Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The installation of Closed Circuit Television – CCTV surveillance security cameras has started in Lira city. The cameras are intended to help police curb down the growing crime. The exercise is part of the second phase of the CCTV surveillance camera network expansion project undertaken …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Taxi operators in Lira city have abandoned the taxi park and opted to operate on the roadside. After public transport was reopened in June, the city authorities banned taxis from operating along the streets. However, some of the taxi drivers in Lira city are not …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A teenager has been buried alive at a murrum excavating site in Lira City West Division. The deceased has been identified as 15-year-old Aaron Alianyo Alyanyo, a resident of Awita village, Amuca parish, Lira city West Division. Alyanyo met his death when he went to …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Ulrich Meyer, a Swedish National in Lira city has accepted to meet the burial expenses and pay blood money for knocking dead a primary school teacher. Meyer’s vehicle knocked dead Jimmy Odongo, a teacher at Rima Nursery and Primary School on Friday last week …
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Lira, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | MS Habitat Consultants have embarked on the feasibility study ahead of the proposed construction of Akii-Bua Stadium in Lira district.The Sports State Minister, Denis Hamson Obua introduced the consultants to Lira district local government on Friday last week. The 90 days exercise will cost Shillings …
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Lira, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The COVID-19 taskforce in Lira has resorted to treating patients from their respective homes after the only treatment centre in the region became congested. The treatment centre with a capacity of only 20 patients has now admitted 35. Eight people who have recently tested …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Leaders in Soroti and Lira have expressed mixed reactions to the immediate operationalization of both cities. In April, Parliament approved the creation of 15 cities which would start operations in a phased manner. The cities that would take effect July 1 are Fort Portal, Masaka, …
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Lira, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police at Lira central police station have charged two men on allegations of assaulting two traffic police officers. The two reportedly beat up the traffic officers Emmanuel Tumuhibise and Thomas Kamusiime who were carrying out their duties on Saturday in Ngetta along Kigtum-Lira road. …
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Lira, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda’s Minister of Health Jane Ruth Aceng is in the spotlight on social media after several posts showed her in a gathering of people without a face mask. Nearly all the people she was interacting with, did not have masks on. Criticism of …
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Lira, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Lira municipal council has threatened to halt tarmacking of boundary road after a section of residents threatened to sue the municipal authorities for allegedly trespassing on their land. The road which stretches from Lango College in Adyel division to Ngetta road in Railways division …
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