UER: 196 communities attain ODF status through CRS’s ICOWASH project
By: Franklin ASARE-DONKOH 196 communities in three districts in the Upper East region have been declared Open Defecation Free (ODF), while nine (9) existing ODF communities migrated to sanitised community status. The 205 ODF and sanitised communities, which are within the Talensi, Mamprugu Moagduri Districts, and West Mamprusi Municipalities, achieved these remarkable successes through the […]
UNICEF, Births and Deaths Registry begin mass registration in Upper East Region
The Births and Deaths Registry in collaboration with UNICEF is conducting an emergency mobile mass registration exercise in some selected Districts in the Upper East Region. This is part of the process to attain universal vital registration to aid government’s plan and develop socio-economic programmes with the use of a reliable and credible data. The […]
Farmer jailed three years for defiling eight-year-old girl in Upper East Region
A Bolgatanga Circuit Court has sentenced a farmer to three years imprisonment for defiling an eight-year-old girl at Kanga, a suburb of Zorko in the Bongo District of the Upper East Region. Yaw Apuriyuure Azorkosakiya, 19 years, was accused of defiling a female child below age 16 contrary to the Criminal and Other Offences Act […]
Form 1 & 2 students of Binduri SHS to return to school on Monday
By: Peter Agengre First and Second year students of the Binduri Senior High School (SHS) in the Upper East Region are expected back in school next week Monday. School authority says the caterer has been contacted and she would be back on campus to provide them with the hot meal. At a management meeting at […]
Builsa Community Bank Holds its 22nd Annual General Meeting at Sandema
By: Emmanuel Akayeti The Builsa Community Bank Limited (BUCO Bank) has organized its 22nd Annual General Meeting at the Azenro Social Centre, Sandema in the Upper East Region. It was held to review 2021, Annual report of the shareholders of the Bank, and elect new Directors in place of those retiring. The meeting started with […]
Regional Psychiatric Hospital in Upper East Region dedicated
By: Emmanuel Akayeti The Presbyterian Church of Ghana (PCG), Upper Presbytery (UP), has dedicated a 10-bed capacity specialist Regional Psychiatric hospital in the Upper East Region. The facility, one of the Presbyterian Primary Health care centers, has been upgraded to a specialist Psychiatric hospital for the Region. The 10-bed capacity specialist Psychiatric hospital has two Consulting rooms, a nurses’ station, […]
Upper East Region gets Specialist Psychiatric Hospital
The Presbyterian Church of Ghana has refurbished an existing staff accommodation block on the premises of its Health Centre in Bolgatanga into a Specialist Psychiatric Hospital for the Upper East Region. The 10-bed capacity specialist facility, jointly funded by the “Friends of Bawku” based in the Netherlands and valued at about €43,000, has two consulting […]
5 miners trapped to death in galamsey pit in North East region
By Murtala Issah At least five persons have been trapped to death at the Nangurumah mining site in the Mamprugu Moaduri District of the North East region. The five are said to be indigenes of Yizesi, a community in the district. In an interview with GBC News, the North East Regional Director for the National […]
NAVASCO UE/R: “No food is leaving the hall” policy not in force due to lack of space
By: Peter Agengre In a bid to give back to society, the old students association of Navrongo Senior High School (NAVASCO) in the Upper East Region (UE/R) deemed it necessary to come to the aid of their alma mater by donating some tables and benches for the school’s dining hall. They observed there was the […]
Sumbrungu, Asige: Teenage Mothers receive vocational skills training
By Samuel Ayamah Twenty teenage mothers have been enrolled in vocational skills training in the Bolgatanga Municipality of the Upper East Region. This move is part of efforts to reduce unemployment and poverty among teenage mothers through basket weaving. The Advocacy for Social Inclusion and Girls Education, ASIGE, established in 2016, has worked with vulnerable […]