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Wuru community rejects Ghana cedis

September 26, 2022
GNA

By Caesar Abagali/Mohammed Balu  Wuru (UWR), Sept. 26, GNA – The people of Wuru, a deprived community in the Sissala East Municipality of the…

Politics

NDC Elections: Delegates urged to prioritise competence

September 23, 2022
GNA

By Philip Tengzu Issa (UW/R), Sept. 23, GNA – Mr Ansofanga Dabanguu, a Youth Organiser aspirant for the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the…

Social

Security Constraints: IGP pledges logistical support to Gwollu   

September 23, 2022
GNA

By Mohammed Balu Gwollu,(UW/R), Sept. 23, GNA – The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Dr George Akufo Dampare, has pledged to deploy 30 police…

Social

IGP assures Ghanaians of maximum peace and security

September 21, 2022
GNA

By Philip Tengzu/Mohammed Balu  Tumu, (UW/R), Sept. 21, GNA – Dr. George Akufo Dampare, the Inspector General of Police (IGP), has assured Ghanaians of…

Social

Wa killings: Another dead body recovered  

September 20, 2022
GNA

By Philip Tengzu Wa, (UW/R), Sept. 20, GNA – A fresh dead body of an unidentified male adult was, Monday, September 19, 2022, recovered…

Social

Wa-Naa expresses mix feelings about youth demonstration  

September 20, 2022
GNA

By Bajin D. Pobia Wa, Sept.  20, GNA – The Wa-Naa, Naa Fuseini Seidu Pelpuo VI, the Paramount Chief of the Waala Traditional Area,…

Economy

Women cooperatives get warehouses to boost shea business

September 20, 2022
GNA

By Philip Tengzu Jang, (UW/R), Sept. 20, GNA – The Fuji Oil Ghana (FOG), a private sheanut processing company, has commissioned two warehouses for…

Social

Police put GHS 100,000 reward for information on Wa “killers”  

September 20, 2022
GNA

By Philip Tengzu  Wa, (UW/R), Sept. 20, GNA – The Upper West Regional Police Command has put a GHS100,000.00 reward for any person or…

Social

Government sympathises with families of ‘killed’ persons in Wa 

September 19, 2022
GNA

By Philip Tengzu Wa, (UW/R), Sept. 19, GNA – The government, through the Ministry of the Interior, has expressed condolences to the families of…

Court & Crime Top Story

Search team arrests a suspect involved in recent Wa killings 

September 19, 2022
GNA

By Caesar Abagali/Bajin D. Pobia Wa, Sept. 19, GNA – A search team instituted by the Waala Traditional Council to help the Regional Police…

Social

Help to empower adolescent girls to end teenage pregnancy- PPAG 

September 19, 2022
GNA

By Anthony Adongo Apubeo  Bongo-Soe (U/E), Sept 19, GNA-The Planned Parenthood Association of Ghana (PPAG), a Non-Governmental Organisation, has called for collective efforts from…

Social

Government sympathises with families of ‘killed’ persons in Wa 

September 19, 2022
GNA

By Philip Tengzu  Wa, (UW/R), Sept. 19, GNA-The government, through the Ministry of the Interior, has expressed condolences to the families of killed persons…

Social

IGP visits Wa over recent reported killings  

September 19, 2022
GNA

By Philip Tengzu Wa, (UW/R), Sept. 19, GNA – The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Dr George Akuffo-Dampare, is paying a working visit to…

Social

Construction of 20-km Tumu-Wa highway begins 

September 19, 2022
GNA

By Mohammed Balu Lilixia (UWR), Sept. 19, GNA – The construction work on the 20-Kilometre Tumu-Wa highway has begun as one of the five…

Social

NGO launches project to tackle farmer-herder conflict 

September 18, 2022
GNA

By Mohammed Balu Tumu, (UW/R), Sept 18, GNA – Save Ghana, a Non – governmental Organization (NGO),  has launched an eight-month project  in Tumu…

Economy

Market women express worry over deplorable roads

September 17, 2022
GNA

By Mohammed Balu Tumu, (UW/R), Sept. 17, GNA – Some market women in the Sissala East Municipality have expressed concern about the impact of…

Social

Upper West REGSEC adopts measures to fight crime 

September 15, 2022
GNA

By Caesar Abagali Wa, Sept. 15, GNA – The Upper West Regional Security Council has put security issues in the region on high alert,…

Social

Upper West Police engages stakeholders to end mystery killings

September 14, 2022
GNA

Credit: By Philip Tengzu  Wa, (UW/R), Sept. 14, GNA – The Upper West Regional Police Command, Wednesday, engaged stakeholders in the region who solicit…

Politics

MP facilitates construction of Health Centre 

September 13, 2022
GNA

By Mohammed Balu Silbelle, (UW/R), Sep. 13, GNA – Mr Mohammed Sukparu Adams, the Member of Parliament for the Sissala West constituency, has facilitated…

Economy

Out-grower farmers in Sissala poised to feed Ghana

September 11, 2022
GNA

By Mohammed Balu  Duwie, (UW/R), Sept. 11, GNA – Kuoro Nashiru Kanwei, the Chief of Duwie, a community in the Sissala West District has commended `Chi- Gaba’ a…