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By Ronald Odongo in Gulu, 22 April 2009

Gulu municipality mayor Christopher Acire has been netted by the police for allegedly raiding to the town clerk's office and threatening violence using his ten heavy looking bully boys on Monday 20 April 2009.

Acire's ten thugs dubbed  "Black mamba" were rounded up on Monday by police and have been cooling at Gulu central police station but the no nonsense mayor was nabbed this morning when he appeared at the po...

By Geoffrey Omara
 
Gulu woman MP Betty Aol Ochan has called for increased enrollment of female teachers in primary schools arguing that their absence is affecting the performance of girls and their retention in schools.
 
Aol argues that many girls have dropped out of school because they lack role models in the teaching profession.
 
She adds that almost all primary schools and Teacher training colleges have a limited number of women enrolling for t...

By Ronald Odongo in Pader

The UPDF have recovered several assortments of LRA rebels’ planted war equipments across the region northern Uganda. In a communiqué  issued the by the 5th division army spokesman Captain Ronald Kakunguru, UPDF has recovered 5 Anti Personnel mines, 3 Sub machine guns, 24 tins of Sub machine gun ammunitions, and 2 tins of G2 ammunition.
 
He further revealed that they have recovered 2 bombs of 60ml, 1 bomb of 82ml, Mortar, 184 ...

By Geoffrey Omara in Gulu, February 28, 2009

The Minister of Education and Sports has pledged to disburse teachers’ salary on time and to strengthen the inspectorate sectors. Naimerembe Bitimazire made the assurance to teachers last Monday in Amuru Town Council when commissioning the packed lunch campaign under the theme ‘’feeding for better learning’’.

She explained that since Universal Primary Education began, feeding the beneficiaries of ...

By Geoffery Omara in Gulu February 9, 2009

Uganda government has constructed a sh447M prison structure in Gulu to house 600 inmates.

While addressing audience at the commissioning ceremony of the structure at Central Government Prison yesterday in Gulu, assistant commissioner of prisons in charge enterprises, David Nsalasata said the project was aimed at reducing congestion in prison cells.

Nsalasata said: “Reports have indicated that inmates&#...