The thugs allegedly sneaked into the construction site on Thursday night and stole five rolls of chain-link wire, cement and other construction materials.
Read more ...The boat was carrying more than 60 footballers and fans from Fofo landing site in Buseruka Sub County to Runga landing site in Kigorobya Sub County for a friendly football match when the tragedy occurred. It capsized a few meters from Fofo landing site after setting off killing at least 30 people.
Read more ...Princess Joan Gafabusa and Prince Samuel Kintu Harrison in March dragged CICO, a Chinese firm which was contracted to tarmac Hoima-Wanseko road to court accusing it of illegally blasting Haibale rock which is located in Kyakasato village, Kisukuma parish, Kigorobya Sub-county Hoima district.
Read more ...The funding will go to 120 pupils and students from the two districts selected by the offices of the District Education Officers based on the Uganda National Examinations Board-UNEB results released early this year.
Read more ...Fresh clashes broke out on Saturday night between the Lendu and Bagegere displacing thousands of people from the areas of Tara, Muvaramu, Kango, Gbii, Roo, and Largo in Ituri province in Bunia district.
Read more ...Hoima Deputy Resident District Commissioner (RDC), Richard Tabaro on Monday confirmed the incident adding that information obtained indicates that the Musumba was waylaid by the assailants at around midnight as he was heading to his home in Kijungu.
Read more ...Deo Obura, the Albertine regional police commander says that the search will continue until all the remaining missing bodies are recovered from the lake. The retrieved bodies are for five men and four women.
Read more ...The bodies were retrieved on Monday after the search operation kicked off at 11AM by marine police operatives and the local fishermen.
Read more ...Zawadi Rundi, 20, a survivor says that the boat started losing balance immediately after take-off but many of the occupants thought it was a normal occurrence on the lake.
Read more ...Baker Ogen, the Fofo landing site LC1 Chairperson told Uganda Radio Network that at the time of the boat accident, the players and the Football fans were heading to Runga landing site in Kibiro parish Kigorobya sub county Hoima district for a football match.
Read more ...The new Municipalities that are set to benefit from the new USMID Funding include Lugazi,Kasese,Kamuli, Mubende,Apac,Kitgum, Ntungamu and Busia.
Read more ...The county chiefs are also questioning the circumstances under which 22 square miles of the forest reserve land was leased out for 99 years to Hoima sugar at only shs 3 billion.
Read more ...Museveni says he has well-trained dedicated and modernized security personnel that are supposed to protect Ugandans on the lake should any attacks happen to them anymore. He says soon he is going to deploy operatives with vast skills of protecting Ugandans while on the lake to prevent any possible attacks.
Read more ...Persis Namuganza, the Lands, Housing and Urban Development State Minister, said improving the outlook of the towns, municipalities and cities across the country is one of the signals that Uganda is driving towards the middle income status.
Read more ...Bugoma Central Forest Reserve, covering 410 square kilometres of a protected area, and a stretch of forest measuring 40 kilometres, is a tropical forest in Kikuube district, gazzeted in the 1930s and taken over by the National Forestry Authority in 2003.
Read more ...Mary Grace Mugasa, the Mayor Hoima municipality says many contractors in the region have been trekking long distances to test their construction materials in the central material testing laboratory in Kireka in Kampala, which is 120km away from Hoima town.
Read more ...Julius Hakiza, the Albertine region police spokesperson says that the guards are suspected to have connived with unidentified thugs on Tuesday night and broke into BIDCO offices located on Main Street in Hoima town and stole 30 million shillings.
Read more ...Samuel Kisembo, the Hoima Resident District Commissioner-RDC has directed the Municipal Authorities to fix the stolen manhole covers within three days or else they cancel the commissioning ceremony.
Read more ...The traffic lights were installed last month as part of the 30.1 billion shillings road works under the Uganda Support to Municipal Infrastructure Development-USMID project.
Read more ...The thugs raided the landing site at 2 am putting area residents at gunpoint. They robbed over 100 million shillings from the area residents before they fled.
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