Peter Kugonza
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News
Hoima district fails to recover over Shs1bln from youth
HOIMA – Hoima district authorities have failed to recover over Shs 1 billion from the youth who benefited the Youth Livelihood programme. Anthony Ayesiga Hoima district labor officer and focal person for…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Wealth creation: Bunyoro leaders urged to mobilise communities utilise land
HOIMA – Local leaders in Bunyoro Sub-region have been challenged to mobilise locals, especially the youth, to utilise their land for agricultural production if they are to create wealth for themselves. While…
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Energy & Mining
Tilenga oil project: Gov’t gives PAPs one-month ultimatum to accept cash
BULIISA – Over 50 Project Affected Persons [PAPs] in Buliisa district who have not taken up their compensation have been given one-month ultimatum to take up the money and vacate the land…
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FPU burns illegal gear on Lake Albert
HOIMA – Fishing communities on the shores of Lake Albert in Hoima district are crying foul following the recent burning of their fishing gear and immature fish. The fishing equipment and about…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Minister Byamukama launches disbursement of PDM funds in Hoima City
HOIMA – Fred Byamukama, the State Minister for Works and Transport has warned the beneficiaries of the Parish Development Model [PDM] in Bunyoro Sub-region against mismanagement of the funds extended to them,…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Hoima City: Implementation of PDM messed up
HOIMA – Implementers of the Parish Development Model [PDM] who include parish chiefs, town agents, and commercials officers in Hoima City have been blamed for the slow progress of the government programme…
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Environment
Bunyoro-Kitara Kingdom petitions minister over land dispute with Hoima Sugar Limited
HOIMA – Bunyoro-Kitara Kingdom [BKK] officials are in disagreement with Hoima Sugar Limited over land measuring five square miles of land located in the sub-counties of Kyangwali and Kabwoya in Kikuube district.…
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Prices of foodstuffs rise in Kikuube district
KIKUUBE – Residents of Kikuube district are grappling with high prices of beans and posho arising from the low supply of the foodstuffs. Bosco Sebazungu, a resident of Waraganza trading center in…
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Agriculture
MAK conducts research to move rice farmers from wetlands
KIKUUBE– Makerere University researchers have established a research project in the Bunyoro Sub-region aimed at stopping farmers from growing rice in wetlands and river banks. Dr. Patrick Musinguzi, the principal investigator of…
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Confusion as minister halts surveying of Omukama Iguru’s land
KIKUUBE – The State Minister for Lands, Sam Mayanja has stopped the exercise of surveying a big chunk of land in Kikuube district, allegedly belonging to Omukama of Bunyoro-Kitara Kingdom, Rukirabasaija Agutamba…
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