Savannah Region

Stories from Savannah Region

Features

Communal attacks: Disah community bounces back in five years

April 15, 2023
GNA

GNA Feature by, Fatima Anafu-Astanga  Disah (SR), April 15, GNA – Ghana in recent times experienced the growing phenomenon of communal violence, with most…

Features

Basic education blues at North East Gonja District – the need for intervention  

April 7, 2023
GNA

A GNA Feature by Albert Futukpor  Kpalbe (S/R), April 7, GNA – It is always desirable to have a well ventilated classroom with the appropriate…

Social

Danger looms as traders cross White Volta without life jackets

April 6, 2023
GNA

By Dennis Peprah Daboya (S/R), April 6, GNA – Commuters and traders are at risk in their daily crossing of the White Volta River…

Social

Rev Addison inducted Superintendent Minister of the MCG Sawla Circuit 

April 3, 2023
GNA

By Philip Tengzu Sawla, (S/R), April 03, GNA – The Methodist Church Ghana has inducted Very Reverend Isaac Edmund Kofi Addison as the Superintendent Minister…

Social

Gonjas enskin new King

March 21, 2023
GNA

By Regina Atule Nyange (S/R), March 21, GNA – A new King and Overlord for the Gonja Kingdom in the Savannah Region has been…

Environment

EU-funded LEAN project enhances communities’ adaptation to climate change

February 28, 2023
GNA

By Albert Futukpor Tailorpe (S/R), Feb 28, GNA – The cessation of bush burning in some communities in the West Gonja Municipality of the…

Social

Children call on government, stakeholders to end child marriages  

February 24, 2023
GNA

By Solomon Gumah  Damongo, Feb 24, GNA – The West Gonja Municipal Child Parliament in the Savannah Region has called on government and other…

Health

About 240 people at Jantong-Daashei registered under NHIS 

February 24, 2023
GNA

By Comfort Sena Fetrie-Akagbor  Jantong-Daashei (S/R), Feb 24, GNA – A total of 240 people, comprising 145 adults and 95 children in the Jantong…

Social

Four Traditional Councils inaugurated in the Savannah region

February 1, 2023
GNA

Bole/others(S/R), Feb. 01, GNA — Four Traditional Councils have been inaugurated to handle Chieftaincy issues in the Savannah Region. The Traditional Councils namely, Buipe,…

Education

Education is best investment for children – Buipewura Jinapor (II) 

January 18, 2023
GNA

By Albert Futukpor   Buipe (S/R), Jan 18, GNA – Buipewura Abdulai Jinapor (II), Paramount Chief of Buipe Traditional Area, is encouraging parents to continually…

Education

BOST begins distributing exercise books to 19,000 students, pupils 

January 18, 2023
GNA

By Albert Futukpor Buipe (S/R), Jan. 18, GNA – The Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company Limited (BOST) are distributing exercise books to a…

Economy

North Gonja Community Foundation inaugurated

January 6, 2023
GNA

By Albert Futukpor Daboya (S/R), Jan. 06, GNA – The North Gonja Community Foundation (NGCF), a community-owned and incorporated non-profit organisation, has been inaugurated…

Headline Social

Government invests US$740 million in water systems – Vice President 

October 11, 2022
GNA

By Bajin D. Pobia Tuna, (SR), Oct. 11, GNA –The Government has invested about US$ 740 million in the provision of water systems in…

Politics

President Akufo-Addo commended for development projects in Savannah Region

August 27, 2022
GNA

By Albert Futukpor   Tamale, Aug 27, GNA – Hajia Safia Mohammed, the Deputy National Women’s Organizer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has commended…

Social

Savannah Regional office of Lands Commission inaugurated at Damongo 

August 11, 2022
GNA

By Albert Futukpor Damongo, August 11, GNA – The Savannah Regional office of the Lands Commission has been inaugurated to bring formal land administration…

Health

High turnout in communities for yellow fever vaccine

February 27, 2022
GNA

By Albert Futukpor Jentige (S/R), Feb 27, GNA – Hundreds of people turned out in various communities to take the yellow fever jabs to…

Politics

West Gonja, North Gonja DCE Nominees get nod

October 2, 2021
GNA

Damongo, Oct 2, GNA – The Municipal and District Chief Executive Nominees for West Gonja Municipality and North Gonja District in the Savannah Region…