The Municipal Chief Executive for Lawra, Hon. Martin Bomba-ire on the 9th of August 2020, donated some items to  workers of the Zoomlion company in Lawra Municipality. The items which include Veronica buckets, gallons of liquid soap, tissue papers, hand sanitizers etc were presented to the Lawra Municipal Manager in the presence of the workers…

Eleven students of Wa Technical Institute in Upper West have been suspended indefinitely on the 4th of August 2020 for breaking school rules and regulations. According to the school’s principal, Saaka Adams, the students went home without signing an exeat whilst others were spotted with mobile phones, this development according to him has been a challenge with final…

An estimated GHC1.5 million  has been lost to rainstorms across all municipal and district assemblies in the Upper West Region in 2020, affecting 1,002 rooms and 17 classroom blocks whose roofs have been completely or partly ripped off. The Upper West Minister, Dr Hafiz Bin Salih, made this disclosure at the inauguration of a ten-member…

The government of Ghana has presented 12 buses to senior high schools in the Upper West Region. This follows the distribution of 100 buses to senior high schools across the country. The Upper West Region received 12 of the 32-seater buses, which were given out to schools that have no means of transport and need…

The European Union/German Development Cooperation (GIZ) funded Resilience Against Climate Change (REACH) Project has planted a total of 22,000 tree seedlings in the Upper West and Savannah Regions of the Northern Ecological Zone. The tree planting exercise, which was carried out in six pilot districts across each of the 18 baseline communities in the two…

The Registrar-General, the Official Liquidator for defunct Diamond Microfinance Limited (DKM), has announced that it will from 1st September, begin the payment process of dividends to depositors who submitted new claims. The announcement follows a similar one in February this year where the Registrar-General, the Official Liquidator has asked depositors to collect their payments from…

It is announced for the attention of the general public that Simon Diedong Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Studies (SDD-UBIDS), a public Tertiary Education Institution established by an Act of Parliament SDD-UBIDS Act 2019 (Act 1001), located in the Upper West Regional Capital, Wa, Ghana, is inviting qualified students to apply for admission…

Community Health Nurse stationed at Tarsor ,a community within the Sissala east municipality was allegedly assaulted on Tuesday 28th July, 2020 in the Community. Nurses have for some times now, come under attack by some section of the public as they are either robbed off of their personal belongings or beaten with the recent being…

Mr Ahlex Kontor, the Past President of the Rotary Club of Wa, has announced plans by the club to improve access to potable water and good sanitation in the Upper West Region. As part of the agenda, the Club had collaborated with Rotary Club of Windsor in Canada to construct 12 boreholes in the Upper…

A total of 19 communities located in the Sissala East Municipality, Sissala West and Wa West Districts of the Upper West Region have been declared free from child marriage through the efforts of the Girls Advocacy Alliance (GAA) project. The breakdown includes; Sissala East Municipality, four communities; Sissala West District, six communities; and Wa West…