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Sunday 20th 03 2011 The Won Nyaci attended the burial of my grand mom Imat Yedobica Akedo daughter of late Yamo Okutto Adoko. She passed away at our home in Loro aged 103 years. May her soul rest in peace.

The Won Nyaci attended in his brand new Pajero, a present from H E YK Museveni-thanks to him. Seeing his car parked among the others spotting an ordinary registration number got me thinking. This is no ordinary Lango here.

I have seen fairly ordinary Ugandans w...

Police have expressed concern over the increasedinfiltration of counterfeit products in the country. 

Police say that fake cement resembling Bamburi cement in Kenya is suspected tohave found market in Uganda.

However police say that other fake products do not come from abroad are butlocally produced here in Uganda.

Police is warning that it is criminal to deal in counterfeit or dealing inpirated products knowingly.

Meanwhile,...

By Ronald Odongo in Lira, 3 June 2009

Minister Omara Atubo, State House official Sunday Opio and local leader Paul Ojok inspect the land

(Photo: Ronald Odongo)

Residents of Barlegi in Okwang sub county Lira district have given over 600 acres of land to government for national development, a move that has...

By Ronald Odongo in Lira 3 June 2009

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Security authorities in Lira have launched exceptional search for a suspected presidential guard brigade boy attached to Barlegi state lodge in Okwang Sub County for allegedly abducting and defiling a P.6 pupil of St. Baptist in Gulu and attempting to murder her relatives.

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Lt. Kisangati who is believed to be a Tanzanian national is alleged to have abducted the...

By Bonny Odongo in Lira, 2 May 2009

Robert Egwea - convened and chaired the meeting

On 28 May 2009 more than a dozen print and radio journalists from northern Uganda held a meeting at Lira Hotel and resolved to launch Uganda's fifth national paper within a year.

Currentl...

By Geoffrey Omara in Oyam, 27 May 2009

Vulnerable people receiving bars of soap from Red Cross officials in Oyam (Photo: Geoffrey Omara)

Uganda Red Cross Society has distributed over 240 cartons of soap to vulnerable groups of people in the five sub co...

By LW team, 21 May 2009

Lango NRM supporters during last year's mobilisation.  (Library pictures)

Thousands of NRM party supporters across Lango region are today ecstatic following a decisive victory in the just concluded by-elections. They burst into raptures jubilation shortly after the electoral autho...

By Geoffrey Omara, 18 may 2009

National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAADS) has distributed 3000 citrus seedlings to twenty farmers in Apac  in a bid to boost farming in the district.

While handing over the citrus seedlings to the beneficiaries today in front of the district chambers, the district NAADS Co-odrinator Jo...

By Geoffery Omara in APAC 18 May 2009

The Bank of Ugnada has warned the public against the counterfeit currencies which are on circulation across the country. The northern chief note examiner Bank of Uganda Miriam Abang warned the public on 17 May while meeting members of the public at Apac boma ground.

Abang advised the public not to take the money they use on...

By Ronald Odongo in Lira 19 May 2009

Kole MP Ogwang Beridwogo - night campaigner?

The ongoing by-election in Lango sub region has taken a new twist with four legislators of UPC narrowly surviving arrest by police from Lira central police for allegedly holding campaign rallies in the night.