Night murders increase in Lango

By Bonny Odongo

The people of Lango were thrown into panic by the July 19 incident in which a Juba-based businesswoman Dorcus Achola was brutally murdered in a manner that most people thought could only be executed by none other than the barbaric rebels of the LRA.

Lira RDC Joan Pacoto (In Blue track suit) views the body of Dorcus Achola who was killed by unknown assailants in Senior Quarters near the military barracks on Saturday July18. (Photo by Bonny Odongo)

Filed under: Features, Lira Uganda

100 Amolatar residents rounded up for illegal fishing

By Ronald Odongo
Amolatar

Following a week-long intensive operations conducted by Amolatar district authorities in Lakes Kwania and Kyoga about one hundred local residents have been arrested for fishing using illegal gears. Two hundred bad fishing gears were confiscated and burnt.

Filed under: Amolatar Uganda

Mama Miria Obote blocked from holding rally in Amuria

By Ronald Odongo
Amuria

Supporters of Uganda People’s Congress in Amuria were today morning engaged in scuffles with the police who were deployed to block their rally.

Hundreds of heavily armed police officers were deployed at the district headquarters to disperse thousands of the UPC party supporters who had gathered to welcome their president Mama Miria Obote (right) at the party launch in the eastern region.

UPC party officials at Uganda House said that the rally is intended to launch the mobilization campaign a head of the 2011 general elections.

Amuria LC5 district chairperson, Julius Ocen, who was elected under the UPC party ticket, accused the minister of state for disaster preparedness and the area MP, Musa Ecweru of using the police to sabotage their activities in the district.

Filed under: Politics

UPC in crisis again

By Ronald Odongo
Lira

UPC party leaders in Lira are split over the new appointment of district chairperson and dismissal of spokesperson. The circumstances surrounding the dismissal of the UPC party spokesperson in Lango has attracted protests and criticism against the new party chief.

Filed under: Politics

Mob seals Lira Magistrate’s Court gate with intention to lynch murder suspects

By Rolex Akena
Lira

An angry mob was dismayed on July 22 after their targeted move to lynch 5 people suspected of murdering a business lady got foiled.

Filed under: Lira Uganda

A business woman murdered in Lira

By Phillips Ogile
Lira

Police in Lira have arrested over 20 suspected people and release orders murdered case that a business woman identified as Dorcus Acola was killed in senior Quota B Lira Municipality opposite Lira Barrack.

Filed under: Lira Uganda

Canadian charity unlocks Kamdini water pump in defiance of court order

By Phillips Ogile
Oyam

A Canadian charity that is supporting vulnerable people and groups in Oyam District to alleviate poverty through Northern Uganda Development Foundation (NUDF) has unlocked the water pump or ‘borehole’ that Lira Court had put an injunction on in Kamdini, Oyam district.

NUDF officials taste the water in the presence of Hon Beatrice Lagada (in yellow ‘gomas’). Photo by Phillips Ogile

Filed under: Oyam Uganda

20 years behind bars for defiler of 10 year old girl

By Ronald Odongo
Apac

The high court in Apac has sentenced a 29 year old man to 20 years imprisonment for defiling a girl aged 10. Belmos Egoo, a resident of Opeta parish in Aboke Sub County, late last year had sexual intercourse with a girl who he had brought from a relative to live in his home as a house maid.

Filed under: Apac Uganda

Manchester United Fans Club celebrate their victory in Lira

By Phillips Ogile
Lira

Lira Manchester United Fans club celebrate their victory in high colour where fire works and big entertainment worth10 million Uganda Shillings.

Sam Engola (in dark suit) and fans cut a cake while Hon Jimmy Akena (centre) watches. Photo by Phillips Ogile

 

The celebration that took place at St Lira Hotel about a week ago drew fans from different sports clubs Like Arsenal, Liverpool, Chelsea and so on. Artists of different kind of songs reggae hip hops and locals where there to entertain.

Filed under: Lira Uganda

Apac NRM Party Chairperson asks for tarmac

By Geoffrey Omara
Apac

The Apac NRM party Chairman Richard Ogwang Odyero has called on President Museveni to fulfill his pledge of putting tarmac on Masindi-Apac-Lira road this financial year.

Filed under: Apac Uganda