One person is said to be in critical condition after a gory accident at Sawla. According to reports, the Toyota Hilux with registration number GT 8478-16, they were traveling in from Sunyani to Wa hit a pothole, veered off the road, somersaulted and landed in a ditch. The four people in the vehicle were rushed…
The Wa Workers Cooperative Credit Union (WaCCU) in Wa has declared its surplus of sale of shares as at 1st July 2019 to 31st June 2020. Announcing the surplus amount at the 15th Annual General Meeting of the cooperative, the Manageress, Madam Alima stated that, a whopping 83,000 Ghana Cedis of surplus were realized in…
The Ghana Meteorological Agency (GMA) has said that the absence of readily available rainfall data from the Sissala East Municipality was affecting the timely release of weather information to the people in the area. This, the Agency said, was due to the absence of an active District Officer in the area to read and pick…
The Upper West Region Office of the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA), in collaboration with the Upper West Regional Pharmacy Council, has seized an undisclosed quantity of tramadol from three Over The Counter Medicine Sellers (OTCMSs) in the Wa Municipality. The OTCMSs were fined administrative charges of GH₵5000.00 each per the dictates of the Public…
The raging boardroom wrangling at the Precious Minerals Marketing Company (PMMC) has reached alarming heights as both the Managing Director of the company, Alhaji Sulemana Alhassan and the Board Chairman, Mr Kiston Akomeng Kissi, have separately petitioned the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, to intervene in the ongoing impasse. While the managing director wants the…
Senior lecturer and Dean of the graduate school of the University for Development Studies, Professor Elias Nortaa Kunedeb Sowley has been appointed as the Vice Chancellor of the Dr. Hilla Limann Technical University. Formerly Wa Polytechnic, the Governing Council of the Dr. Hilla Lamann Technical University on Monday, May 31, 2021 issued an official memo…
Immigration officials at Gwollu, a small town in the Upper West Region, have apprehended some Burkina Faso nationals who had travelled to Ghana through the unapproved routes. In a press release, the immigration revealed that the first group of Burkinabes captured on June 9, at 12:18, were seized onboard a Hyundai bus with registration number GS-4763-12…
Residents of Nako in the Wa West District of the Upper West Region have thanked the Member of Parliament of the area, Hon Supt. (rtd) Peter Lanchene Toobu for financing the construction of a temporal bridge at the community. The construction of the temporal bridge has become necessary after a 60 year old concrete bridge…
The Jirapa Constituency Communication Officer for NDC, Mr. Vitalis N-ekabong has confirmed that the Member of Parliament for Jirapa, Mr. Cletus Seidu Dapilah Supported in fixing a ripped off clinic of Jirapa-Duori after a heavy rainfall accompanied by a storm. Statement MP FOR JIRAPA FIXED RIPPED OFF CLINIC FOR THE PEOPLE OF DUORI ————————————- The…
Mr Sulemana Bakpa Mumuni, the Supervisor of the Regional Marketing Group (RMG), Cotton Division for the Sissala area in the Upper West Region, said the increase in the World Market price of Cotton gives a glimmer of hope. He said farmers in the area were reaping good results from cotton cultivation, following an 11.1 per…
The Tumu Business Resource center in partnership with Vision Fund has offered a financial support to women in small and medium scale business. The Tumu Business Resource center which started operations since the July, 2020 and under the Ministry of trade and Industry with the aim of bringing to the door steps people living in…
The 1972-77 year group of the Now Kanton Senior High School in Tumu has handed over a new borehole to the school for use. There was a short but very colorful ceremony organized to commission this gesture and was hosted in the premises of the school in Tumu, the Municipal Capital of Sisaala East in…
UWeCA personality of the year, Mr. Appiah Ernest Tara who doubles as Entertainment Pundit for Puopeli FM has reacted to a statement from a model by name Nuntaa Ella referring to 90% of Bloggers as Fake. In the statement reacting to the Comment of the Model and Fashion Designer, Ernest Tara Referred to the statement…
The Wa Central MP, Dr. Rashid Hassan Pelpuo has replied critics condemning his previous post as a mark incompetence. The Lawmaker called for a change in politics from begging to survive to being innovative. He sighted instances where people queued at his premises regularly to beg for money. He referred to comments following his previous…
The Upper West Regional Department of the Parks and Gardens (P&G) is to plant and nurture one thousand trees in two years under the grand agenda of the Parks and Gardens to plant one million trees nationwide in two years. The department would plant 500 trees in each year (2021 and 2022) as part of…
