Human Rights

Kpandai, Ghana – The Konkomba Community in the Kpandai District is outraged about the attempt being made by some individuals to exclude the district from the proposed Savannah Region and will reject such a move by persons behind this mischievous act. A statement signed by the Vice Chairman of the …

Damongo, Ghana – The King and Overlord of the Gonja Kingdom, Yagbonwura Tuntumba Boresa Sulemana Jakpa I has accepted the proposed creation of the Savanah Region without the Kpandai District. Speaking at a closed door meeting attended by Chiefs and Opinion leaders as well as stakeholders across Gonjaland at the …

Damongo, Ghana – The youth of Damongo in the West Gonja District of Northern Region have cautioned chiefs, politicians, religious and other opinion leaders to stop interfering in matters of criminality being handled by the police. They claim it is because the criminals have people who always come to their …

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 …