Tag: Upper East Region
Communities encouraged to demand safe WASH facilities
Communities in the Upper East Region have been urged to demand for safe and sustainable Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) facilities from duty bearers...
Allegation: Chinese Mining Company cited for establishing gold refinery at Gbane without permits
The Shaanxi Mining (Ghana) Limited , a Chinese Mining company which is providing technical and mining support services to two...
Upper East is prepared for Green Ghana project
The Upper East Region is fully prepared for the Green Ghana project scheduled for Friday, June 11, 2021, says Mr Emmanuel Yeboah, the Regional...
NGO trains rice par-boilers on advanced business management
A Canadian non-governmental organization (NGO) SOCODEVI has trained about 25 rice par-boilers in Bolgatanga, Upper East Region, in advanced business management and leadership skills.
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Bolgatanga Technical University outdoors 10-year development planning committee
The Bolgatanga Technical University in the Upper East Region has inaugurated an eight-member strategic development planning committee to develop a 10-year long term strategic...
Free masons donate school uniforms to two Districts in Upper East Region
The District Grand Lodge of Ghana-English Constitution, has donated 750 school uniforms to three deprived schools in the Talensi District and Kassena-Nankana Municipality of...
Small scale mining will not help us – Tongraan
Paramount Chief of the Talensi Traditional area in the Upper East Region, Tongraan Kugbilsong Nanlebegtang, says small scale mining will not help in the...
Women farmers appeal for government support
Women farmers in the Talensi District of the Upper East Region are appealing to the government to prioritize their needs under its agricultural flagship...
Pork shortage drives prices up in Navrongo
Pork prices are up in the Navrongo Township, following a shortage of live pigs in the Kassena-Nankana Municipality in the Upper East Region.
Some owners...
Journalist gives to widows and orphans in Upper East Region
Mr Simon Blessing Agana, a journalist working for Word FM, a Bolgatanga East based radio station, has presented assorted items to vulnerable widows and...
Thank you for seeing value in me – Adongo
Mr Isaac Adongo, the Member of Parliament for Bolgatanga Central Constituency in the Upper East Region, has expressed gratitude to the constituents for choosing...
Women with disability trained in beads making
More than 40 Women with disability from the Upper East Region have been trained in beads making to enable them to engage in meaningful...
Road accident claim 33 lives in Upper East Region
At least 33 persons, including 30 males and three females, have been killed in road crashes in the Upper East Region in the first...
NGO enrolls girls into vocational training in Bongo
Advocacy for Social Inclusion and Girls Education (ASIGE), a Non-Governmental Organization, has enrolled 23 out-of-school girls in the Bongo District of the Upper East...
Daborinsa community gets CHPS Compound
Mr James Agalga, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Builsa North in the Upper East Region, has commissioned a Community-Based Health Planning and Services...
NGO solves water challenge at Ayopia KG-Primary School
The A-ensonga Hearts, a non-governmental organization (NGO), has constructed a borehole to provide potable water for pupils of Ayopia Kindergarten and Primary School in...
Garu MP Tours Constituency
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Garu constituency in the Upper East Region of Ghana, Mr. Albert Akuka Alalzuuga on the 3rd of April...
Ghana Health Service to distribute Insecticide-treated nets in Upper East Region
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) in the Upper East Region is to distribute Long Lasting Insecticide Treated Nets to...
Paramount Chief blames armed robbery attacks on violent movies
The Paramount Chief of the Builsa Traditional Area in the Builsa North Municipality of the Upper East Region, Sandem-Nab Azaksuk Azantillow, has attributed the...
Extend investigation to Upper East Region– Mining groups
Some registered Small Scale Mining Groups at the Gbane community in the Talensi District of Upper East Region have called on the Ministry of...
ReCAS College trains graduates to be self-employed
The College of Applied Sciences (ReCAS) at Kansoe in the Bongo District of the Upper East Region is focusing on equipping graduates with skills...
Nabdam women receive training on pigs and guinea fowls farming
Some selected women from the Nabdam District of the Upper East Region have been trained to venture into pigs and guinea fowls farming to...
Gbeogo School for the Deaf gets electricity
The Aide á la vulnèrabillitè, a health and charity-based group in Bolgatanga has provided electricity to a new boys’ dormitory block of the Gbeogo...
Criminal Assizes launched in Upper East Region
The Judiciary Service in the Upper East Region has launched the 2021 Criminal Assizes at the Bolgatanga High Court with a call on stakeholders...
Spiritualist before Court for killing wife and daughter
Mbawona Tindana, a 35-year old traditional spiritualist from Kolpelga in the Talensi District of the Upper East Region has appeared before the Bolgatanga High...
Bolgatanga Department of Social Welfare solving 18 marriage-related cases
The Department of Social Welfare in the Bolgatanga Municipality of Upper East Region has so far received and currently working on 18 marriage disputes...
A total of 1,024 new households in Bolgatanga Municipal enrolled on LEAP
About 1,024 deprived households in the Bolgatanga Municipality of the Upper East Region, have been newly enrolled onto the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty...
ActionAid Ghana trains female extension Volunteers
ActionAid Ghana, a Non-Governmental Organization has trained some women in the Upper East Region on agriculture extension services, to enable them to provide extension...
UER records high yields in major crops
The Upper East Region has recorded higher yields in its major crops except sorghum in 2020 as compared to 2019, despite the poor rainfall...
MEDA commissions Shea butter Centres in Kassena-Nankana West
The Mennonite Economic Development Associates (MEDA), an international economic development organization has constructed and handed over three shea butter processing centres to three women...