Politics
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Pay your loans, top govt officials warn Ugandans
KAMPALA– Ugandans who don’t want to pay back their loans are giving a bad image to the country, top government officials have said. The Finance Ministry Permanent Secretary and Secretary to the…
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Mbarara district officials tasked to refund over Shs 5mln
MBARARA- Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee [PAC] has grilled the Mbarara district Chief Administrative Officer Edward Kasagara [CAO] and Principal Human Resource Officer Allan Kagaba for causing the district a financial loss of…
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Oil companies take over land for absentee landlords in Bunyoro
HOIMA – Government has okayed the oil companies to use the land purportedly owned by absentee landlords in the oil-rich Bunyoro sub region. Through the Petroleum Authority of Uganda [PAU], government has…
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Museveni roots for 4-acre farming approach to boost household incomes
OMORO– President Museveni is rooting for small-scale commercial farming approach in order to boost household incomes in northern Uganda. This comes at a time when the Acholi Sub-region, according to a survey…
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Refugees demand for inclusion in govt programmes
LAMWO– Refugees settled in the three settlement centres in Lamwo district want to benefit from government programmes such as; Uganda Women Entrepreneurship program, (UWEP) and Youth Livelihood Fund, which are geared toward…
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Oil refinery project affected persons get land titles
HOIMA – 73 Kabaale oil refinery project affected persons [PAPs] whose families were displaced as government acquired land for the construction of the oil refinery in Kabaale Sub-county in Hoima district are…
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Banyankole managers arrested over misuse of union funds
MBARARA – Former Banyankole Kweterana Co-operative Union [BKCU] Chairman, Emmanuel Natukunda and his treasurer Andrew Kaggwa were Friday arrested and dragged to police to record statements over the alleged mismanagement of the…
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Vantage lawyers insist on selling properties of Bitature to recover U$34mln
KAMPALA– The battle to attach and sell some of the properties belonging to business mogul Patrick Bitature continues, Robert Kirunda whose law firm represents South African lenders- Vantage Mezzanine Fund II Partnership,…
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NRM urges religious and cultural leaders to help masses fight poverty
OMORO- Richard Todwong, the Secretary General of the ruling National Resistance Movement [ NRM ] Party, has interested the religious and cultural leaders in Omoro district and the entire Sub region to…
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Lack of tea policy affecting Uganda’s farmers
FORT PORTAL– Tea is Uganda’s third most important agricultural export earner after coffee and fish, but tea farmers say they need a policy to regulate the sector. It is one of the…
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