Lira City
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Cooperatives & Communities
All Saints University Lango gets two tractors worth Shs 800m
LIRA – The government has donated two tractors to All Saints University- Lango to boost its agricultural training program as they plan to open a Faculty of Agriculture. The tractors worth Shs 800…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Lira Produce SACCO requests MSC to probe Emyooga
LIRA – Lira Produce Dealers Cooperative Saving and Credit Society in Lira City have expressed their frustration to access emyooga funds. The members numbering 180 say, the program which was targeting low-income…
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Cooperatives & Communities
A Shs35b World Bank road project starts in Lira
LIRA – The World Bank funded program of upgrading roads in Lira City under Uganda Support to Municipal Infrastructure Development (USMID) has kicked off after months of delay. The contract worth Shs 35b…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Lira City based Asian investors defrauded of Shs 9b
LIRA – Asian investors dealing in oil seeds and milling in Lira City have been defrauded of Shs 9b after supplying soya beans, sunflower and cotton to Agri Exim Uganda Limited and…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Lira City Vendors Shun Directive To Spend Nights In Markets
LIRA – Vendors selling foodstuffs in Lira City have disregarded a directive by President Yoweri Museveni to spend nights in markets as a measure to control the spread of Covid-19, as Uganda…
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Lira Official Interdicted Over Forgery
LIRA – Josephine Alobo, the District Commercial Officer (DCO) of Lira, has been interdicted for forgery as she uttered false documents of a Savings and Credit Co-operative (SACCO), receiving money by false…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Lira Vendors Protest Eviction
LIRA – Vendors in Lira City have continued to rally against their eviction from the streets. On June 17, city authorities resolved to suspend street vending because it draws crowds, which are…
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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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Emyooga Program Is Not Political –Lira RDC
LIRA –Appearing on 88.0 Voice of Lango FM, Lira Deputy Resident Commissioner rigorously fended off pointed allegations that the Presidential Initiative On Job and Wealth Creation, Emyooga program, was introduced to benefit…
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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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