Stories :: User: Ezekiel Ssekweyama :: Accepted date: July 2019

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• Poor Remuneration Demoralising Village Chairpersons in Lwengo

  16 Jul 2019, 17:33 Comments 44 Views Lwengo, Uganda Politics Crime Local government Interview

  Apparently, government pays 120,000 shillings to village council chairperson as their annual ex-gratia; translating to into 10,000 shillings per month. However, George William Mutabaazi, the Lwengo district chairperson says this money is too little to keep village chairpersons effectively perform their responsibilities, hence many of them being demotivated.

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• Church Halts Creation of New Dioceses

  15 Jul 2019, 10:40 Comments 312 Views Masaka, Uganda Religion Local government Misc Analysis

  However, on Sunday, Stanley Ntagali, the Archbishop of Church of Uganda sent a section of the congregation in utter silence during his farewell service at St Paul Cathedral at Kako in Masaka district when he revealed that the provincial assembly halted plans for the creation of new dioceses within the church.

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• Court Orders Eviction of 500 Households in Masaka

  13 Jul 2019, 11:10 Comments 151 Views Masaka, Uganda Court Misc Breaking news

  On Friday, the Chief Magistrate Deogratius Ssejjemba on ruled against the families in a dispute over the rightful ownership on 359 acres of land that formerly belonged to the Asians.

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• BOU Considers CRB Listing for Loans on Mobile Money Platforms

  11 Jul 2019, 07:33 Comments 653 Views Kampala, Uganda Business and finance Interview

  Dr Louis Kasekende, the Bank of Uganda Deputy Governor, says that the Central Bank has not been monitoring loans transactions on mobile money platforms because the Telecoms had also not been given licenses to offer products to clients.

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• Lack of Public Toilets at Mutukula Border Post Irks Traders

  8 Jul 2019, 07:32 Comments 345 Views Mutukula, Tanzania Environment Misc Updates

  Janiper Nassiwa, the EASSI project chairperson for Mutukula border, said hundreds of traders and passengers who use the OSBP facility find difficulties answering nature’s call due to lack of public lavatories.

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• Katikiro Warns on Proposed Coffee Law

  7 Jul 2019, 08:25 Comments 590 Views Masaka, Uganda Parliament Agriculture Religion Updates

  In his speech at the consecration of the new Bishop of Masaka Diocese at Kitovu Sports Arena on Saturday, Mayiga lashed out at the framers of the proposed law, saying it will instead frustrate the campaign to rejuvenate coffee farming that had started to realize results.

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• Masaka Bishop Consecrated With Call to Laity to Renew Faith Top story

  6 Jul 2019, 16:09 Comments 529 Views Masaka, Uganda Religion Updates

  Pope Francis appointed Jumba on April 16th this year as the fifth Bishop of Masaka diocese that was curved out of Lubaga in 1939.

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• Catholics Gear Up for Consecration of New Masaka Bishop

  5 Jul 2019, 07:36 Comments 402 Views Masaka, Uganda Lifestyle Religion Updates

  On Saturday, Jjumba will be consecrated as the fifth Bishop of Masaka diocese replacing Bishop John Baptist Kaggwa who clocked the retirement age of 75 years.

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• EU Commits UGX 34 billion to Climate Change Adaptation in Uganda Top story

  4 Jul 2019, 11:37 Comments 799 Views Kalungu District, Uganda Agriculture Environment Analysis

  Under the project, the EU will scale up agricultural adaptation activities in the districts of Nakasongola, Luweero, Nakaseke, Mubende, Kiboga, Sembabule, Kalungu, Gomba, and Lyantonde for the next five years. It will be implemented through a partnership with the Food and Agriculture Organization-FAO, the Ministries of Agriculture, as well as the Ministry of Water and Environment.

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• Masaka Referral Hospital Operates Without Functional Board

  2 Jul 2019, 18:20 Comments 282 Views Masaka, Uganda Health Local government Misc Interview

  The Hospital management guidelines issued by the Health Ministry in 2003 provide for a Board of Governors. The board that is mandated with among other responsibilities to; provide a strategic vision and direction for the Hospital on behalf of the Health Ministry within the framework of the national health policy.

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• High Interest Rates Attributed to Poor Loan Payment

  2 Jul 2019, 16:04 Comments 307 Views Masaka, Uganda Business and finance Lifestyle Analysis

  Doctor George Wilson Ssonko, the head of Financial Consumers Protection Unit at the Bank of Uganda, says the problem arises from many borrowers failing to promptly meet their obligations of loans repayment.

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