Tag: UWR
Cerebrospinal Meningitis deaths soar to 40 in UWR
Dr Hafiz Bin Salih, the Upper West Regional Minister, has indicated that the region has recorded 258 cases of Cerebrospinal Meningitis (CSM) with 40...
Local Government Ministry disinfects markets in UWR
The Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development (MLGRD) has scheduled Wednesday April 1, 2020 to disinfect markets in all eleven districts and...
Northern Development Authority cuts sod for projects in UWR
The Northern Development Authority (NDA) has cut sod for the construction of an emergency ward at the Lawra Municipal...
Deputy Minister launches campaign on five thematic areas
Mr Amidu Chinnia Issahaku, the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) aspiring Parliamentary candidate for the Sissala East Constituency has launched his campaign agenda focused on...
Paramount Chief urges government to work on Wa-Tumu Road
The Paramount Chief of the Tumu Traditional Area, Kuoro Richard Babini Kanton has appealed to government to work on the Wa-Tumu trunk road to...
Four women win District Assembly elections in UWR
Only Four out of 18 women who contested the December 17 District Level Election (DLE) in the Upper West Region won to represent their...
Farmers advised to practise Integrated Soil Fertility Management
Dr Alhassan Lansah Abdulai, an Agro-Meteorologist at the Wa office of the Savannah Agricultural Research Institute of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research...
Nineteen females to contest Assembly Elections in UWR
Nineteen females have filed their nominations with the Electoral Commission to contest the upcoming Assembly Member Elections in the Upper West Region, out of...
Minister urges doctors to accept posting to UWR
Dr Hafiz Bin Salih, the Upper West Regional Minister, has appealed to medical doctors and other critical staff to accept posting to the...
NABCO implementing partners told to inculcate discipline among personnel
Implementing partners of various modules of the Nation Builders Corps (NABCO) have been advised to instil discipline among personnel to ensure successful implementation of...
Pigbengben pregnant women denied timely access to healthcare
The people of Pigbengben in Wa West District are concerned about inability of their pregnant women and children to access timely healthcare services due...
PFJs Have Made Agricultural Much Cheaper
Farmers in Domowa, a predominantly farming community in the Wa West District, have praised the introduction of the Planting for Food and Jobs (PFJs)...
Upper West Women Farmers to receive credit facilities
An advocacy organisation, House of Liberation for Empowerment (HOLIFE) has given the assurance that women farmers in Upper West will receive credit facilities for...
Domowa Residents Outlines the Benefits of Household Toilet
Residents of Domowa in Wa West District have indicated owning household latrines has brought relief to them as the community no longer experiences sanitation...
UWR Hosts 1st Agribusiness Conference
The first ever Agribusiness Fair and Conference has been held in Wa, the Upper West Regional capital, to boost agricultural investment and raise public...
UWR Gradually Becoming an Environmental Danger Zone
“As you sow, so shall you reap”
On one faithful Saturday morning in Wa, the Upper West Regional Capital, this writer was on his retinue...
Nadowli-Kaleo farmer appeals for irrigation dam
A leading dry season farmer at Duong in the Nadowli-Kaleo District has appealed to government to extend the One-Village-One-Dam (1V1D) project to the community...
U/WR Community Water and Sanitation Devoted to Delivering on Their Mandate
The Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA) in Upper West has expressed its commitment to deliver on its mandate of ensuring access to potable...
Food Security Remains Threatened Due to Hostile Climate Conditions
Dr. Iddrisu Yahaya, an Economist at the Savanna Agricultural Research Institute of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR-SARI), has said the hostile...
UWR: Drug Agencies to Fight Tramadol Abuse
Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) in partnership with Narcotics Control Board and Pharmacy Council on Tuesday engaged stakeholders in a six-hour forum on combating...
UWR: 8 factories to be built under governments 1D1F
Government has approved for the construction of eight factories in Upper West Region under the “One District One Factory” (1D1F) initiative as part of...
Local authorities negotiate with landlords to support women farmers
Traditional authorities in Lambussie District of Upper West Region are working closely with landlords and persuading husbands to release productive lands for women farmers...
Lambussie Women Farmers gets assistance from Care international
CARE International-Ghana, a Nongovernmental Organisation (NGO), is helping women farmers in Lambussie District of the Upper West Region to document and secure farm lands...
Parliamentary committee on Water Resources pays working visit to UWR
Members of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Water Resources and Sanitation have paid a day’s working visit to the Upper West Region to acquaint...
UWR: over 100 non-prescription medicine sellers undergo training
A total of 114 newly registered over-the-counter medicine sellers from 11 Municipalities and Districts in the Upper West Region have been trained by the...
Women Farmers, 3 Communities Benefit From C4C Project
A total of 98 women benefitted from subsidized ploughing services and soya seed bank project in the communities of Boo in Jirapa District and...
Government asked to give priority to female farmers
Mr. Ibrahim Akalbila, the Coordinator of the Ghana Trade and Livelihood Coalition has appealed to the government to give the needed attention to female...
Over 17,000 farmers join PJFs in UWR
A total of 17,063 smallholder farmers have subscribed to the Government’s Planting for Food and Jobs (PJFs) programme in the Upper West Region.
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EC Affirms Ambrose Dery’s Win for Nandom Constituency
The supporters of the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) jubilated when the Electoral Commission declared Mr. Ambrose P. Dery as the winner of the Parliamentary...
Elders, youth Appeals against a teacher’s transfer
The youth and elders of Funsi in the Wa East District of the Upper West Region, have protested against the transfer of the Assistant...