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, […]
The President of the Upper East Regional House of Chiefs, Naba Olando Ayamga Awuni III, who is also Paramount Chief of Naaga Traditional Area, says the decision taken by the President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, to seek a second term in office is wholly appropriate and will be granted by the electorate. […]
The Upper East Region has recorded ten new COVID-19 cases from three Districts, bringing the total number of cases to 18 and one death. The recorded cases included one in the Kassena-Nankana Municipality, and one each in the Bawku West and Pusiga Districts. The Bolgatanga and Bawku Municipalities which earlier recorded cases have also recorded […]
The Upper East Regional Health Directorate has confirmed that two health personnel have tested positive to COVID-19 in the Region. The two are said to be staff of the Bolgatanga Regional Hospital who came into contact with the first case the facility recorded on the 3rd of April, involving a 33 year old resident of […]
The Upper East Regional Minister has given more clarification to an incident that resulted in a woman who tested positive for Covid-19, leaving the Bolgatanga Regional Hospital. According to Paulina Tangoba Abayage, when the 33-year woman reported to the health facility, she was showing signs of the virus but that stopped after her samples were […]
A total of 54 persons have picked nomination forms to contest in the National Democratic Congress’ (NDC) parliamentary primaries in fifteen constituencies in the Upper East Region. The number comprises of three women and 51 men. The party opened nominations from July 10 to July 12 for the primaries. The filing of the nomination forms […]
