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Tororo authorities order vendors off the streets
Tororo Municipal Council authorities have ordered vendors to vacate the streets in a bid to keep the town clean and organised. The authorities who have embarked on a sensitisation drive in the…
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Development programmes: Bunyoro clerics urged to mobilise masses
The Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Thomas Tayebwa, has urged religious leaders in Bunyoro Sub-region to mobilise the faithful so that they participate in government’s development programmes aimed at eradicating household poverty as…
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Fort Portal City seeks Shs 60bln for urbanisation and climate change mitigation
FORT PORTAL – Fort Portal city authorities are targeting Shs 60 billion as part of a bigger loan which the Ugandan government is set to secure from the French Development Agency [FDA]…
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800 students of Lango College suspended over violent strike
LIRA– Students of Lango College in Lira City West division in Lira City have been sent home for one week after they held a violent strike which resulted in massive destruction of…
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Museveni wants taxes on sugar confectionaries dropped
KAMPALA– President Yoweri Museveni wants parliament to reconsider the Excise Duty (Amendment) Bill, 2022 before he can sign it into law. Museveni wrote to the Speaker of Parliament, Anita Among raising concern…
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Over 700 graduate with diplomas at UTC-Lira
LIRA- A total of 728 students of Uganda Technical College [UTC]-Lira have graduated with Higher and National Diplomas in five academic disciplines. According to the graduation list availed to parents and graduates,…
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Three Hoima Sugar Limited workers in trouble over assault of trader
KIKUUBE– Three Hoima Sugar Limited officials in Kikuube district are in trouble over allegations of assaulting a businessman. The victim, Fred Bakyali, 52, a sugarcane supplier for Kyejonjo Sugar Factory has lodged…
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First-ever gender strategy to be integrated into IMF activities
WASHINGTON, DC– Women around the globe will have better funding if we are to go by the first-ever strategy aimed at integrating gender into International Monetary Fund [IMF] core activities. Kristalina Georgieva,…
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Transport ministry seeks Shs 21bln for road safety
KAMPALA– The State Minister for Works, Francis Musa Ecweru, has said that his ministry requires more funding of about Shs21.5 billion for implementation of road safety programmes and activities. Ecweru was yesterday…
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High fuel prices: Ssewungu insists ministers Kasaija, Nankabirwa must appear before MPs
KAMPALA– Kalungu East Legislator, Joseph Ssewungu Gonzaga has criticised Finance Minister Matia Kasaija and his counterpart of Energy and Mineral Development, Ruth Nankabirwa for failure to appear before the committee and explain…
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