Yakubu Kitunzi
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Cooperatives & Communities
Mbale youth, women urged to join SACCOs
MBALE – The youth and women in Mbale district have been advised to join SACCOs to develop a savings culture and accumulate wealth in the years ahead. The Bungokho South County Member…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Over 160 PDM SACCOs in Namisindwa district to receive funds
NAMISINDWA – Namisindwa district has started the disbursement of the Shs 5.2 billion to 163 SACCOs registered under the Parish Development Model [PDM]. The Namisindwa resident district commissioner, who is the chief…
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Cooperatives & Communities
MP Ekanya to opposition: Money knows no colour
TORORO – Tororo County North Member of Parliament Geoffrey Ekanya has asked members from the opposition parties to rally behind the implementation of government programmes meant to improve the lives of the…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Butaleja rice farmers urged to join SACCOs
BUTALEJA – Rice farmers in Butaleja district have been urged to join Savings and Credit Cooperatives Organisations [SACCOs] if they are to improve their household incomes. The manager Doho Farmers’ SACCO in…
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News
Kumi PWDs receive Shs 70mln from Gender ministry
KUMI – Fourteen groups of Persons with Disabilities [ PWDs ] in Kumi district have received Shs 70 million from the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development’s National Special Grant for…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Minister Musenero urges Butebo farmers to embrace PDM
BUTEBO – The Minister for Science, Technology and Innovation, Dr Monica Musenero, has urged residents of Butebo district in eastern Uganda to embrace the Parish Development Model [PDM] in the fight against…
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Health
Lack of awareness aiding spread of TB in Butaleja
BUTALEJA: Health experts in Butaleja district have said there is need to create community awareness in the district in order to curb the spread of Tuberculosis [TB]. Dr. Siraji Kizito, the Butaleja…
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Environment
Eight arrested over wetland degradation in Kumi
KUMI-Authorities in Kumi district have arrested eight people over continued encroachment on Oladoto Wetland. During an operation on Friday, the district security team discovered that the suspects had established gardens in the wetland…
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Cooperatives & Communities
PDM: Kibuku parish chiefs to be probed over extortion
KIBUKU – The Parish Development Model [PDM] deputy national director, Jovrine Kaliisa Kyomukama has directed the office of Kibuku chief administrative officer to investigate some of the parish chiefs in the district…
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News
Over 900 lower council chairpersons in Tororo receive bicycles
TORORO– A total of 990 LCI and LCII chairpersons from Tororo district and Tororo Municipality have received bicycles, from the government as pledged by President Yoweri Museveni years ago. Handing over the…
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