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Damongo, Ghana – The Committee on the creation of the Savanna Region in the West Gonja District, has organised a float scheduled to take place on the principal streets of Damongo. The float is geared towards creating awareness for the referendum on the Savanna Region. The meeting for the float …

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 …

Nandom, Ghana – Assembly Members of the Nandom District, have been urged by the Chief Executive, Thaddeus Arkum Aasoglenang, to work harder as they finish the last lap of their tenure as Assembly Members in the various Electoral areas. Mr. Aasoglenang said there is the need to work harder to …

Nalerigu, Ghana – The Overlord (Nayiri) of the Mamprugu Kingdom, Naa Bohugu Abdulai Mahami Sheriga, has expressed his readiness to accept Mamprusis and Tampulmas from the North Gonja District of the Northern Region to the proposed North-East Region.The two ethnic groups have kicked against plans to have them added to …

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 …

Tamale, Ghana – The Upper East Regional Minister, Paulina Patience Abayage has opened the Upper East Agricultural Fair in Tamale with a call on residents to take advantage of guinea fowl production which the region produces about 60 percent for export to other regions. According to the Minister, the region …

Damongo, Ghana – A former Youth Organiser of the NDC in the Damongo constituency in the Northern Region, Alhaji Fusheini Alhassan popularly called Rambo has pledged to support former President John Dramani Mahama’s campaign with an amount of 20,000 Ghana cedis. In addition to the cash, the former Youth organizer …

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 …

Tamale, Ghana – The national youth leaders of the Abudu and Andani royal families of Dagbon in the Northern Region have made a clarion call to their colleagues to end their prolonged chieftaincy dispute.They have called on all members of both royal families to support the implementation of the roadmap …

In our series of letters from African writers, Ghanaian journalist Elizabeth Ohene says the government should ban funerals for people who fail to pay taxes.There is a saying, attributed to American founding father Benjamin Franklin, that there are only two certainties in life: death and taxes.Over here in Ghana, we …