Western North Region

Stories from Western North Region

Education

Acting Principal commissions lecturer’s bungalow 

March 30, 2025
GNA

By Erica Apeatua Addo,   Enchi (WN/R), Mar. 30, GNA-Dr Emmanuel Adom Ashun,  the Acting Principal of Enchi College of Education, in the Western North…

Politics

GAAM congratulates MDCE nominees for Western North Region

March 27, 2025
GNA

By Alex Baah Boadi Sefwi-Wiawso (WN/R), March 27, GNA – The Western North branch of the Ghana Association of Assembly Members (GAAM) has extended…

Politics

MCE nominee grateful to President Mahama 

March 27, 2025
GNA

By Daniel Akwasi Nuako Bibiani (WN/R), March 27, GNA – Mr Sebastian Obeng, Bibiani-Anhwiaso-Bekwai Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), nominee has expressed his profound gratitude…

Social

Group raises concern over filth, non-functioning streetlights in Wiawso

March 26, 2025
GNA

By Alex Baah Boadi Sefwi-Wiawso (WN/R), March 26, GNA – The Western North Solidarity Movement, a group in the Western North Region, has expressed…

Social

Peace Council raises concern over high rate of illegal mining and logging in WNR

March 25, 2025
GNA

By Alex Baah Boadi Sefwi-Wiawso (WN/ R), March 25, GNA – The Western North Regional branch of the National Peace Council has expressed concern…

Social

Wiawso Traditional Council urges government to deploy military to rescue forest reserves

March 21, 2025
GNA

By Alex Baah Boadi Sefwi-Wiawso (WN/R), March 21, GNA – The Sefwi-Wiawso Traditional Council in the Western North Region, has appealed to the government…

Social

Sefwi Bodi Calvary Methodist Church celebrates golden jubilee

March 16, 2025
GNA

By Alex Gyawu Asante Bodi (WN/R), March 16, GNA – The Sefwi Bodi Calvary Methodist Church in the Afere Circuit of the Sefwi Bekwai…

Social

Two perish in galamsey pit at Karlo

March 14, 2025
GNA

By Alex Baah Boadi Karlo (WN/N), Mar 14, GNA – Two persons at separate times, have lost their lives in galamsey pits at Karlo…

Social

Fire razes four wooden rooms at Manukrom

March 12, 2025
GNA

By Alex Baah Boadi Sefwi-Nsawora (WN/R), March 12, GNA – Fire has razed a four-bedroom wooden structure at Manukrom in the Akontombra District of…

Education

Bibiani-Anhwiaso-Bekwai NCCE holds quiz competition for selected schools

March 11, 2025
GNA

By Daniel Akwasi Nuako Bibiani (WN/R), Mar 11, GNA – Madam Martha Nneka Opera, the Bibiani-Anhwiaso-Bekwai Municipal Director of the National Commission on Civic…

Social

Minerals Commission hands over reclaimed galamsey lands to three communities 

March 9, 2025
GNA

By Daniel Akwasi Nuako   Sefwi Anhwiaso (WN/R), March 9, GNA —The Minerals Commission has handed over 175 acres of reclaimed illegal mining (galamsey) sites…

Headline Social

Boinzan chief urges regional minister to protect forest reserves

March 6, 2025
GNA

By Alex Baah Boadi   Sefwi-Bonzain (WN/R), March 6, GNA – Nana Ofori Ahenkan II, Chief of Sefwi-Bonzain in the Juaboso district of the Western…

Health

Western North NHIS reviews 2024 operations 

March 3, 2025
GNA

By Alex Gyawu Asante  Sefwi-Wiawso (WN/R), March 3, GNA — Staff of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) in the Western North Region have…

Social

Western North Fire Service Regional command marks safety week

March 3, 2025
GNA

By Alex Baah Boadi, Sefwi-Wiawso (WN/R), March 3, GNA – The Western North Regional Fire Service command has celebrated this year’s safety week with…

Education

First batch of Chirano Sefwiman Foundation Scholarship beneficiaries graduate  

March 2, 2025
GNA

By Alex Baah Boadi   Sefwi-Akoti (WN/R), March 2, GNA – The Chirano Sefwiman Foundation Scholarship Scheme has celebrated its first batch of beneficiaries at…

Health

Bodi District Health Directorate reviews performance for 2024

February 28, 2025
GNA

By Alex Gyawu Asante Bodi (WN/R), Feb. 28, GNA – The Sefwi Bodi District Health Directorate in the Western North Region has reviewed its…

Education

Couple provides Nsawora-Edumafua community with a new nursery block

February 28, 2025
GNA

By Alex Baah Boadi Sefwi -Nsawora(WN/R), Feb28, GNA – A Couple based in Sefwi-Wiawso has handed over an ultra -modern classroom block to the…

Social

Western North Region recorded 126 fire outbreaks last year   

February 20, 2025
GNA

By Alex Baah Boadi   Sefwi-Wiawso (WN/R), Feb. 20, GNA-The Western North Regional Fire Service, last year recorded 126 fire outbreaks as compared to 93…

Education

Sefwi-Wiawso senior high technical school appeals for furniture 

February 19, 2025
GNA

By Alex Baah Boadi,   Sefwi-Sommakrom (WN/R), Feb. 19, GNA-Mr Peter Obeng Nyamekye, Headmaster of Sefwi-Wiawso Senior High Technical School, has appealed to corporate institutions…

Court & Crime

Farmer granted bail for threatening to kill miner   

February 14, 2025
GNA

By Erica Apeatua Addo   Enchi (WN/R), Feb. 14, GNA-A 56-year-old farmer from  Nyankamam in the Aowin Municipality has appeared before the Enchi District Magistrate…