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Meet Gerald Karuhanga MP of Ntungamo

Meet Gerald Karuhanga MP of Ntungamo

KARUHANGA GERALD KAFUREEKA is a Ugandan politician representing  Ntungamo municipality. He is a lawyer by profession. He was born on 14-07-1982 in Ntungamo district and went to Kitunga Boarding school before joining Kitabi Seminary in Bushenyi from which he shifted to SMACK in Entebbe. He then joined Makerere University where he achieved a Bachelors degree in law […]

Rev. Canon Charles Collins Andaku Elected as Next Bishop of Madi and West Nile Diocese

Rev. Canon Charles Collins Andaku Elected as Next Bishop of Madi and West Nile Diocese

The Rev. Canon Charles Collins Andaku was last week  elected the next Bishop of Madi and West Nile Diocese. He will be consecrated and enthroned as Bishop on 26th Feb 2017 at Emmanuel Cathedral, Mvara, Arua. He will succeed the Rt. Rev. Dr. Joel Obetia, who is retiring. Canon Andaku was born in 1966 in […]

Cabinet expected to approve 5 new cities

Cabinet expected to approve 5 new cities

The Local Government Minister, Hon. Adolf Mwesigye confirmed that cabinet is expected to approve 5 new cities in the country in a couple of weeks from now following, a thorough check for all the guidelines needed for a place to be elevated to the level of a city. According to the Minister, over 15 municipalities applied […]

Arua market vendors stranded over relocation area

Arua market vendors stranded over relocation area

Arua market vendors are stranded about the failure by government to allocate them a new relocation place as they plan to develop this market into a modern structure. The secretary general of the market authority Innocent Maneno says it is now three years but government has totally failed to allocate them a place yet construction is about to […]

Parliament approves Government loan to fund MATIP 2

Parliament approves Government loan to fund MATIP 2

Parliament has approved a loan, authorizing Government to borrow USD 84.2million from the African Development Bank to finance Phase 2 of the Market and Agriculture Trade Improvement Programme (MATIP 2). The programme aims at tackling market infrastructure development, value addition and trade facilitation. It will be implemented over a five year period in nine municipalities […]

Uganda inflation continues to reduce, now at 25%

The Uganda Bureau of Statistics has released its latest market research indicating that annual headline inflation has reduced tremendously. UBOS today released its monthly market report indicating that the annual headline inflation rate for the year ending January 2012 dropped to 25.7% from 27.0% recorded for the year ended December 2011. Releasing the report in Kampala, the director macro economics statistics, Dr. Mukiza Chris states […]

Is Dorcus Inzikuru pregnant again?

The managers of Uganda’s athletics Dorcus Nzikiru are concerned at reports that she could be pregnant again because she has been falling sick since August this year. Some people in her home town Arua and in Kampala on learning that Dorcus has been sick, started alleging that she could be expecting another baby just two years after she […]