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Counterfeit goods flood Uganda's market

Posted by Odongo on February 6, 2011 at 4:25 AM Comments comments (1)

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,...

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Barlegi Residents Give Land to M7 for PGB

Posted by langoconference on June 7, 2009 at 9:33 AM

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...

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Northern Ugandan Journalists to Launch Paper

Posted by langoconference on June 7, 2009 at 9:21 AM

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...

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Museveni to Build Modern School in Barlegi

Posted by langoconference on May 20, 2009 at 6:28 PM Comments comments (0)

By Ronald Odongo in Lira 19 May 2009

 

Bregadier Sabiiti  shakes hands with handshake Benjamin Ogwang (centre) who offered the land as

Lands Minister Omara Atubo looks on (Photo: Ronald Odongo)


Hundreds of President Museveni's neighbors in Barlegi trading centre Okwang sub county ...

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Minister Atubo Attacks National Media for Marginalising Northern Uganda

Posted by langoconference on May 18, 2009 at 7:57 AM

By Ronald Odongo in Lira, 17 May 2009

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Minister Omara Atubo (standing) stressing a point during a dinner with journalists (Photo: Ronald Odongo)


Lands and housing minister, Daniel Omara Atubo, seems to be fed up with the high rate of press marginalisation of Northern Uganda in the national media. ?...

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Lira-Kitgum Highway Accident Claims One, Injures over Twenty

Posted by langoconference on May 14, 2009 at 6:54 PM Comments comments (0)

 

By Bonney Odongo in Lira 12 May 2009


One of the injured passengers being treated by nurses in Lira Hospital


One person died instantly and over twenty others sustained serious injuries when a truck they were traveling in, overturned at corner Ojoro in Ayami...

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US Military & UPDF Engineers Construct Aromo Bridge

Posted by langoconference on May 10, 2009 at 10:10 AM Comments comments (0)

By Ronald Odongo in Lira, 6 May 2009


US military track and engineers at the site


Business along the borders of Lira, Pader and Gulu will now smartly start flowing after the dauntless United States military and Uganda people?s defense forces tactful engineers...

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Strange Pig Disease Hits Railway Division in Lira

Posted by langoconference on May 5, 2009 at 5:33 PM Comments comments (0)

By Bonney Odongo in Lira,  2 May 2009


Dead pigs in Lira (Photo: Bonnface Odongo)


At least 30 pigs have died and several others fallen sick in Railways division in Lira municipality following the out break of an unknown pig disease in the area.


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2 Lira Hospital Staff Nabbed Over Drug Theft

Posted by langoconference on April 13, 2009 at 9:51 AM Comments comments (0)

By Ronald Odongo in Lira April 9, 2009


Police have arrested two medical workers of Lira regional referral hospital believed to be behind the rampant cases of drug theft.


According to the police, Moses Okello, nursing assistant and Patrick Agola, store keeper, were netted for allegedly stealing assortments of drugs with intention to sell in to a retailer one Ekwang Denis in Aboke Sub County.


Okello told police that it was Patrick Agola who had given him those d...

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Lira Journalist Shakes UPC Candidate

Posted by langoconference on April 13, 2009 at 9:22 AM Comments comments (0)

By Ronald Odongo in Lira April 14, 2009


Richard Omara during a press conference at Garden Inn with his campaign manager Mr Omodo, an FDC member


Businesses along Obote avenue were brought to a standstill for over an hour when the convoy escorting Richard Omara Awio aka DT Cobra majestically paraded on the street afte...

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