Youth
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Agriculture
Catholic youth urged to embrace commercial farming after receiving tractor
SOROTI – The youth in Soroti Catholic Diocese have been urged to embrace commercial farming in a bid to fight poverty and unemployment. This comes after the youth received a tractor from…
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News
Skilling the youth: Bunyoro Zonal Industrial Hub passes out over 200
MASINDI– A total of 209 youth were passed out last Thursday after completing training in different practical courses at Bunyoro Zonal Industrial Hub, established to skill the youth in Bunyoro Sub-region. Upon…
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Link trained youths to Emyooga and PDM, Lira City boss urges govt
LIRA-Lira City mayor, Sam Atul has advised government to help the youths trained in vocational skills join Emyooga and Parish Development Model [ PDM ] programmes and support them with the tools…
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Education
Skilling the youth: State House to extend presidential hubs in all districts
LIRA – State House will in the near future extend zonal presidential industrial hubs to each district in the country so that disadvantaged youth can get vocational skills training. Speaking at the…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Former KCCA staff on spot over defrauding cooperatives
KAMPALA-Some of the retired staff of Kampala Capital City Authority [KCCA] are on the spot for illegally running offices to handle cooperative sector-related work, ending up extorting large amounts of money from…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Soroti Diocese to establish youth SACCO
SOROTI-The diocesan secretary Soroti Diocese, Rev.Samuel Ediau, has said the diocese is in advanced plans to establish a youth SACCO, having received seed capital of Shs 10 million from Vice President Jessica…
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Church leaders urged to embrace gov’t programmes
SOROTI-Church leaders have been urged to embrace government development programmes to boost their financial standing, other than waiting for the donations that are not forthcoming. The remark was made days ago by…
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News
“Imported” tomatoes cost West Nile Shs 15bln annually -report
ADJUMANI: Many of the tomatoes consumed in the West Nile region are procured from other regions in the country as farmers there have shunned the growing of the juicy sweet vegetables. According to…
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Village chairpersons receive bicycles
MASINDI-The Minister of Internal Affairs, Kahinda Otafiire days ago handed over 339 bicycles to the LCI and LCII chairpersons of Masindi Municipality and Masindi district to help in the mobilisation of citizens…
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Environment
Saving chimpanzees: Gov’t urged to be strict on conserving forests
KIKUUBE- Government has been told not to keep a blind eye to perpetrators who destroy forests in the country since among other roles, forests act as habitats for chimpanzees considered to be…
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