Human Rights

Bole, Ghana – Seven persons have been arrested by police in the Northern Region in relation to violence in Salaga yesterday that resulted in the burning of the NPP constituency office and some party billboards. The arrests have been confirmed by the Northern Region Police PRO DSP Yussif Tanko. He assured …

Salaga, Ghana – Some irate youth of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) in Salaga on Tuesday set the party’s constituency office on fire minutes after President Nana Akufo-Addo named Damongo as the capital for the newly-created Savannah Region.The youth also chased out the party’s constituency executives, who were seen …

Bole, Ghana – Some residents of Bole have threatened to hit the streets of Bole if a popular Dam in Bole town called Pompigbon is not worked on by the end of this month February, 2019. The Preaident of the Constituency Watch Bole- Bamboi Haruna Abudulai Obey explained that more …

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 …