Hoima District
-
Cooperatives & Communities
Sugarcane Outgrowers Crying Foul
KIKUUBE – Complaints over mistreatment and missed payments are sparking friction between sugarcane outgrowers and their employer, Hoima Sugar Limited in the western districts of Kikuube and Hoima. Francis Isingoma alias Max…
Read More » -
Cooperatives & Communities
Struggling SACCO Appeals For Bailout
HOIMA – A struggling Teachers’ Saving and Credit Co-operative Society (SACCO) in Hoima Oil City is appealing for a government financial bailout – with good reason. The 175 member Hoima Municipality Teachers…
Read More » -
Cooperatives & Communities
SACCO Leaders Shun Management Training
HOIMA – Last week Hoima City and the district leadership scheduled two weeks of training sessions in financial literacy for all SACCO leaders that lack basic money management knowledge but surprisingly they…
Read More » -
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…
Read More » -
Cooperatives & Communities
Emyooga: Family Probed For Forgery
HOIMA – Accusations of forgery have roared to the forefront in the creation of three Savings and Credit Co-operative Societies (SACCOs) under the Presidential Initiative On Wealth And Job Creation, Emyooga. Imposters,…
Read More » -
Cooperatives & Communities
Anger In Hoima As Leaders Cling On To Emyooga Cash
HOIMA –As district authorities in Hoima continue to hold on to certificates of 62 savings and credit co-operatives (Sacco) denying them access to Emyooga cash for weeks, angry complaints are piling and…
Read More » -
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…
Read More » -
Cooperatives & Communities
Hoima Sacco, Government clash over Shs 50m loan
HOIMA – In a speech at the annual general meeting of the Hoima District Referees Saving and Credit Co-Operative Society (Sacco), Board Chairman Patrick Kunihira, publicly voiced his concern about a deliberate…
Read More » -
Cooperatives & Communities
New Sacco to give out Cheap loans in Hoima
The newly launched KASSOBA SACCO is on course to open with offers of cheap loans to members of Kabalega Secondary School Old Boys Association (KASSOBA). The official launch was on April 3…
Read More »