Month: January 2020

Hope as Lango Cooperative Union gets new leaders

Maxwell Akora, the Maruzi Member of Parliament in Apac district has been elected Chairman Board of Directors of Lango Cooperative Union. Akora was elected unopposed at Union’s Special Annual General Meeting (AGM)…

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Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV)

On 31 December 2019, WHO was alerted to several cases of pneumonia in Wuhan City, Hubei Province of China. The virus did not match any other known virus. This raised concern because…

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Fires Threaten Atiak Sugarcane Farmers

AMURU: Members of Atiak Sugarcane Out Growers Cooperative in Amuru district are decrying the frequent outbreak of fires that have devastated their farms and left them counting huge losses. About 3 fires targeting…

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UWA Rewards Ex-Poachers with Domestic Animals

Kasese: Uganda Wild Life Authority has embarked on rewarding residents in wildlife conservation areas who denounced poaching, with domestic animals as a way of incentivizing even more people to abandon the practice.…

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NIRA to Authenticate Customer Data on Behalf of Banks

Bank of Uganda has announced it is moving to ease customer identification for all banking institutions under its supervision by implementing a digital identification application that draws on data from the National…

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Commercialize University Research and Innovations, Nawangwe Urges Government

Makerere University Vice-Chancellor (VC), Prof. Barnabas Nawangwe has called upon the government to invest more in safeguarding the University’s intellectual property, by patenting and commercializing its research and innovations. Speaking at Makerere…

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Is Soroti Fruit Factory Operating Below Capacity?

SOROTI: Fruit farmers in Teso sub-region are bemoaning insufficient demand for fruits from Soroti Fruit Factory which has made them that has left them stranded with surplus produce and huge losses. In…

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Bushenyi Residents Appeal to Nakalema over Collapsing SACCO

BUSHENYI: Residents of Ruharo parish, Bumbaire Sub County in Bushenyi- Ishaka municipality have appealed to the head of the State House Anti-Corruption Unit Edith Nakalema, over the looming collapse of their SACCO…

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Sembabule Youths Look to Value-Addition to Minimize Cost of Low Milk Prices

Youth in Sembabule District have embarked on a value-addition campaign to compensate for the decline in the price of milk, the main income earner for most cattle farmers in the district. Like…

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Museveni donates shs.100 Million to Gulu University Staff SACCO

President Yoweri Museveni has committed shs.100 million as a contribution towards supporting Gulu University Staff Savings and Credit Cooperative Organization (SACC0), urging the lecturers to diversify their sources of income through entrepreneurship.…

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