Upper West Region

Stories from Upper West Region

Health

20 CHPS compounds operate without physical structures at Sissala West

March 12, 2023
GNA

By Mohammed Balu Gwollu (UWR), March 12, GNA – The lack of health structures at the Sissalla West District of the Upper West Region…

Social

Waadungyiri residents relieved from hurdles of accessing potable water

March 11, 2023
GNA

By Philip Tengzu Waadungyiri, (UW/R), March 11, GNA – The Sahara Advocates of Change (SAC), an NGO, has saved the residents of Waadungyiri, a…

Social

Wa Police shooting: Family demands justice for “killed” relative  

March 10, 2023
GNA

 By Philip Tengzu Wa, (UW/R), March 10, GNA – The family members of a young man who was allegedly shot and killed by the…

Social

ActionAid and partners celebrate teenage mothers in Upper West to mark IWD 

March 10, 2023
GNA

By Philip Tengzu  Wa, March 10, GNA – ActionAid Ghana, a Non-governmental Orgnaisation, in partnership with the Upper West Regional Department of Gender, has…

Social

OXFAM calls for economic support for Women 

March 10, 2023
GNA

By Mohammed Balu Sorbelle, (UWR), March 10, GNA- Madam Theresa Baveng, Project Coordinator, Women Economic Empowerment for Collective Transformation (WEACT) of OXFAM Ghana, has…

Social

UER Museum makes strides in its operations 

March 9, 2023
GNA

By Fatima Anafu-Astanga  Bolgatanga, March 9, GNA – The Ghana Museums and Monuments Board in Bolgatanga, Upper East Region, is improving on its operations…

Social

Queen mothers call for legislation for their representation in Houses of Chiefs  

March 9, 2023
GNA

By Anthony Adongo Apubeo Navrongo (U/E), March 9, GNA – The Upper East Regional Queen mothers Association has called on the Government and the…

Education

BECE Performance below average in Sissala East -MCE

March 7, 2023
GNA

By Mohammed Balu Tumu, (UWR), March 07, GNA – Mr Yakubu Fuseini Batong, the Sissalla East Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) has bemoaned the low…

Education Top Story

Deputy AG launches UBIDS Law School

March 3, 2023
GNA

By Mohammed Balu Bamahu, (UWR), March 03, GNA – Mrs. Diana Asonaba Dapaa, the Deputy Attorney General and Minister for Justice, has launched the…

Social

Development partners urged to enhance safeguarding of children 

March 2, 2023
GNA

By Comfort Sena Fetrie-Akagbor      Tamale, March. 02, GNA – Mr Abdul Kasiru Shani, Head of Programmes and Policy at Songtaba, an NGO,…

Social

Government urged to enact legal system to protect non-timber forest products 

March 2, 2023
GNA

By Anthony Adongo Apubeo  Bolgatanga, March. 02, GNA – The Ghana Federation of Forest and Farm Producers (GhaFFaP) has called on the government to…

Social

Intensify monitoring to reverse BECE outcomes in Sissala West—DCE urges stakeholders

March 1, 2023
GNA

By Mohammed Balu Sorbelle, (UWR), March 01, GNA – Madam Ayisha Batong Hor, the District Chief Executive for the Sissala West, has appealed to…

Social

Visey Naa declares zero tolerance for illegal mining in community

March 1, 2023
GNA

By Philip Tengzu  Visey, (UW/R), March 1, GNA – Naa Alhaji Ganieu Abdulai Sienu III, the chief of Visey in the Wa East District,…

Social

Legacy Project helps reduce teenage pregnancy,  child marriage – Stakeholders  

February 27, 2023
GNA

 By Philip Tengzu Wa, Feb. 27, GNA – Beneficiary communities of the Legacy Project on Girl’s Empowerment (LPGE) in the Upper West Region have…

Politics

Wa West MP confers with traditional leaders ahead of NDC primary  

February 26, 2023
GNA

By Philip Tengzu  Wechiau (UW/R), Feb. 25, GNA – Superintendent (Rtd) Peter Lanchene Toobu, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wa West, has sought…

Science

World Vision provides potable water for Woloyiri Community 

February 25, 2023
GNA

By: Bajin D. Pobia  Woloyiri (UWR), Feb. 25, GNA – The World Vision has provided potable water for the people of Woloyiri community in the…

Social

Upper East Region House of Chiefs urges government to resolve Bawku crisis

February 25, 2023
GNA

By Anthony Adongo Apubeo Bolgatanga, Feb 25, GNA – The Upper East Region House of Chiefs has called on the government to act “swiftly…

Politics

Group Picks Nomination form for Wa West MP 

February 24, 2023
GNA

By Mohammed Balu Wichau,(UW R), Feb. 24, GNA – A group calling itself the Progressive Youth for Wa West Development has picked a nomination…

Social

Kojikperie Community enacts byelaws to protect environment  

February 22, 2023
GNA

By Mohammed Balu Kojikperi (UW/R), Feb 22, GNA – Kuoro Nadii Musah Koobei, the Chief and the Elders of the Kojikperi Community in the…

Health

Hundreds of school children turn up for free eye screening at Charia 

February 20, 2023
GNA

By Philip Tengzu Charia, (UW/R), Feb. 20, GNA – About 700 school children in the Charia Circuit in the Wa Municipality have undergone free…