Northern Region

Stories from Northern Region

Social

NYA sensitises students on Valentine’s Day celebration  

February 9, 2023
GNA

By Solomon Gumah       Tamale, Feb. 9, GNA – The National Youth Authority (NYA) has begun sensitising Senior High School (SHS) students in…

Health

Sukaya Primary School, community get potable water 

February 8, 2023
GNA

By Albert Futukpor     Sukaya (N/R), Feb. 08, GNA – A solar-powered mechanised borehole has been inaugurated to ensure access to potable water for the…

Social

Yagbonwura Tuntumba Bore Esa goes home 

February 5, 2023
GNA

By Albert Futukpor Damongo, Feb 05, GNA – Yagbonwura Tuntumba Jakpa Bore Esa, Overlord of Gonja Traditional Area, has died.  He died last night…

Social

GASIP launches bushfire campaign 

February 2, 2023
GNA

By Rosemary Wayo Kumbungu (N/R), Feb. 02, GNA – The Ghana Agricultural Sector Investment Programme (GASIP) has launched a Community Bushfire Sensitisation Campaign to…

Social

NYA engages youth at Kumbungu on national development 

February 2, 2023
GNA

By Solomon Gumah     Dalun (N/R), Feb. 02, GNA – The National Youth Authority (NYA) has engaged some youth groups at Kumbungu District as…

Social

Youth urged to embrace culture of volunteerism 

February 1, 2023
GNA

By Solomon Gumah      Tamale, Feb 01, GNA – Mr Mumuni Sulemana, Northern Regional Director of the National Youth Authority (NYA), has urged…

Social

Office of Special Prosecutor arraigns CEOs of Northern Development Authority, A&QS 

January 31, 2023
GNA

By Albert Futukpor   Tamale, Jan. 31, GNA – The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) on Tuesday arraigned three executives of the Northern Development…

Economy

Dabokpa Technical Institute manufactures tricycle

January 31, 2023
GNA

By Albert Futukpor   Tamale, Jan 31, GNA – Dabokpa Technical Institute in Tamale has manufactured a tricycle as part of efforts to reduce importation…

Social

Emission Reductions Project achieving results – Manager 

January 30, 2023
GNA

By Comfort Sena Fetrie-Akagbor Tamale, Jan 30, GNA –The Ghana Shea Landscape Emission Reductions Project (GSLERP) says it has planted 1,268,725 seedlings on 1,427…

Social

USAID MSR Activity to develop roadmap to strengthen businesses

January 30, 2023
GNA

By Albert Futukpor  Tamale, Jan 30, GNA – The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), through its Market Systems and Resilience Activity, is…

Social Top Story

Attempts to encroach on Aboabo forest land will be challenged—Dagbon Forum

January 27, 2023
GNA

By Rosemary Wayo Tamale, Jan 27, GNA – Sakoya-Naa (Chief of Sakoya) Sintaro Mahama, President of the Dagbon Forum, has warned that any attempt…

Social Top Story

Peace Councils, Houses of Chiefs receive logistic support

January 27, 2023
GNA

By Albert Futukpor  Tamale, Jan. 27, GNA – The five Regional Peace Councils and the five Regional Houses of Chiefs in the northern part…

Economy

NYA presents skills development tools to youth at Savelugu 

January 27, 2023
GNA

By Solomon Gumah  Savelugu (N/R), Jan. 27, GNA – The National Youth Authority (NYA) has presented skills development tools to selected youth in the…

Social

Group demands end to leasing of government lands in Dagbon 

January 26, 2023
GNA

By Rosemary Wayo Tamale Jan 26, GNA – Dagbon Forum, a pressure group, has called for an end to leasing of government lands and…

Social

Upper East Regional Minister calls for haemodialysis centre  

January 25, 2023
GNA

By Anthony Adongo Apubeo Bolgatanga, Jan 25, GNA – Mr Stephen Yakubu, the Upper East Regional Minister, has intensified advocacy for the establishment of…

Social

Northern Region records 391 fire cases in 2022 

January 24, 2023
GNA

By Rosemary Wayo  Tamale, Jan. 24, GNA – A total of 391 fire cases were recorded in the Northern Region in the year 2022,…

Politics

NDC youth throng Tamale Party office over leadership changes in Parliament  

January 24, 2023
GNA

By Albert Futukpor Tamale, Jan 24, GNA – Some National Democratic Congress (NDC) youth Tuesday afternoon thronged the Tamale Party office at Lamashegu to…

Health

COVID-19: North East Region tops nationwide vaccination exercise 

January 24, 2023
GNA

By Godfred A. Polkuu Nalerigu (NE/R), Jan. 24, GNA – Dr Abdulai Abukari, Regional Director of Health at the Ghana Health Service (GHS) in…

Health

Mabia-Ghana gives to GHS in North East Region 

January 23, 2023
GNA

By Godfred A. Polkuu  Nalerigu (NER), Jan. 23, GNA – Mabia-Ghana, a health-centred Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), has presented medical equipment to the Ghana Health…

Features

Psychotherapy is cheaper compared to its results

January 21, 2023
GNA

A GNA Feature by Rosemary Wayo  Tamale, Jan. 21, GNA – Lois (not her real name), a young lady wrote a letter to her…

Social

Bidiribombe outdoors Chief in Tatale

January 16, 2023
GNA

By Abebe Dawuni Bedribombe (NR) Jan 16,  GNA – Obore Gariba Yankosor II, the Paramount chief of Tatale Traditional Area has enskined a 55 year…

Education

Play key role in the education of your children-Parents urged  

January 13, 2023
GNA

By Comfort Sena Fetrie-Akagbor Tamale, Jan 12, GNA – Parents and guardians have been urged to play key roles in supporting education of their…

Headline Social

Thousands of youth join Fix the Country demonstration in Tamale

January 7, 2023
GNA

By Rosemary Wayo Tamale, Jan 7, GNA – Thousands of youth, dressed in red apparel, have demonstrated for a new constitution and accountability from…

Health

Prioritise psychosocial interventions for victims of substance abuse 

January 5, 2023
GNA

By Solomon Gumah  Tamale, Jan 05, GNA – Government and other stakeholders in the health sector have been urged to prioritise psychosocial interventions as…