Ruhunda Attributes Road Accidents To Motorists & Riders
By Sylvia K The Member of Parliament for Fort Portal central, Hon. Alex Ruhunda, doubling as the chairperson parliamentary committee on road safety, has disclosed that at least 95% road accidents are caused by motorists. According to his research, most motorists misuse the roads by over speeding, recklessness, driving while drunk, among others. […]
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Fort Portal City Resorts To Focusing Largely On Sanitation & Hygiene
BY LUCKY PATRICK The mayor Fort Portal Tourism City, His Worship Edison Asaba Ruyonga, has pledged to put more focus on sanitation and hygiene facilities in the tourism City. He said this, in a City Sanitation Coordination committee meeting, organized by Natural Resources Defense Initiative (NRDI) in Fort Portal Tourism city. This, comes along […]
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Scholastic Material Prices Double hike As Schools Open For 2nd Term
By Ronald Tumusiime Following the sudden increase of commodities country wide, parents in Fort Portal are crying foul over the double hiked prices of scholastic materials. According to Fort Portal city vendors, continued hiking of school materials is due to increased demand over available production. They explain, that this is so, because production […]
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Kabarole: EC Display of Villages Ends Successfully
Kabooha The Electoral Commission on Monday last week kicked off a 10-day exercise to display and confirm all the administrative units (villages and parishes) across the country. The exercise was embraced in Bunyangabu, Fort-portal and Kabarole district has been ongoing at Sub-county, Division and ward levels ahead of LC1 elections slated for next year […]
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A Bag Of Cement At 40,000 As Building Material Prices Continue Hiking Up
By Lucky Patrick The price of cement has hit shs40, 000 a bag just as the prices of all building materials continue rising. Prices of building materials, especially cement at early last month started rising due to unexplained reasons. Our reporter sampled a number of hardware shops in fort portal, where he found out […]
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Fort Portal City Receives An Air Quality Monitoring Network
By lucky Patrick In a bid to monitor air quality in Fort Portal Tourism City, AirQo, an air quality research initiative at Makerere University has launched an air quality monitoring network to monitor the levels of air pollution in the City. Speaking during the launch of the monitoring network, AirQo Lead, Professor Engineer Bainomugisha noted […]
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Private Developer In Fort Portal Faulted For Encroachment on River Mpanga
By Lucky Patrick Fort Portal city authorities, have asked the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) to prosecute a private developer for erecting an illegal structure along the banks of River Mpanga. Philemon Asiimwe, an Investor in Fort Portal City, is accused of grading and dumping soil in the river. Asiimwe the private developer, plans to […]
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The Untold Ghetto Story Of Fort Portal
By Augustine Kaboha Commonly, Ghettos are parts of cities where members of the community/minority groups live especially as a result of political, Social, legal, environmental or economical situations. In most countries, Ghettos are known for being isolated areas that accommodate low income generators with deprived access to public service delivery like water, electricity, roads, […]
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Kabarole,Fort Portal in Round 2 Covid-19 Vaccination Campaign
By Sylvia Kabarole District and Fort Portal Tourism City have embarked on the Round 2 Accelerated Covid-19 Vaccination Campaign that will ensure the population eligible for the vaccines is immunized. The Ministry of Health (MOH), is conducting Round 2 Accelerated Covid 19 vaccination campaigns countrywide, where Kabarole District and Fort Portal City are part […]
Continue ReadingThe Waste Management Puzzle in Fort Portal City
BY Fr. Frederick Waako Having a history of being ranked among top clean towns in Uganda, Fort portal city is among the few strategic cities Selected by the government to foster development through tourism industry. The double growing population and waste generation rates in Fort Portal, have however made Waste management a great Challenge […]
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