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Kpembe, Ghana – The Kpembe Nursing and Midwifery Training College in the East Gonja Municipality on Saturday March 24, 2017 held its second graduation ceremony for a total of 1,484 students. The graduates included students who completed in 2012 with about 108 graduating with distinction from four programs comprising Nursing …

Wa, Ghana – Smallholder farmers in the Upper West Region are expected to increase sorghum yield from 1.75 metric tons to 4 metric tons per hectare, which is expected to produce a total of 8,000 metric tons per production season. This expected increase will decrease the high demand for the …

Wa, Ghana – Executive Director for Institutional Change and Economic Policy – Africa, Dr Yakubu Adams Sorekuong, has challenged leadership of the Wa East District Assembly in the Upper West Region to rise up and stop the harvesting of rosewood in the area. According to him, the lack of political …

Last month was one of my busiest month, travelling to Tarkwa for a speaking engagement. Something I have done three years in a row. But what made my recent visit an inspiring one for me is what I am about to share with you. It’s an encounter I had with …

Wa, Ghana – As the New Patriotic Party (NPP) gears up for its upcoming regional congress across the country to elect new regional executives, Saanbaye Basilide Kangbere popularly known as S.B Kangbere has filed his nomination forms to contest for the party’s chairmanship in the Upper West Region. He did …

Buipe, Ghana – David Avorgbedor alias Sabu, a contractor of the Savannah Cement Company Limited (Savacem) at Buipe in the Central Gonja District, whose employee lost his right arm through a machine, says he is ready to compensate him and take full responsibility of the upkeep of his six children …

Tamale, Ghana – The Concerned Youth of Nandom (CYN) has demanded that their Member of Parliament, Ambrose Dery, should come clear on claims that he has been using his personal resources to fund development projects particularly drilling of boreholes. “We do acknowledge and appreciate a few developmental projects on-going in the …

Salaga, Ghana – The Ghanaian Association of Madison (GHAMA) in the United States of America has donated six boxes of assorted medical consumables and surgical items to the Salaga Government Hospital through the Health and Sanitation Committee of the East Gonja District Assembly. Presenting the items on behalf of GHAMA …

So, many of us watched Paul Adom Otchere yesterday on Metro TV’s Good Evening Ghana, and he was in his usual element doing PR work for President Akufo Addo. I don’t really have a problem with him for what he used his program to do yesterday. In a less-paid job …

Tamale, Ghana – There are fast evolving changes taking place in all the areas of Ghana’s agricultural sector. The sector employs nearly 60 percent of the country’s total workforce. From the cultivation of thousands of acreages of cereal crops, tubers, vegetables, fruit-bearing trees to the rearing of herds of livestock …