Jackie Lumbasi


Jackie Nake Lumbasi is a Kenyan media personality currently working in Kigali, Rwanda. She co-hosted The Big Breakfast Show on 91.3 Capital FM from 2009 to 2018 with a number of presenters including Gaetano Kagwa, Ramesh Gabalsing, Alan Kasujja, Marcus Kwikiriza and Oulanya as well as read the evening news on UBC in Uganda until 2014.
Lumbasi went off Capital FM airwaves in February 2018 and joined an off air position at the same station after a full reshuffle of the Big Breakfast show but shortly after that moved to Rwandan based Royal FM to do a morning Show in English Language alongside Kwizera.
She is very much known for her deep strong and husky voice and was mentioned among the highest paid radio presenters in Uganda.

Career

Lumbasi started her media career as a presenter at Power FM in Kampala. She then moved to Capital Fm Uganda where she started hosting the breakfast show in 2009 after the departure of Lilian Mbabazi until 2018 when the whole breakfast show was reshuffled. She revealed her departure in one of Flavia Tumusiime's video diaries which was shared on Flavia's and Capital FM's Facebook page. She immediately got an offer in Kigali Rwanda in March 2018 where she hosts the breakfast show with Kwizera. Jackie joked about a fact that she has worked with people whose names start with letter K, citing Alan Kasujja, Marcus Kwikiriza, Gaetano Kagwa and currently in Rwanda, where she hosts a breakfast show dubbed 'Kigali In The Morning,' together with Kwizera_Arnold.

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