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Welcome to Hope Tower Nursery and Primary school. A school with a committed staff with a focus on excellent performance of children through quality education and co curricular activities. The school emphasizes religious education and consistent prayers in a bid to raise spiritually upright and disciplined children. Be part of the school. Visit us during working hours. The school is located in Kigumba Town Council in Kiryandongo district. You will never regret being part of us. You can reach school administrators on 0775904016/ 0785511956/ 0780898425 Destined to succeed

By Kairagura Emmanuel Ladies and Gentlemen, I hardly engage myself in politics and tribal debates because of what relates to the 2. I am a pure Munyoro of the Basiita clan. I grew with my mother  in Kyabigambire sub county, Bugahya county, Hoima district and now city. My original home is in Kikwatamigo in Buhanika sub county, Hoima city. I grew up leaving with Alur and Lugbara communities in both areas. Right now, both communities own land in that area and we co exist without any bias. In the 90s, I left Bunyoro to Buganda where I stayed for 17 years. The Baganda named every dark skinned person including myself, Badokolo because that sounds funny in their language and yet, by then Dokolo was just a sub county and now, it is a district. Kairagura means it is black in colour but I was also regarded as a Mudokolo. In Acholi, I am known as Ocuc and in Lango, I am known as Ocol. The name Abanyanya came from Buganda when Okello Bazilio and Okello Lutwa brought in the Anyanya ...

By Kundu Ronald The container body of the Mercedes SINO truck that plunged into Karuma bridge on Tuesday has been found after a joint operation by the Uganda National Roads Authority, Police marines and sister security agencies. The truck registration number UAT 113F was transit from Elegu in South Sudan carrying charcoal on Tuesday at around 10:00am when it lost control and plunged into the fast flowing falls. Police and UNRA have spent the last two days searching for wreckages of the truck or bodies of the occupants along the Karuma Bridge waterfall banks. Details of the seen container indicate that the truck belonged to sabagifco Limited, a logistics company located in Namanve industrial park in Kampala however the real contents have not been identified as police was not allowing locals and journalists close to it. Efforts to retrieve missing bodies of the driver who was identified as Tumusiime James and other two occupants are on along the water banks.  UNRA has alr...

By Kundu Ronald Veterinary doctors and residents of Kooki village  in Kiryandongo were shocked after finding a jacket, pieces of polythene bags, nylon sacks and some pieces of stones in the stomach of a cow.  Dr. Kaija John a Veterinary doctor in Kiryandongo district said that one farmer reported a case of an animal that looked very frail and weak. He got informed that the animal had been treated with several drugs in vain. He recommended that the animal be operated since it seemed to have swallowed a solid material. Dr. Ben Kamya a veterinary doctor for Masindi port sub county says that before the operation, he recommended that the animal get dewormed but all was done in vain.  "When we operated the animal, to our surprise, we found a very big mass of solid materials including a jacket, a mosquito net and polythene bags rolled inside", Dr. Kaija John narrated. He appealed to the farmers to always give their animals a balanced diet and enough diet to prevent t...

By Kundu Ronald The Uganda National Roads authority (UNRA) has revealed that it will start off emergency restoration works on a section of Karuma bridge  that was destroyed yesterday by a truck that plunged into the over speeding river.  The truck driver who has been identified as Tumusiime James who was driving a SINO truck UAT  113F and two other occupants were all swept away and efforts to retrieve the wreckages is still on ongoing.  A team from the UNRA Masindi branch has been dispatched to restore the destroyed protective rails according to Allan Ssempebwa the UNRA media relations manager.  Karuma bridge has been at the spotlight of many minor accidents overtime including one last week where a truck broke off the protective rails.  Area residents pray that government constructs a standard bridge with strong protective rails to reduce on the high cases of accidents at the bridge.

By Kundu Ronald Members of the Bunyoro parliamentary caucus took a visit to Karuma Hydro power project yesterday. The visit was to establish the progress of its construction and also find out about the Corporate social responsibility(CSR) and Community Development Action Plan (CDAP).  Eng. Paul Tumwine the deputy project manager Uganda Electricity Generation Company Limited (UEGCL) said that the construction is at 99% with construction and installation compete. He stated that commissioning is in process with 3 units out of 6 already commissioned and operational implying that 300 MW are ready for dispatch.  He noted that due to challenges along the Karuma- Kawanda line, currently only 100 MW are being dispatched along Karuma - Lira line. He further said that the 4th line will be commissioned on June 25th,2023.  "As far as CSR is concerned, we have built school blocks of Diima P/S in Kiryandongo district, Kamaji P/S in Nwoya district and Dicwinyi Health Centre b...