Zoomlion Ghana Limited has commenced a week-long disinfection and disinfestation exercise across all 15 municipalities and districts in the Upper East Region as part of proactive measures to minimise the risk of disease outbreaks during the peak rainy season. The exercise targets public spaces and sanitation facilities considered potential breeding grounds for disease vectors and […]
In the work of advocating for development in Ghana’s Upper East Region, some names keep coming up — not for self-promotion, but for consistent, tireless action. One of those names is Gabriel Agambila. Though we have not met in person, my communication with Gabriel has shown me the kind of leader he is. He shows […]
Prominent Upper East Region figure Mr. Gabriel Agambila has expressed strong displeasure over the exclusion of the Upper East Region from a major $500 million feeder roads project funded by a loan secured by the government. According to details of the project, all regions except the Upper East and North East have been allocated portions […]
The Ghana Police Service has launched a manhunt for a suspect identified as Mark Agingre, a native of Binduri, believed to be behind a series of gruesome murders in the Binduri District and surrounding communities in the Upper East Region. According to police reports, the suspect is wanted in connection with the murder of a […]
A total of 7,560 children, born between January and June this year in the Upper East Region, have not been registered by the Births and Deaths Registry. The Registrar of the Births and Deaths Registry, Samuel Adom Botchway, described the situation as worrying, explaining that while the Ghana Health Service (GHS) recorded 20,412 births during […]
More than 4,000 Burkinabes, and some Ghanaians, have fled to seek refuge in Ghana following attacks by suspected terrorists and militants in Burkina Faso. The refugees, mostly women and children, have fled from trouble spots in Burkina Faso, namely: Bugri, Zouga and Asongo, to seek asylum in the Bawku West District in the Upper East […]
It has now been confirmed that nine dead bodies have been retrieved from the flooded mining pit at Moabok, a community near Gbane in the Talensi District of the Upper East Region. This follows several hours of rescue operations carried out by personnel of the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO), the Ghana Police Service and […]
Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, Vice President of Ghana has cautioned northerners against buying into the propaganda by the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) is an Akan party. He reiterates that the party birthed from the Northern People’s Party (NPP), has more of its roots in the north and stands for […]
Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has questioned the development record of former President Mahama in the Upper East Region during the eight years he served at the Presidency, especially his four-year tenure as President. Addressing a durbar of Chiefs and people of Mirigu in the Chiana-Paga Constituency during the first day of his tour of […]
The Chief Executive Officer of the National Food Buffer Stock Company (NAFCO), Mr. Hanan Abdul-Wahab has donated Seventy-Seven (77) brand new Motorbikes to the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Upper East Region. The gesture is to resource the Party in the region to effectively prosecute its campaign in the various constituencies as the […]
The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Thursday, 8th October 2020, cut the sod for the construction of a solid waste treatment facility at Sharigu, in the Upper East Region. The Plant, which is being established by the Jospong Group and its partners, in collaboration with government, and which is estimated to […]
The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, says the Bolgatanga-Bawku Road, which has been left unconstructed for several decades, will be completed by the end of December 2020. According to President Akufo-Addo, “the Bolgatanga-Bawku-Polimakom road, which has been the subject of many unfulfilled promises, the latest by the NDC presidential candidate, then President, […]
