By Samuel OnenKitgum boda boda association members today 30th January,2023 held their election after the services of the previous leaders was earlier called off by the Resident District Commissioner last year due to incorporation.Stage masters of different sub-counties gathered at Kitgum boma ground to elect their district representatives that included …
Read More »FOOD PRICES FALL IN PADER DISTRICT AS HARVEST PEAKS
BY KASLINE GLADYS LAKAREBER PADER: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2022 The prices of leading food crops have gone down in Pader district as harvest season peaks. Mark Ojok, a farmer based in Pagwari village Pader town council, attributed the dramatic fall of prices to dominance by middlemen and absence of farmers’ …
Read More »Government medical stores worth over 700million impounded in private clinic, Kitgum
By Samuel Onen and Edward AkakiA joint operation between the police and the National Drug Authority surveillance Unit yesterday 24th October, 2022 recovered medical stores worth over 700million from Akfrank medical clinic located in Monbunyu, Padwong Division, Kitgum Municipality.The clinic that belongs to a one Akena Robert was found with …
Read More »PAKWACH RESIDENTS TURNING TO SOLAR AS ALTERNATIVE SOURCE OF ENERGY DESPITE SUPPLY, QUALITY CONCERNS
BY ACHORA GEOFREY PAKWACH: MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2022 In the rural communities of Pakwach district, adoption of solar power is slowly taking root, supplementing wood fuel and charcoal, the primary sources of household energy. Residents say this is because many private players in the solar energy sector are promoting the …
Read More »CREATING A NEW FOREST IN MBALE, UPDF AND GREENING UGANDA CAMPAIGN TARGET 5000 FRUIT AND INDIGENOUS TREES
By Goodluck Musinguzi As part of Uganda People’s Defence Forces9UPDF) 2022 Tarehe Sita operations on the Greening Uganda Campaign, more than 5000 fruit and indigenous trees will be grown in this October rainy season. Tree seedlings were loaded and delivered to Elgon regions on 21st October 2022. “We launched the …
Read More »Nakatunya Residents Decry over garbage dumping.
17, October 2022 By Alfred Atwau The Residents of Nursery cell, Nakatunya Sub County in Soroti City have raised complaints over the rampant garbage dumping in the community. This was happened Monday 17th October 2022 morning at Nakatunya main market where members were raising their complaints to the market authority …
Read More »Security Recover 100m From Pallisa
17, Oct 2022 By Lawrence Okwakol The security team chaired by Magidu Dhikusoka the Pallisa resident district commissioner has so far recovered valuables worth 100million. While addressing a press conference over the weekend, Dhikusoka said the security agents collaborated with their counterparts from other districts after a crackdown of 10 …
Read More »Wazalendo SACCO to support Emyooga &PDM SACCOs in Karamoja
By Eodu Timothy The management and board of Wazalendo SACCO (WSACCO) have pledged total support to the various SACCOs under the Parish Development Model (PDM) and Emyooga in Karamoja Sub Region.This was during the launch of it’s sixth cash Branch in Moroto district on Saturday 15th/ October 2022.According to the …
Read More »UNDERSTANDING THE LAND DISPUTE AFFECTING THE WADELAI IRRIGATION SCHEME IN PAKWACH
BY GEOFREY ACHORA PAKWACH: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2022 Forty-six kilometers north-west of Pakwach town along the Pakwack-Pawor-Arua road, the landscape was changing 12 months ago. Mushrooming office buildings, storage facilities, artificial reservoirs and dams and secondary water canals were turning a hitherto 1,000 hectares of underutilized land into what is …
Read More »Pallisa Leaders Resolve to Regulate Labour Export to the Middle East
Thursday 13, Oct 2022 By Lawrence Okwakol-Pallisa The Kamuge town council local leadership in Pallisa district on Tuesday afternoon resolved to suspend the recommendation of youths going to Middle East for domestic employment (kyeyo). The leaders reached to this resolution due to the rampant sale of land by most parents …
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