. A number of artists refuse to quit but still struggle to impress especially when they are up for a comeback. But will Paccy beat the odds and prove doubters wrong? Time will tell. Danny Nanone arrested While Paccy is on the right path to a comeback to the music scene and light the Hip Hop music, the past week has been bad news for her counterpart Danny Nanone who is detained for intentionally assaulting a 30-year-old woman with whom they reportedly have a child together. The renowned rapper’s arrest was confirmed Tuesday, September 20, by the Rwanda Investigation Bureau (RIB) spokesperson Thierry Murangira. The New Times understands that it’s not the first time Danny Nanone was arrested over an attempt to assault the same woman as their relationship has been on the rocks since 2016, when they were involved in tensions that also resulted in the arrest of the rapper. If found guilty, the ‘Ntagukoza Isoni’ hit maker could face a three to five-year prison sentence and a fine of not less than Rwf500,000 and not more than Rwf1,000,000.
