LOCAL NEWS – 6.9.10 - BY PETER ESINYEN AND SOFARI WYCLIF - BACK TO SCHOOL

Students and pupils within Lodwar have streamed in shops and bookshops to fill the remaining gaps in their shoppings and some in full school uniforms ready to board their buses to various schools. In this, Shops in Lodwar town have experienced high sales and profits .
According to the report sampled by the Akicha reporters as they went around shops in Lodwar town,a shopkeeper at western Kanamkemer said that a lot of sales have been experienced this holiday as compared to the last holiday, but he commended that the prices are the same compared to the previous one.
At Kilimanjaro mini market,one of the attendants said that the most selling products are sugar and stationary among others, he further said that the price is the same as last holiday but customers have increased in their demand in school items.
Though the government has set aside 9 billion shillings for high school and other public School, parents were seen queuing at the banking halls for the deposition and withdraw of money purposely for school fees.
As the school opens,parents hope that the high demand for stationary will not give the shopkeepers an opportunity to increase prices of the highly demanded products.

Local news – 31.5.10 - Music festivals held at resource centre Lodwar. By Mary Tioko.

Today was the greatest day for all pupils within schools in Turkana Central District where pupils and their teachers were prepared to face the tough competition and they all fought for one position in resource centre. The music divisional secretary Mr. Moses Ekidor, said that the main objective of the music festival is to promote unity among schools and even to the society at large. He also said that other objectives were to promote cultural practices of Turkana community and the pupils in schools to be aware of traditional practices through composition of songs. The secretary said, that the exposure was also another thing as the pupils find an opportunity to interact among various schools from outside and get to learn new things which will help them to expand their thinking capacity.

He added that Turkana District has been leading in music festivals as they always proceed to national levels. He also said, that the best performers are always rewarded to encourage them and give them heart to do more in future.

LOCAL NEWS - 3RD MAY 2010 - PARENTS RUSH FOR SHOPPING AS SCHOOLS OPEN. By Emmanuel A. Ekuwom.

Most of the parents rushed to do shopping for their children as schools opened their doors to the new term. Also as we walked around Lodwar town we could see some of the pupils do their shopping as they prepared to go back to school. Speaking to us the owner of mali mali traders in Lodwar town, Jackson Mukundi, said this was good time for business when they make good sales. He added that whenever schools are about to open, they stock their shops in anticipation of good business.

Other shops like Kilimanjaro mini market, Naipa supermarket, barber shops and Joria Trades were also busy attending to their customers, especially pupils. However the problem of the damaged Lodwar-Kitale Highway has been a big thorn in their flesh. Mr. Nyakundi says that there have been delays in delivery of goods and cost of transporting them have been high.