Sequel to the earlier publication of the Lawra Municipal Assembly block getting a face-lift, work has finally commenced to give it a befitting status as a municipality. We recall that this renovation exercise was expected to start somewhere last year, (2020) in fulfillment of the then Hon Member of Parliament, Anthony Abayifaa Karbo’s promise to…
A Joint Police & Military operation is currently ongoing in the Upper West Region. The operation took the joint security forces to a popular drinking bar in Wa on Wednesday evening where over 13 alleged prostitutes believed to hail from Nigeria were arrested. Some other persons were also arrested from the same drinking spot where…
Contrary to Section 52 of the Public Financial Management Act (PFMA) 2016, (Act 921), management of three Assemblies in the Upper West Region purchased various items from the District Assemblies Common Fund (DACF) and the Members of Parliament’s Common Fund (MPCF) valued at GHC 287,102 but failed to provide store receipt vouchers, records of usage…
The Upper West Regional Director of Health Services, Dr Damien Punguyire, has appealed to the people in the region to avail themselves of the ongoing yellow fever vaccination exercise in the area for the sake of the health of the public. He said although the exercise was aimed at protecting people from the high yellow…
The Upper West Regional Health Promotion Officer for Ghana health Service, Mr. John Vianney Markpe has reportedly threatened a Reporter with the Upper West Media Team, Mr. Tuorimuo Elvis Philip for Revealing that some dose of Vaccines are ‘suspected’ to have resulted in people losing their lives in Wa. According to the Reporter, Mr. John…
Upper West Regional Minister, Dr Hafiz Bin Salih in a statement issued in Wa says the Cerebrospinal Meningitis (CSM) ravages the region has so far claimed 44 lives. The Minister indicated that 30 cases with one death were recorded over the past two weeks, bringing the total number of cases in the region to 303…
Kanton Senior High School(Kansec) 2021 National Science and Maths Quiz contestants were received in a heroic welcome. The team which sailed through to the one-eigth(1/8) stage of the competition was eliminated together with St. Augustine’s College in the their quarter-finals stage by Chemu SHS. That notwithstanding, on November 20, 2021, Kansec Old Students Association(KOSA), students…
Some residents in the Lambussie District in the Upper West Region have expressed mixed reactions on the 2022 Budget Statement and Economic Policy of government presented by the Finance Minister, Mr Ken Ofori-Atta before Parliament on Wednesday. While some described it as satisfactory, others described it as worrying especially with the introduction of new taxes…
The District Chief Executive for Wa East District Hon. Dr. Ewurah Suleman Kandia has directed all heads of the various decentralized departments operating outside the district to relocate their offices to Funsi, the District Capital of the Wa East district by close of 2021. According to Hon. Dr. Ewurah Suleman Kandia, the practice, where some…
The Upper West Regional Director of Health Services, Dr. Damien Punguyure has disclosed that six persons have died from yellow fever in the region. This comes after the Wenchi Methodist Hospital lost two referred patients. According to him, no patient is currently under treatment for the disease in the region although four others were previously…
All the 117 inmates of the Wa Central Prisons have tested negative for Covid-19, Assistant Director of Prisons, Upper West Regional Commander of the Ghana Prisons Service, Francis Selorm Hagbe has stated. He said their focus was now on prevention to which they had strengthened their response mechanisms to ensure the safety of all inmates…
A past student of Nandom Senior High School in the Upper West Region has shared some of the challenges being without a good job brought him Cletus Saabesagr shared that he acquired a GPA of 4.97 after his bachelor’s degree in Oil and Gas and a 5.00 GPA after his masters. The young man revealed…
A Teen age Boy[Name Withheld] is currently suffering from kidney failure in the Nadowli District Hospital. The ‘poor’ boy is left with his mother and no other support to give him life again except that support from you now financially. He has been referred to the Upper West Regional Hospital and that little support from…
The Sissala East Municipal Assembly has refused to adopt the MCE Hon. Fuseini Batong Yakubu’s speech as an authentic document due to a missing item about a contract for supply of 600 dual desks for basic schools in Sissala East. The contract awarded to NuruGan Enterprise in an amount of 371,250.00 cedis which was to…
Workers of Simon Diedong Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Studies are on Strike and haven’t Received their October Salary from their former Mother Campus the University for Development Studies. Statement. We, the workers’ unions of the Simon Diedong Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Studies (SDD-UBIDS), namely, University Teachers Association of Ghana…
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