Tag Archives: Kwania

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The police have arrested Bongoni Okwir Ojok, the National Unity Platform-NUP chairperson for Kwania district and three others. It’s alleged that Okwir, Charles Ogwang, the Kwania district NUP mobilizer and two unidentified NUP officials from Kampala were arrested on Wednesday evening when they had gone …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Hundreds of youths in Kwania district have welcomed the pledge by presidential candidate Nancy Linda Kalembe to create jobs. During her campaign trail in Lango region, Kalembe made several pledges that include fighting corruption, stopping land grabbing, improving teacher’s welfare, better health for youths and …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A total of 1,820 farmers in Kwania district have subscribed for the unique Agricultural Cluster Development Project -ACDP. ACDP is a five-year government project initiated in 2018 to improve on-farm productivity, production, and volumes of selected agricultural commodities in specific geographical clusters of the country. …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has fulfilled his pledge of 150 million shillings to procure a mini-bus for Ikwera Girls Secondary School in Kwania district. Museveni pledged to donate the bus to the school after a school truck, a Tata lorry Reg. No. UG 0753G that …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Fishing activities have resumed on 13 landing sites in Kwania and Dokolo districts. It follows the government’s decision to lift the suspension on fishing activities on Lake Kwania and Kyoga after the March 2019 suspension on the request from Lake Kyoga Integrated Management Organization …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | An elderly woman in Kwania district has torched five grass thatched huts before setting herself on fire protesting a land dispute with her son. The deceased has been identified as Rose Adong, a resident of Awiritojo village in Banya parish in Inomo sub county. …

Kwania, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | More than 400 farmers from six sub-counties in Kwania district have received heifers worth 576 million shillings under the restocking program. In 2014, the government earmarked 20 billion shillings to restore livelihoods and alleviate poverty in West Nile, Acholi, Lango and the Teso-sub regions …

Kwania, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | At least 872 farmers in Kwania district have received farm inputs from Clean Energy Partnership for Africa, CEPA with funding from Kingdom Rice Uganda in collaboration with Equity Bank to promote rice growing. The farm inputs comprising 2,500kgs of Nase-1 improved upland rice seeds with …

Kwania, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Patients at Aduku health center IV in Kwania district have no choice but share a general ward with dead bodies due to lack of a mortuary. Aduku health center IV, a Kwania health sub district hospital that serves Kwania and patients from the neighboring Kole, …

Kwania, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Over 170 farmers in Kwania district have signed a Memorandum of Understanding- MoU with Special Anointing Oil Company, (SAO-Uganda) a nongovernmental organization implementing the growing of rosemary in Eastern, Western and Northern Uganda. The rosemary plant is a luxuriant garden herb with needle-like leaves …