Rukungiri: The chairperson of the Rukungiri Tree Growers and Timber Traders Cooperative Society Innocent Ninsiima has called upon tree growers and timber traders to join their cooperative as a way of ensuring value addition to their products. Speaking to our reporter on Thursday July 25, 2024 shortly after the association... Read More
Rukungiri: Leaders and residents of Nyakyishenyi sub-county in Rukungiri district have taken up the task of solving the problem of water scarcity which has hit their area after several attempts to get help from government remained unsuccessful. According to leaders, the only existing gravity flow scheme in their sub-county, which... Read More
Kanungu Resident District Commissioner Ambrose Mwesigye Amanyire has urged all money lenders to return people’s National Identification cards which they handed over as collaterals and find other ways of getting back their money or instead take their photocopies. RDC Mwesigye made the directive on Monday July 1, 2024 while in... Read More
Rukungiri: The Deputy Resident District Commissioner (DRDC) of Rukungiri Wilberforce Ongom Ahimbisibwe has issued a stern warning to defaulters of the Youth Livelihood Program (YLP) in the district. This comes days after Country FM aired an undercover research report revealing a slow pace of recovery of funds under the youth... Read More
A total of 98 shortlisted candidates in Rukungiri District will next month (July) sit for interviews that if passed will allow them to join the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF). The Rukungiri Deputy Resident District Commissioner (DRDC), Wilberforce Ongom Ahimbisibwe told our reporter that the interviews will commence on 1st July... Read More
Gulu: The Minister for Energy and Mineral Development, Ruth Nankabirwa has revealed that the government plans to enter into a partnership arrangement to operate the country’s national grid when Umeme Limited’s concession ends. Umeme Ltd, a private power distributor has been running a 20-year power distribution concession since 2005 with... Read More
Rukungiri: Members of Rukungiri taxi owners, drivers and conductors cooperative society limited have elected new leadership after six years of irregularities in their cooperative. The voting exercise which attracted 189 voters was on Wednesday June 12, 2024 conducted at All Saints Church Rukungiri in Rukungiri municipality and was presided over... Read More
Rukungiri: The Rukungiri district secretary for social services Claire Keledonia Bakironda has appealed to the residents of Rukungiri to embrace the upcoming National population and housing census. Keledonia was speaking to our reporter shortly after the district advocacy committee for the national population and housing census at the district headquarters... Read More
Rukungiri: Rukungiri municipality authorities on Monday April 8th 2024 signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Uganda Prisons Service (UPS) to receive 6 hectares of land where they will construct a modern lorry parking yard and cemetery. The said land is found opposite Taso Rukungiri branch in Kagunga cell,... Read More
Ntungamo: Millions of shillings were on Sunday 10th March 2024 lost in property after PK fuel station at Ikona trading centre in Kagongi parish, Rugarama sub-county, Ntungamo district caught fire. Eye witnesses say the vehicle that had brought fuel to refill the fuel station went ablaze and fire later spread to the surrounding... Read More