Human Rights

Wa, Ghana – Acting Upper West Regional Director of the Department of Children, Madam Matilda Chireh, has applauded the Ghana Education Service (GES) for the ban on caning in Primary and Senior High schools in the country. Though some people are of the opinion that Ghana risks a total breakdown of …

Wa, Ghana – Statistics from the Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU) of the Ghana Police Service in the Upper West Region show that cases of assault increased in the region in 2018. The region in 2018 recorded 196 assault cases against 179 cases reported to the Unit in …

Bole, Ghana – Bole based Nkilgi 103.7Fm, has stumbled on a petition by some members pf the Savannah Region Coordinating Committee (names withheld) to the Chairperson of the Technical Committee for the Determination of Regional Capitals at the Ministry of Regional Reorganization and Development to make Fufulso in the Central …

Bole, Ghana – The District Chief Executive (DCE) for Bole Madam Veronica Alele Heming has said the contractor who worked on the Seripe to Dakurpe and Kabilma road in the Bole District did shoddy work resulting in washing away of part of the road that three boys on a motor …

Tamale, Ghana – Government’s ability to solve the Dagbang chieftaincy matters has emboldened a group calling itself the Concerned Citizens of Nanung in collaboration with the Local Mediation Team to plead with government to turn its attention to the Nanung Traditional Area where there are similar challenges. The group’s President, …

Bole, Ghana – Nkilgi FM is picking information that Assembly members of the Sawla-Tuna-Kalba District in the newly created Savannah Region are organising themselves for a vote of ‘No confidence’ against the District Chief Executive (DCE), Lawal Tamimu over accusations that he decided to keep money belonging to them. The …

Jinfranu, Ghana – A 60 year old farmer Adam Natomah, has shot to death his wife at Jinfranu in the North Gonja District of the Northern Region. The man who shot himself in the neck after killing the wife was rushed to the West Gonja District hospital at Damongo alongside …

Sawla, Ghana – President of the Ghana Federation of Disability Organizations, David Aniah, has entreated Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies to give persons with disabilities under their care the opportunity to decide what they want to do with their share of allocation in the District Assemblies Common Fund. Speaking to stakeholders …

Bole, Ghana – The Youth of Bole met on Sunday and took a decision to fight for the curfew imposed on theit district to be lifted. At a charged meeting at the Old Community Centre in Bole, the youth also pledged to unite to fight to restore peace and unity …

Damongo, Ghana – The Overlord of the Gonja Kingdom, Yagbonwura Tuntumba Boresa (I) has proposed Damongo in the West Gonja District to be named as the regional capital of the newly created Savanna region. In a speech read on his behalf at the first post referendum stakeholders forum of the …