Lira district
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Cooperatives & Communities
Lira district offers UIA 300 acres of land to build an industrial park
LIRA – Lira District Local Government has offered 300 acres of land that was formerly Aler farm, in Ngetta sub-county, to Uganda Investment Authority (UIA) to build an industrial park. The Lira…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Older persons demand inclusion in the Parish Development Model
LIRA – Older persons in Lira district, have called upon the government for inclusion in the Parish Development Model and Emyooga programme. They say they are able and still economically productive more…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Agro-input Dealers Tap Into SMS Marketing
LIRA – Agriculture is among the most hit sectors since Covid-19 emerged two years ago. President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni recently announced a lockdown as a mitigating factor to curb the spread of the…
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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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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
Court Summons Civil Servants Over Forgery
LIRA – Grade One magistrate’s court in Lira has issued summons for three civil servants accused of forging an attendance list of the annual general meeting of Ayago SACCO. The summons were…
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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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Cooperatives & Communities
Lira DCO, four others remanded for forgery of SACCO documents
Court has remanded Lira District Commercial Officer (DCO), Josephine Alobo, and four others to jail for alleged forgery of SACCO documents contrary to section 34 of the Penal Code Act. Alobo appeared…
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Issuance of registration certificates delays Emyooga funds in Lira
The Presidential initiative on wealth and job creation (Emyooga)which was launched by President Yoweri Museveni two years ago has failed to kick-off due to complications involving the issuance of Registration Certificates to…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Lira district Employees’ SACCO revived after six-year hiatus
The Lira district Employees’ saving and credit cooperative organization (SACCO) has been revived six years after it fell dormant as a result of recurrent challenges. Established in June 2012 with the aims…
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