A teenager has reported his family to the Bono Regional Office of the Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit (DOVVSU) for not providing him with enough food and pocket money. The Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Beatrice Korsah, the Bono Regional Coordinator of the DOVVSU, disclosed this to the media in Sunyani, saying, “we invited […]
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More females living with HIV and AIDS in Bono Region – HIV Coordinator
The female population of Persons Living with HIV and AIDS (PLwHAs) in the Bono Region outnumbers the male, statistics from the Ghana Health Service (GHS) have indicated. The figure reveals as of September 2024, out of the total 11,401 Persons Living with HIV and AIDS (PLwHAs) in the region, 8,481 of them were females and […]
Kwame Baffoe Abronye DC re-elected as NPP Bono Regional Chair
Kwame Baffoe, popularly referred to as Abronye DC has been re-elected as the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Bono Regional Chairman. Results BONO REGION POSITION BALLOT POSITION ASPIRANT CHAIRMAN 1 KWAME BAFFOE – 173 2 KONLAABIG RASHEED – 84 1ST VICE CHAIR 1 JOSEPH MENSAH -181 2 NANA ATTA FENA -19 3 KWADWO AGYEKUM -25 4 […]
Special anti-armed robbery squad for Eastern, Bono East regions
The Ghana Police Service has deployed its special Anti-Armed Robbery Squad (AARS) to the Eastern and Bono East regions to clamp down on the increasing activities of armed robbers in those regions. The AARS special force is to boost the capabilities of the two regional commands to ruthlessly fight robbery and other violent crime on […]
Landlord threatens to shoot enumerator
An enumerator assigned to the Dr Berko Area for the 2021 Population and Housing Census has shared his chilling experience with the Daily Graphic, stating how a landlord threatened to shoot him during the exercise. The enumerator, assigned to the enumeration Area 181 in the Sunyani Municipality, who preferred to be anonymous said during the […]
Vaccination takes off in Volta, Bono regions
Two regions – Volta and Bono – kicked off their vaccination against COVID-19 Thursday. The exercise started with health workers at the frontline in the fight against the pandemic. Volta Region In the Volta Region, about 14,450 health workers will receive the vaccines, reports Graphic Online’s Mary Anane-Amponsah. The exercise is expected to cover staff […]
Bono Region benefits from 817 projects including 3 new hospitals-President Akufo-Addo
The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has given an account of the principal activities being undertaken by his Government in the Bono Region in the last three and a half years of his tenure of office as President. According to President Akufo-Addo, as part of Government’s Agenda 111, which seeks to build […]
Ghanaians will Vote in Freedom , Peace & Security on 7th December – President Akufo-Addo assures
The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has reiterated his commitment to ensure that the Ghanaian electorate are able to cast their vote in peace, security and freedom on 7th December. Addressing the Bono Region House of Chiefs on Thursday 10th September 2020, President Akufo-Addo assured the House of the “wholehearted efforts that […]
Revealed: Togolese who illegally entered Ghana is Bono Region’s first Covid-19 case
The first person to test positive for the novel coronavirus in the Bono Region is a Togolese national who entered the country illegally, the Regional Minister has revealed. This forms part of the 372 new cases that brought the country’s tally to 3,091 as announced by the Ghana Health Service May 7, 2020. The new case detected […]
Fire ravages Techiman Market
A fire has ravaged the Techiman central market in the Bono East Region destroying shops belonging to traders. The fire incident, which lasted for about four hours, occurred on Saturday, February 29. The Bono East Regional Fire Commander, DO1 George Annim Frimpong, in a Citi News’ interview said his outfit was alerted of the fire […]
I’ve been smoking ganja for 60 years-77-year-old man arrested for cultivating weed farm tells police
The Police have arrested a 77-year-old man who allegedly owned a two-acre marijuana farm in the Bono East region. The suspect, Opanin Kwadwo Sampene, was cultivating the marijuana farm at Mem, a suburb of Atebeubu. A team of officers, led by District Commander Chief Supt. Bright Boafo, stormed the farm to arrest the suspect following […]
Chiefs in Bono Region commend Akufo-Addo for free SHS and restoration of trainee allowances
The Chiefs and Queen Mothers of the newly created Bono Region have commended the President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, for the implementation of the Free Senior High School Policy, and the restoration of the teacher trainee and nursing trainee allowances. Speaking on behalf of the Chiefs of the Region, Nana Bofo Bene […]