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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 …

Member of Parliament of the Nandom Constituency, Ambrose Dery has honoured his promise to one Bogsor Naab Emmanuel, a former student of Ko Senior High School and now a student of Bagabaga College of Education in Tamale. As part of the MP’s drive to improve performance of students in his …

Nandom, Ghana – Nandom, is poised for a bumper harvest this year as a result of governments flagship Agricultural policy-Planting for Food and Jobs and the good rainfall pattern in the last few months. This was realized during a tour of some selected farms across Nandom by the District Chief …

Tamale, Ghana – A spiritual revival inspired by praise and worship music from different artistes across different cultures is about to hit Tamale this weekend. Dubbed “Tamale Festival of Praise”, it is a gathering of men of God, believers, church leaders and workers, choristers from selected Christian denominations and groups …

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 …

Wa, Ghana – Heavy rainfall in the Upper West region on Friday, 31 August 2018 has displaced hundreds of residents and many properties destroyed in the Wa municipality.The four-hour torrential rain flooded major parts of Wa and its surroundings. Meanwhile, the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO)officials were on the secene …

Tamale, Ghana – Executive Director of mental health charity organization Gub-Katimali Society (GKS), Sheikh Yakubu Abdul Kareem, has implored the Ministry of Health to without any further delay, post a psychiatrist to the Tamale Teaching Hospital. With a population of about 5 million, there is not a single psychiatrist in …

Tamale, Ghana – The Chief Executive Officer of the Northern Development Authority (NDA), Dr. Abdul Majeed Haroun, has disclosed that the Northern Ecological Zone, will soon get its first-ever development bank.According to him, the African Development Bank (AfDB) has already approved some US$50,000 dollars for the conceptualisation process to begin.The …

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 …

Sagnarigu, Ghana – Northern Regional Chairman of the Conference of Heads and Proprietors of Private Second-cycle Schools (CHOPSS), Rahman Sulemana, has implored the government to reconsider its decision not to partner with private Senior High Schools (SHSs) in the implementation of its Free SHS programme. According to Mr. Sulemana, the FSHS programme though …