Ghana Health Service exceeds Malaria Chemoprevention target in Upper East Region 

By Godfred A. Polkuu  Bolgatanga, Oct. 8, GNA – The Upper East Regional Health Directorate of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has exceeded its…

DCE assures traders in Zuarungu of transparent allocation of market stores  

By Fatima Anafu-Astanga  Zuarungu, Oct. 8, GNA- M David Amoah, the District Chief Executive of Bolgatanga East, has assured traders in Zuarungu that the…

Don’t lock up children with disabilities — parents advised 

By Anthony Adongo Apubeo  Bolgatanga, Oct 8, GNA – Mrs Georgina Aberese-Ako, the Upper East Regional Director of the Department of Children, has advised…

Pikworo Slave Camp: Transit Centre for chained Africans  

A GNA feature by Anthony Adongo Apubeo  Bolgatanga, Oct. 7, GNA – For many, Paga, the capital of the Kassena-Nankana West District of the…

Sahel Peace Initiative phase II launched 

By Anthony Adongo Apubeo  Bolgatanga, Oct 5, GNA-The Catholic Church in Ghana has launched the Sahel Peace Initiative (SPI) phase II to help promote…

Upper East Region is bleeding, government must step up security efforts – Bishop Agyenta 

By Anthony Adongo Apubeo  Bolgatanga, Oct 05, GNA-The government has been urged to step up security efforts to curb the incessant violence and conflicts…

Government must address poverty, rising inequalities

By Anthony Adongo Apubeo  Bolgatanga, Oct. 05, GNA – Most Reverend Philip Naameh, the President of the Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference, has called on…

Farmers fail to go by conditions of livestock programme

Fatima Anafu Astanga  Bolgatanga, Oct. 5, GNA – Some farmers who benefitted from the President’s Flagship Programme, Rearing for Food and Jobs (RFJs), in…

Report abuses to duty bearers, Adolescents urged

By Godfred A. Polkuu Chuchuliga (U/E), Oct 4, GNA – Mr Paschal Gyireh, the Monitoring and Evaluation Officer of Children Believe (CB), a child-focus…

MoFA now promoting use of organic fertilizers-Regional Director 

By Jerry Azanduna   Techiman (BE/R), Oct. 04, GNA – The Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) is now promoting the use of organic fertilizers…

Kpantarigo JHS pupils learn in dilapidated mud structure

By Anthony Adongo Apubeo  Kpantarigo (U/E), Oct 3, GNA – The Kpantarigo Junior High School in the Bawku West District of the Upper East…

PURC encourages Ghanaians to report unsatisfactory service 

By Anthony Adongo Apubeo  Sumbrungu (U/E), Oct 3, GNA-The Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) has encouraged consumers to report unsatisfactory services rendered by the…

BECE: T.I Ahmadiyya JHS tops public schools in Bolgatanga 

By Godfred A. Polkuu  Bolgatanga, Sept. 30, GNA – The Teaching Islam (T.I) Ahmadiyya Junior High School (JHS) in the Bolgatanga Municipality has consistently…

War Memorial Hospital in dire need of an Autoclave 

By Anthony Adongo Apubeo  Navrongo (U/E), Sept 28, GNA-The War Memorial Hospital in the Kassena-Nankana Municipality of the Upper East Region is in dire…

Church project strengthening communities’ resilience to fight violent extremism  

By Anthony Adongo Apubeo   Bunkpurugu (U/E), Sept 27, GNA – A project to build the resilience of border communities against threats of terrorism and…

War Memorial Hospital receives oxygen cylinders, flow meters 

By Anthony Adongo Apubeo  Navrongo (U/E), Sept 27, GNA – The War Memorial Hospital in Navrongo, Kassena-Nankana Municipality of the Upper East Region has…

Women in Bolgatanga receive 6,000 layers

Fatima Anafu-Astanga Bolgatanga, Sept.27, GNA – Fifty women farmers in the Bolgatanga Municipality in the Upper East Region have received 6,000 layers under the…

Sexual and reproductive health ambassadors acquire vocational skills

By Anthony Adongo Apubeo  Bolgatanga, Sept 27, GNA – Some youth groups championing sexual and reproductive health education and issues at their communities in…

Head of Local Government calls for commitment to livelihood project  

By Godfred A. Polkuu  Bolgatanga, Sept. 26, GNA-Dr Nana Ato Arthur, the Head of Local Government Service has called for more commitment from the…

Traditional Leaders urge Government to synchronise ages of consent to sex and marriage 

By Anthony Adongo Apubeo  Bolgatanga, Sept 26, GNA-Some traditional and religious leaders in the Upper East Region have called on the government to take…