Rising activities of armed robbers in Sawla-Tuna-Kalba District of Northern Region are threatening lives and property, raising fear among members of several communities in the area, according to Birifor Youth Association (BYA). “The armed robbers are having a field day in the District,” leaders of BYA told journalists in Wa in the Upper West Region over the weekend. The youth ...

The Ghana Cocoa Board {COCOBOD} in conjunction with the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources has launched a programme to encourage cocoa farmers to adopt climate smart cocoa cultivation to enable them to stay in business in the face of climate change and its attendant negative effects on the cultivation of crops. Under the programme, cocoa farmers are being provided ...

The Forestry Commission has reiterated its earlier stance that the entity and its Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie are not involved in Illegal mining as purported by a section of the public. The Commission has also indicated its readiness to submit itself to any probe should the need arise. “We wish to inform all relevant stakeholders that the ...

The people of the Upper West Region are appealing to the Ghana Medical Association to encourage its members to accept postings to the region where doctor-patient ratio has been awful. According to the Regional Minister Alhaji Alhassan Sulemana, the few doctors who accept postings to the region do not stay for long; a situation he observed was affecting healthcare delivery. ...

The Bank of Ghana has collapsed five banks into a Consolidated Bank of Ghana Limited to support government’s twin-objective of financial stability and strengthening indigenous banks. By this the BoG has revoked the licences of BEIGE, Sovereign, Construction Bank, UniBank and Royal Bank. Dr Ernest Addison, the Governor of BoG who announced this on Wednesday in Accra explained that the ...

Madam Otiko Afisa Djaba, the Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection has called on Ghanaians to help end human trafficking in the country, which she described as a crime to humanity. She said: “We cannot continue to pretend not to know the dangers of human trafficking and so there was the need for all of us in the communities ...

Epilepsy cases in Upper West Region have more than doubled in the last two years and the prevailing trend indicates that the figure is likely to further rise in 2018. Reports of recorded cases of epilepsy in the Wa Municipality were 27 in 2016 but jumped to 60 in 2017, a situation the Municipal Health Directorate says could grow higher ...

Are we stupid? Hell no! That’s too harsh! Then, who are we? I had insomnia last night after I came across one of the famous quotes of the renowned scientist — Albert Einstein. It says, ‘‘stupidity is doing same thing and expecting different results.’’ I cherish fame, and I adore Ghana — a country which does same thing over and ...

The Western Regional Manager of the National Population Council (NPC) Frank Ofosu-Asante has expressed concern about the increasing rate of child marriage in the region.  Statistics indicate that 37 per cent of girls in the Western Region would be married before they turn 18. He bemoaned the fact that most teenage girls, particularly those in the remote areas in the ...

The Government of Ghana through the Ministry of Education has signed an MOU with Real Studios Limited, an Information Technology company, to implement the Digital Education System (DES). The initiative combines hardware, software and digital media to transform the educational sector from analogue to a digital one which is more accessible, using electronic reading devices backed by internet systems to ...