Human Rights

Damongo, Ghana – Two teenage boys in Damongo in the West Gonja District of the Northern Region are currently in the grips of the law for raping a young girl and sharing nude videos and pictures of their wicked act meted out to the victim. According to Bole based Nkilgi …

Bolgatanga, Ghana –  Paulina Patience Abayage, the Upper East Regional Minister, has advised students in the country especially the Bolgatanga Technical Institute (BOTECH) to endeavour to follow laid down procedures and channels of communication to address their grievances. From the Students’ Representative Council to School Management to District Education Office …

Wa, Ghana – Inspector Niabi Stella, the Station Officer for the Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU) of the Ghana Police Service in the Upper West Region, has called on men t be part of the advocacy to end domestic violence against women. She said there was the need …

Damongo, Ghana – The Linguist of the Palace of the Overlord and King of Gonja called Alhaji Afuli Losina has said that he is still at post discharging his traditional duties as the linguist of Yagbonwura and therefore entreated the people of Gonjaland to disregard a rife rumour that he …

Salaga, Ghana – Police personnel have been deployed to the East Gonja District of the Northern Region in search of Asuma Sulley, a teacher at the Salaga Senior High School for allegedly shooting a student. Drumbeatsgh.com.com gathers that the victim, Mohammed Abdul- Rauf, 18, a final year student of the Salaga Senior …

Bimbilla, Ghana – As part of the global campaign against violence, over 900 women groups in the Nanumba District of the Northern Region have presented a petition to the District Chief Executive (DCE) Abdulai Yaqoub. Women in rural areas are often marginalized in the management of the home. They have …

Koforidua, Ghana – The National Coordinator of the Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP), Dr. Kwame Adu Nsiah has said that the Government has solid plans to migrate the Junior High Schools (JHS) onto the school feeding programme immediately when all the primary schools in Ghana are fully covered. He said …

Tamale, Ghana – The Northern Regional Director of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), Alhaji Abdul Razak, has observed that if Ghanas business sector is going to grow then citizens would have to an enabling environment devoid of corruption. He said the biggest issue currently confronting private sector development …

Tamale, Ghana – A former investigative journalist with the Chronicle Newspaper, Edmond Gyebi, has appealed to President Nana Akufo-Addo to consider taking action against two soldiers who severely brutalized Christopher Bama for allegedly stealing a mobile phone. The two soldiers, Corporal Sampson Atuahene who is owner of the mobile phone and …

Tamale, Ghana – Renowned Ghanaian human rights and investigative journalist, Edmond Gyebi, has chastised the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) for their lackadaisical attitude towards a case of severe human rights violations involving a 16-year old boy brought before it about 3 years ago. Christopher Bama, who …