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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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Cooperatives & Communities
Nwoya Farmers Turn To Cashew Nut Growing
NWOYA –Slumping crop prices have shifted farming in the northern district of Nwoya to the high-priced cashew nut. The district recently received 5,714 cashew nut seedlings from the government’s Operation Wealth Creation…
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Kwania boda operators Protest government tax
A government-pushed proposal to levy an extra tax of Shs 50,000 on motorcycles has touched off a fierce debate and protest among members of Kwania Boda Boda Savings and Credit Cooperative Society…
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Zombo signs EFOTI deal To improve tea yields
WEST NILE –Tea growing in the West Nile district of Zombo has got an accelerating effort that could boost local production. Zombo Tea Growers’ Cooperative Society and Edwin Tea Foundation Initiative, EFOTI,…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Emyooga accounts Frozen over cash theft
KIKUUBE – A slow-simmering scandal over the theft of Emyooga cash from a SACCO bank account in the western district of Hoima and the arrest of a local official there has brought…
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Tempers flare in Kwania over ‘emyooga money
The long-delayed release of emyooga funds, poverty eradication cash, in Kwania is fanning a wave of raging anger in the Northern District. Aduku Town Council leaders have asked the government to explain…
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Seventeen SACCOs pass fitness test, get registration certificates
SOROTI – Seventeen out of 18 Saccos in Soroti City East Division passed the fit-and-proper test and finally got their certificates of registration and bylaws from the registrar of cooperatives. The certificates,…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Long-dormant sacco in Masindi bounces back
A long-dormant savings and cooperative credit society has been revived. The Masindi Savings and Cooperative Credit Society Limited has been revived by members after a two-year lull. The SACCO membership comprises mainly…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Cooperative slashes fees to attract new members
To shore up its numbers, Lira Diocese Multipurpose Cooperative Society Limited has slashed its membership fee from Shs 50,000 to Shs 30,000 to encourage registration of new members with minimal fees. In…
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