Business
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Cooperative Goes Into Money Lending
GULU – A savings and loans services association formed in 2019 by West Acholi Cooperative Union has soared to new heights of growth – through money lending of about Shs 10,000 to…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Youth told: Greed For Money Is Killing You
KWANIA – In a training meeting with youth leaders from Kwania District, Dr Joseph Odongkara Abraham, a former principal commercial judge in the UK, offered some honest advice: “You have remained poor…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Gulu Taxi Operators Protest High Taxes
GULU – Gulu Taxi Operators and Transporters’ Cooperative members staged a protest recently at the office of the city resident commissioner to draw attention to what they called high monthly taxes slapped…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Lira Main Market On Brink Of Ruin
LIRA – Business in the new Lira Main Market is limping and troubled, six years after the market was officially opened in 2015. Business in the market has edged down and traders…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Aduku Council Boss Warns Boda-Boda Riders
ADUKU – Obaya Keny James, the town clerk of Aduku Town Council, has told boda-boda riders that their life of pleasures must be tempered with caution. He said their knack for lavish…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Women Groups Applications For Cash Drop In Lira
LIRA – Applications for cash grants by women groups to Uganda Women Entrepreneurship Program (UWEP) are on the decline in the northern district of Lira, we are told. UWEP was launched in…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Kwania District Releases Emyooga Cash
KWANIA –After passing the multi-layered fit-and-proper test, at least four out of 36 Savings and Credit Cooperatives (SACCOs) in Kwania district have finally received Shs 30 million each under the Presidential Initiative…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Street Vending Empties Hoima Central Market
HOIMA – One-by-one, vendors are walking out of a fast emptying Hoima Central Market and pouring onto the crowded city streets to sell their merchandise easily. The abandoned lockups are mainly on…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Gulu City Traders Issue Ultimatum To Umeme
GULU – Gulu Market vendors have issued a two weeks ultimatum to electricity distribution company, Umeme: Stop the power outages or brace for street protests. Complaints have been piling but the latest…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Museveni gives truck, Money to Gulu sacco
GULU –President Yoweri Museveni has given a Fuso truck and Shs 20m to Gulu Main Market Vendors’ Cooperative Savings and Credit Society Limited –honoring a pledge he made three years ago in…
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