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Some farmers in the Upper East Region are gradually adopting a new climate smart technology in cultivating the frafra potatoes to improve household food security and incomes. The frafra potato, an improved variety of the regular potato, was introduced to the farmers by the Savannah Agriculture Research Institute (SARI) of…

Bolgatanga, Bawku Technical Institutes Reopen - Students Surcharged To Pay GH¢280,000 For Damage To Properties

Bolgatanga, Bawku Technical Institutes Reopen - Students Surcharged To Pay GH¢280,000 For Damage To Properties

The Water Resources Commission (WRC) says farmers who still cultivate within the buffer zones of water sources posed a major challenge to ensuring safety of communities along the White Volta. The continuous farming activities within the buffer zones adversely affect the current trend of flooding, especially when the Bagre Dam…

A month after the closure of the Bolgatanga and Bawku technical institutes (BOTECH and BAWTECH) by the Upper East Regional Security Council (REGSEC) over riots by students, both schools were officially reopened on Friday, September 9, 2022.

Mr Eric Nana Agymang-Prempeh, the Director-General (DG) of the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO) says the Organization is ready to deal with the annual flooding associated with the spillage of the Bagre Dam. He saaid the annual spillage of the Dam in Burkina Faso was communicated to Ghana, saying “They…

Residents of communities at the downstream area of the White and Black Volta rivers have been advised to relocate to higher grounds for safety as authorities in Burkina Faso prepare to spill excess water from the Bagre and Kompienga dams.

A new headquarters for the Bolgatanga Divisional Police Command has been inaugurated with a call on people to support the police administration in addressing some of its basic infrastructural needs.

The Homeland Study Group Foundation (HSGF), one of the groups demanding independence for the western part of the former Togoland, denounces the exploitation of mineral resources on their territory, an act that activists deem illegal.

About 1,500 hectares of degraded landscape and forest reserves have been restored in the Talensi District of the Upper East Region through the Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) approach. Naba Kougbira Maaltinga, the Chief of the Yameriga community, who announced this explained that the intervention, introduced to the community in…