Human Rights

Tamale, Ghana – The Tamale Central Prison (TCP) has forcibly accommodated more inmates causing overcrowding. The facility is overstretched as it accommodates over 300 inmates, with a cell housing 30 inmates which is against the international standard of a cell housing at most four inmates.  The prison was built to …

Kiape, Ghana – Dagaaba settlers at Kiape, a community near Bole in the Bole District of the Northern Region woke up in the morning of last Friday to meet the mass killing of their pigs. A member of the community called Andrews Dery, in an interview with Bole based Nkilgi …

Sawla, Ghana – The Wife of the District Chief Executive for the Sawla-Tuna-Kalba District of the Northern Region, Madam Abubakri Ziinatu alias Confidence, last Friday issued a thunderous slap in the face of the New Patriotic Party’s Constituency Chairman, Mohammed Fuseini over what she described as an attempt by the …

Nandom, Ghana – Security has been heightened at Nandom in the Upper West Region after a bloody clash erupted over a love affair involving a Wangara male and a Mossi lady.At least, one person sustained cutlass wounds in the melee, Upper West Regional Minister and head of the Regional Security …

Nandom, Ghana – Security has been heightened at Nandom in the Upper West Region after a bloody clash erupted over a misunderstanding.One person who sustained machete wounds on his head, has been taken to the hospital.A house was torched in the melee.Radio Freed’s Mohammed Abdulai reported on Friday, 24 August …

Tamale, Ghana – The eminent leaders of Tamale in the Northern Region have called on government to facilitate the transfer of all heads of department at the Tamale Teaching Hospital (TTH).They are also demanding that government audit the operations of the hospital.These demands were contained in a communiqué jointly signed …

Accra, Ghana – A 50-year-old man, Kamal Yusif, who lives in Abeka, a suburb of Accra has given his 12-year-old JHS 1 daughter out in early marriage to a 25-year old man, Hakeem.Hakeem, who lives in Accra Newtown, works with a company at the North Industrial area in Accra.The secret …

Bole, Ghana – The Bole District Police in the Northern Region have picked three dead bodies believed to be herdsmen in the area.A team of police investigators, a medical officer of the Bole Government Hospital and an environmental health officer of the Bole District Assembly, visited the crime scene at …

Bole, Ghana – The DCE for Bole, Madam Veronica Alele Heming, has donated 10 bags of maize to the Association of Persons Living With HIV in Bole so that they can also enjoy the Muslim Edul-Adha festival. The DCE said she is prepared to help everyone including sick people and …

Bole, Ghana – A youth group in Bole called Constituency Watch Bole-Bamboi is demanding an unqualified apology from the Chief Executive Officer of Ghana COCOBOD Joseph Boahen Aidoo for describing the building and renovation of a COCOBOD guest house at Bole sometime ago as a “frivolous activity” and undeserving for …