Former President Mahama as Part of his visit and to condole the bereaved wife of Late Richard Puolibong Richard made a donation to the Widow of the Deceased to cut down the cost of the arrangements. Mr. John Dramani Mahama Donated Ghc12,000 to the Family at the funeral grounds at Saanwire in Daffiamah Bussie Issah…
Residents of Ghana’s Upper West Region are bearing the brunt of the economic hardship as data from the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) show that goods and services in that part of the country cost the most. The region recorded the highest rate of inflation among all the regions, 11.1 per cent, which is way above…
National Democratic Congress (NDC) youth group in Nadowli-Kaleo Constituency has threatened to decamp to the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) if Member of Parliament Mr Alban Bagbin wins the NDC’s upcoming parliamentary primaries. The Movement for Change youth group issued the warning during the launch of its activities at the Nadowli L/A Park on the…
The supervisor of Kaleo Senior High School Examination Centre for the 2019 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) has applauded the students for being disciplined and law-abiding following the examination instructions given by WAEC. He was interacting with the media after the English and Religious and Moral Education papers at the Examination Centre at Kaleo in…
The 160-bed new Upper West Regional Hospital is 99 percent complete but will not be opened until it is fully completed and staffed with trained personnel. The resident engineer at the Hospital, Ahmed Abo Shamaa, who led an inspection team to the facility, told reporters that the project was about 99 percent complete and would…
The Nandom District is the first to attain the status of an Open Defecation Free (ODF) district in the country. Being declared the first district in the country to attain ODF status implies that all households in the district have their own toilet facilities and no one defecated in the open. The district, which has…
Police in Wa on Friday evening June 14, 2019 gunned down a nigerian man and arrested another who were spotted by a woman (name withheld) perforating a hole on her house and in her quest to know their motive she was attacked by the two men with cuttlasses they were using. An onlooker who came…
A heavy rainstorm experienced in Wa between the hours of 6:58pm and 8:20pm on Friday 14th June 2019 has destroyed properties in the Western sections of Wa Municipality. The rain left high tension wires suspending on the ground, posing threat to people selling and staying by those electric wire cut by the heavy storm, this…
The 160-bed capacity new Upper West Regional Hospital is 99 percent complete but will not be opened for operations until it is fully completed and staff trained to handle sophisticated gadgets that have been installed. The Resident Engineer at the Hospital, Mr Ahmed Abo Shamaa, who led an inspection team to the facility, told reporters…
This investigation was the 9th of a series of audit/investigations intended to find substantial evidence to sack the current Medical Director, Dr. Barnabas B. Naa Gandau. This 9th edition was at the instruction of the Director General of Ghana Health Service after previous audits by BNI, EOCO, Regional Director of Health Service (RDHS), Hon. Regional…
Statement from the Hospital Dear Reader As we all intend to fight corruption in this country, I bring to your notice audit queries that emanated from an exhaustive investigation on expenses in the Upper West Regional Hospital between January 2016 and July 2017. This investigation was the 9th of a series of audit/investigations intended to…
Sites for dam construction have been given to contractors for the construction of seven small earth irrigation dams in the Upper West Region, where farmers have appealed for dams to venture into dry season farming. Minister of State at the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, Dr Gyiele Nurah, handed over the documents, which paved way…
GHANA STANDARDS AUTHORITY PRESS RELEASE The Ghana Standards Authority as part of its mandate to enforce the provisions of the Weights and Measures Act 1975, NRCD 326, has been inspecting fuel measuring and dispensing instruments in parts of the country after the first phase of the GSA routine national fuel measuring devices verification exercise. inspectors…
A teacher within Loggu in the Wa East district of Upper west has called on philanthropists to aid him with a solar panel to foster his stay in the district. According to the teacher by Name Leander Benjamin, electricity is not fully available and this has posed a challenge in his research and studies in…
The Regional branch of the National Democratic Congress, NDC in the Upper West Region has hit the streets demanding with immediate effect the commissioning of all governmental projects that have been stalled by Akufo-Addo government. The party members marched through the principal streets of the Upper Regional Capital, Wa to the newly constructed hospital where…
