Fort Portal City Partly Challenged By Sanitation& Hygiene
By Lucky Patrick The deputy mayor Fort Portal city, Hon. Stella Marunga, has observed that some parts of the city have got poor sanitation facilities. Marunga, warns that the issue needs to be addressed with immediate effect, for fear of disease outbreak. During a joint monitoring exercise organized by the Fort Portal […]
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Fort Portal Council Demolishes Two Constructed At R. Mpanga Edges
By Sylvia K In a bid to conserve the environment, Authorities in Fort Portal city, have launched a campaign to rescue River Mpanga from pollution and also erase all activities that are non-friendly to the river between 30 -100 meters. The campaign, comes at a time when a number of people are establishing […]
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Insecurity In Njara Ward – Authorities Hold Gathering
Kabooha Due to the increased cases of insecurity reported in Njara Ward Fort Portal City, now local leaders have held a security meeting and resolved on how to curb the indecent behaviors especially theft. Residents worried of theft Notably, in a village meeting held at Njara Smart butcher trading center, attended by […]
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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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