Upper West Region

Stories from Upper West Region

Social

Kundugu community gets peace committee to promote social cohesion  

April 3, 2024
GNA

Kundugu, (U/W), April 3, GNA – The Upper West Regional Peace Council has formed a seven-member peace committee at Kundugu in the Wa East…

Social Top Story

Speaker Bagbin joins St. Dominic Church to dedicate church pews 

April 3, 2024
GNA

By Philip Tengzu, GNA  Sombo, (UW/R), April 3, GNA – Mr Alban S. K. Bagbin, the Speaker of Parliament, has joined congregants of the…

Economy

Government urged to review law to stop credit unions from paying corporate tax

April 3, 2024
GNA

By Philip Tengzu Wa, (UW/R), April 3, GNA – The government has been urged to review the tax law that has roped credit unions…

Social

Women trained on climate resilient alternative economic ventures

April 2, 2024
GNA

By Philip Tengzu Wa, (UW/R), April 02, GNA – The Upperlink Consult, a skills development and sustainable waste management organisation in Wa, has introduced…

Social Top Story

Material possession does not determine one’s value of life – Rev. Achana

April 1, 2024
GNA

By Philip Tengzu, GNA  Wa, (UW/R), April 1, GNA – Reverend Monica A. Achana, a Reverend Minister of the Methodist Church of Ghana in…

Social

Ghanaians urged to seek God’s direction to choose a credible leader  

April 1, 2024
GNA

By Philip Tengzu, GNA  Wa, (UW/R), April 01, GNA – The Very Reverend Isaac Justice Arhin-Yorke, the Bishop’s Deputy of Wa-Bolgatanga Mission Diocese of…

Economy

Rural banks in Upper West to form regional bank 

March 31, 2024
GNA

By Mohammed Balu, GNA   Tumu, (UWR), March 31, GNA – Mr Adams Sulley, the Chairman of the Sissala Rural Bank, has announced that discussions…

Social

Gwollu Defence Wall, the Sissala act of human freedom 

March 31, 2024
GNA

By Mohammed Balu, GNA  Gwollu, (UWR) March 31, GNA – Kuoro Bamula Basinjia Chiemina, the Divisional Chief of Kandia in the Sissala West District,…

Social

Gender Network appeals for support to renovate remand home  

March 29, 2024
GNA

By Philip Tengzu Wa, (UW/R), March 29, GNA – The Upper West Regional Gender Support Network (GSN) has appealed to the government, development partners,…

Social

Gender Network concerned about Galamsey depriving children of education  

March 29, 2024
GNA

By Philip Tengz  Wa, (UW/R), March 29, GNA – The Upper West Regional Gender Support Network (GSN) has raised concern about the illegal mining…

Social

Tribal-based campaigns are a threat to national unity – NCCE 

March 28, 2024
GNA

By Bajin D. Pobia  Wa, March 28, GNA – The National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) has appealed to political parties and supporters to…

Health

Political instability in Burkina Faso, Mali stresses health sector in UWR 

March 27, 2024
GNA

By Philip Tengzu Wa (UW/R), March 27, GNA – The political instability in Burkina-Faso and Mali continues to exert undue stress on the health…

Health

Upper West Regional Hospital, three others warned against illegal fee charges 

March 27, 2024
GNA

By Philip Tengzu  Wa, (UW/R), March 27, GNA – The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) has warned four health facilities in the Upper West…

Health

Upper West Region records 19 maternal deaths in 2023

March 27, 2024
GNA

By Philip Tengzu Wa (UW/R), March 27, GNA – Dr Damien Punguyire, the Upper West Regional Director of Health Service, has said the region…

Social

Foundation embarks on two-week evangelism  

March 26, 2024
GNA

By Joseph Agrace Wiyorbie   Lyssah, (UW/R), March 26, GNA – The Decision for Life Foundation, a non-government organisation (NGO) affiliated to the Seventh Day…

Social

Institute pricing policy for maize – Chief

March 26, 2024
GNA

By Mohammed Balu Tumu, (UWR), March 26, GNA – Kuoro Richard Babini Kanton VI, the Paramount Chief of the Tumu Traditional Area, has appealed…

Education

Simon Diedong Dombo University inducts 4th cohort of students, calls for discipline

March 26, 2024
GNA

By Philip Tengzu Bamahu, (UW/R), March 26, GNA – The Simon Diedong Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Studies (SDD-UBIDS) has inducted the…

Health

Upper West Region tops in NHIS population coverage 

March 24, 2024
GNA

By Philip Tengzu, GNA   Wa, (UW/R), March 24, GNA – The Upper West Region tops all the 16 regions in the 2023  National Health…

Health

Water Resources Commission advocates transboundary cooperation for global water security 

March 24, 2024
GNA

By Mohammed Balu, GNA  Tumu (UW/R), March 24, GNA – Dr Joachim Ayiiwe Abungba, the Black Volta Basin Head, Water Resources Commission (WRC), has…

Headline Politics

Seize every opportunity to influence party manifestos – citizens told

March 23, 2024
GNA

By Philip Tengzu Wa, (UW/R), March 23, GNA – The STAR-Ghana Foundation has urged Ghanaians to seize every opportunity to amplify their voices to…