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Buipe, Ghana – The Paramount Chief of the Buipe Traditional Area in the Central Gonja District of the Northern Region, Jira Buipe Wura Abdulai Jinapor II, is celebrating the 10th anniversary of his enskinment.Dr Ahmed Jinapor, lecturer at the University of Education, Winneba, who serves as spokesperson for the Buipe …

Buipe, Ghana – Paramount Chief of the Buipe Traditional Area, Buipewura Abdulai Jinapor (II) on Saturday launched the 10 years of his enskinment as the Paramount Chief. The launch was well attended by chiefs, sons and daughters including politicians from the Buipewura’s Traditional Area. Chiribonwura Kipo Harrison Salifu who read the …

Accra, Ghana – Member of Parliament for the Nandom Constituency – Ambrose Dery – has supported seven (7) of his Constituents to embark on a Christian religious pilgrimage to Israel. This gesture was in fulfillment of one of his campaign promises to assist some Christians, just like he had been doing …

Wa, Ghana – The Upper West Regional Security Council (REGSEC) has decided to cancel the permits of 24 companies that submitted permits to salvage rosewood in the region. The decision came after it realized that any time the companies were asked to come and salvage rosewood, they rather came and …

Bole, Ghana – Legal Resources Centre (LRC), the implementer of USAID funded Ghana Strengthening Accountability Mechanism (GSAM) project in the Bole District has organised its fourth year town hall meeting at Bole on the performance of the Bole District Assembly on capital development projects. The meeting which brought together various stakeholders …

Grassroots Sisterhood Foundation is a women-led organization working to enhance power relation in poor communities of Northern Ghana. Over a decade GSF has strived to ensure the voices of women are heard in various spaces be it on human rights, economic or social justice. In the process we have established …

Tamale, Ghana – Available statistics suggest that women account for 70% of production of subsistence crops and form about 90% of the labour force in the marketing of farm produce in Ghana. In Northern Ghana, women are engaged in the planting, weeding, harvesting and post-harvesting stages of all types of …

  Tamale, Ghana – Northern Regional Director of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) has challenged district managers of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) to work hard so that the authority can attain its regional and national targets. In spite of the authority’s inability to fully attain its 2018 …

Fred is a young entrepreneur from Ghana and the founder of the African Leadership Group, which is preparing the next generation of African leaders. He is also part of the Goalkeepers event happening later this month in New York City, which our foundation helped organize to accelerate progress toward the …

Walewale, Ghana – The havoc caused by torrential rains in the Northern Region is deepening as more farmlands along the White Volta have been submerged with several lives lost.At least 10 farming communities in the area have been severely affected with about 1,105 acres (442 hectares) of crop lands consumed …