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The Advocacy for Social Inclusion and Girls Education (ASIGE), a non-governmental organisation, has supported 20 girls in the Upper East Region to learn vocational skills, as part of an empowerment project. The gesture was also to help reduce unemployment among teenage mothers and out-of-school girls. With funding from the American…

The Navrongo-Bolgatanga Catholic Diocesan Development Organisation (NABOCADO) says indigenous innovation, through the use of local resources, is key to achieving sustainable agriculture practices and called on farmers to adopt same. Mr Dominic Avea Aniah, the Director, Livelihood Advocacy, NABOCADO, said the adverse impact of climate change, coupled with the excessive…

The Navrongo-Bolgatanga Catholic Diocesan Development Organisation (NABOCADO) says indigenous innovation, through the use of local resources, is key to achieving sustainable agriculture practices and called on farmers to adopt same. Mr Dominic Avea Aniah, the Director, Livelihood Advocacy, NABOCADO, said the adverse impact of climate change, coupled with the excessive…

Government, through the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) has handed over the Vea Irrigation Dam project in the Bongo District of the Upper East Region to a contractor for rehabilitation works to begin. The contract was awarded to Merssers Rann Luuk Limited and rehabilitation work is expected to be…

A Leather Tanning Factory has been constructed at Yorogo, a community in the Bolgatanga Municipality of the Upper East Region, under Government’s flagship programme; One District, One Factory (1D1F). The factory, which is yet to be equipped, is located about 500 metres from the new abattoir, which is expected to…

Sedem and Selorm Agboli are identical twins who have loved to do everything together from infancy to date; the bond seems not to be waning.

Sedem and Selorm Agboli are identical twins who have loved to do everything together from infancy to date; the bond seems not to be waning.

  The Federation of Disability Organization has called on government and other stakeholders to develop policies responsive to the plight of persons with disability to create an integrated society with equal opportunities for all vulnerable persons. Mr Clement Mba, President of the Federation of Disability Organization, Bongo Chapter, said persons with disability were neglected and and denied support to empower them to live dignified lives. Mr Mba made this during the Bongo District chapter’s...

705 Three COVID-19 related deaths have been recorded in two municipalities in the Upper East Region this year. Two of the deaths were captured in the regions COVID-19 Situational Report of January 14, 2021 while the other death occurred last Friday, January 15, 2021 and is expected to be captured in the next report this week. The report indicated that two of the deaths - a 63-year-old woman and a 55-year -old man -  were recorded in the Bolgatanga and Kassena Nankana Municipalities, while the ...

The Upper East Region has recorded a total of 89 active cases of COVID-19 from three Municipalities and three Districts, a situation report on the virus from the Ghana Health Service (HS) in the Region said.