Petroleum
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Energy & Mining
Gov’t renews Oranto Petroleum license to drill more oil wells in Albertine Graben
KIKUUBE-Oranto Petroleum Limited resumed its activities to explore the commercial viability of oil reserves established at Ngasa oil field in the Albertine Graben after the government renewed its license. Oranto Petroleum Limited…
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Finance & Banking
AfDB commits over Shs 1.1trn to renovate Kampala-Malaba railway line
KAMPALA-The African Development Bank [AfDB] Group is providing US$ 301 million [1.1 trillion] to overhaul the Kampala-Malaba Meter Gauge Railway [MGR] in Uganda. The railway line is part of the East African…
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Energy & Mining
Over 100 youth in Bunyoro qualify to train as truck drivers in oil and gas sector
HOIMA– 110 youth from Bunyoro Kitara kingdom have a reason to smile after they qualified to learn to drive heavy trucks that will be used in the oil and gas sector. The…
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News
Museveni tags teachers as ‘greedy’, priotises free and compulsory primary education
KAMPALA– President Yoweri Museveni is not happy that teachers in government-aided schools continue to damand salary enahncements and has instead acused them of being “greedy”. Instead, Museveni wants the Members of Parliament…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Oil refinery project affected persons get land titles
HOIMA – 73 Kabaale oil refinery project affected persons [PAPs] whose families were displaced as government acquired land for the construction of the oil refinery in Kabaale Sub-county in Hoima district are…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Uganda, South Sudan authorities concerned over continuous illegal cross border trades.
AMURU – Authorities in Uganda and South Sudan have raised concerns over the continuous illegal trade across borders in petroleum and drugs. For years, community members living along the border villages of…
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