Over 20 communities in the Sissala East municipality have been cut off from Tumu after 12 hours of torrential rains. A concrete bridge on the feeder road connecting Tumu to the communities has all been washed away leaving the whole concrete hanging in the middle of the road. According to Anass from Kassana, one of…
Nine out of the 11 Municipal and District Assemblies in the Upper West Region have turned a deaf ear on the payment of various amounts of money agreed upon as ex-gratia to their former Assembly members. The nine include; Wa, Jirapa, Lawra, and Nandom Municipalities as well as Wa West, Nadowli-Kaleo, Lambussie, Daffiama-Bussie-Issa, and Wa…
A youth Activist within the Wa Municipality has gone on self Isolation after some signs and symptoms of Coronavirus reflected in him. Statement “I have for the past few day’s been feeling unwell and it is a near death experience. I could not breath, swallow food, feeling dizzy, vomiting, fever. The test result show’s that…
The Gold mining site situated between Takpo and Nanvilli in the Nadowli-Kaleo District has been shaky since yesterday 14th July 2020. Some Angry youth from Nanvilli stormed the site with weapons including Cutlasses, Guns and Spears, these group of Nanvillee accused the people in Takpo of trying to claim ownership of the land on which…
THE YOUTH OF TODAY AND FREE THINGS MENTALITY : WHAT IS WRONG Do the rapid developments in artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and blockchain, along with the need for greater cybersecurity, signal another network revolution? In an age of algorithms that seem to anticipate one’s every need or desire—smartphones, drones, and driverless cars—it’s easy to think…
Students of Lawra SHS on 12th July staged a demonstration against school authorities after rejecting food served them. The students who initially expected to be served Jollof Rice with Eggs were served T.Z with Dry Okro Soup for Lunch, this raised pulse in the school with the final year students rejecting the food. They threatened…
Vigilant Immigration Officials in the Lawra Sector Command upon a tip-off have busted ten Burkina Faso nationals who had entered into Ghana through unapproved routes ostensibly to journey to Sunyani for farming and trading activities. The illegal migrants were made up of nine (09) males and a female. Their ages ranged between 16 and 48…
Not A Good Time To Belong To NPP/NDC _Wa Central. POLITICS OF INSULTS. Hmm,this is fast deepening into our midst. We are one with a common sense of purpose. This game politics has come to bind us together. Better still,instill discipline into the fabrics of society. It is a channel to bring developmental activities to…
Two communities in the Upper West region can now boast of potable drinking water after Cowbell commissioned a borehole in each town. The communities, Furo and Dewuoh which are both located in the Lawra Municipal Assembly of the region hitherto did not have access to safe drinking water. Addressing the chiefs and people of both…
The Upper West Regional House of Chiefs led by its President, Naa Kuoro Richard Babini Kanton VI, Paramount Chief of the Tumu traditional area has commended the Northern Development Authority (NDA) for the implementation of a large number of infrastructural projects across the region. This was after the Board and Management of the Authority (NDA)…
Some women from Tangasia visited the premises of Tumpaani 88.5fm to lay a complaint to the station about their crops being destroyed by the construction of a dam under the one village one dam project. The construction has just started at where there are so many farms around with crops. According to the aggrieved women,…
The Music Union of Ghana (MUSIGA) Upper West Region has received food items which included bags of Rice, milk, sardines ,sugar etc. from the National Musiga on 17th June, 2020. Haruna Abdul-Aziz the upper west regional Musiga Secretary filled this report: A meeting was held upon the receipt amongst some executives and some elders including the…
The New Patriotic Party’s Parliamentary Candidate for Wa East Constituency, Hon. Salifu Yakubu has earlier this morning cut sod for construction of seven (7) boreholes in the Wa East District. The Parliamentary Candidate, Hon. Salifu Yakubu in a brief interaction explained that the boreholes are to be sited at some selected major market centres in the district. The PC’s…
The Governing Council of newly established Simon Diedong Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Studies (SDD-UBIDS) has paid a courtesy call on the Upper West Regional Minister Dr Hafiz Bin Salih. The call was to formally introduce the governing council to the Minister and to reiterates its position to bring the needed development to…
The ongoing voter registration exercise, by the Electoral Commission (EC) across all 120 registration centres in the Upper West Region has so far been smooth. Out of these 120 registration centres, Wa Municipality has 19, Wa East 12, Wa West 14, Nadowli-Kaleo 11, Daffiama-Buissie-Issa seven, Sissala West eight, Jirapa 14, Lambussie eight, and nine each…
