Yakubu Kitunzi
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Cooperatives & Communities
Kumi disburses PDM funds to beneficiaries
KUMI – Kumi District Local Government has disbursed Parish Development Model [PDM] funds to beneficiaries in six sub-counties. During the launch of the disbursement of the funds in Ongino and Kanapa sub-counties…
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News
Fighting poverty: Women urged to embrace govt programmes
TORORO – Women in Tororo district have been urged to embrace government programmes aimed at fighting household poverty in the country. The vice chairperson Tororo district, Rebecca Akumu, implored the women to…
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Development
Bukedi regional industrial hub ready to receive youth for training
TORORO – The deputy resident district commissioner of Tororo, Albert Amula has said Bukedi Regional Presidential Industrial Hub will open next week to receive trainees selected to underdo various practical courses that…
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News
Sironko older persons urged to form enterprise groups
SIRONKO – The Minister of State for Elderly Affairs, Dominic Gidudu Mafabi has urged the older persons in Sironko district to form enterprises groups so that they benefit from the special enterprise…
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Development
RDC directs schools to teach learners about PDM
NAMISINDWA – The Namisindwa resident district commissioner, Imran Muluga has directed Uganda National Teachers’ Union [UNATU] in the district not to hastate to teach learners about the Parish Development Model [PDM] initiated…
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Development
Namisindwa PDM beneficiaries pin parish chiefs over extortion
NAMISINDWA – A section of parish chiefs in Namisindwa district are facing allegations of asking for kickbacks from the beneficiaries of the Parish Development Model [PDM]. Joseph Mafabi, PDM beneficiary, told this…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Butaleja rice farmers ask govt to subsidise prices of machinery
BUTALEJA – Rice farmers under Doho Irrigation Farmers’ Cooperative Society [DIFACOS] in Butaleja district have appealed to government to subsidise prices of agricultural machinery, saying it will help them to boost production.…
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Agriculture
Minister Ngobi launches Shs 500mln model farm in Butebo district
BUTEBO – The State Minister for Trade and Cooperatives, Frederick Ngobi Gume has launched a Shs 500 million model farm in Kacuru Sub-county, Butebo district to help improve farming activities in the…
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Cooperatives & Communities
PDM: Tororo district officials warned against asking for bribes
TORORO – Tororo district officials have been warned against asking for bribes from the beneficiaries of the Parish Development Model [PDM]. Albert Amula, the deputy resident district commissioner Tororo said his office…
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Health
Govt launches larvicides to fight malaria in eastern Uganda
NAMUTUMBA – The Ministry of Health has introduced larvicides as an alternative in the fight against malaria in some districts of eastern Uganda. A larvicide is a type of insecticide used to…
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