28.2 C
Accra
Friday, November 15, 2024

Human Rights News

Controversy breaks out at Bolgatanga Technical University again

You would recall that the Bolgatanga Technical University (BTU) was in the news in the middle of July, this year, regarding a coordinated move to appoint a senior accountant...

Mozambique Electoral Bloodshed: AEI offers recommendations as opposition leader claims assassination attempt

Ghana-based African Electoral Institute (AEI) is calling for calm in Mozambique and has offered...

AEI commends America for commitment to democratic principles ahead of Tuesday’s elections

The African Electoral Institute (AEI) has commended the United States of America (USA) for...

Good news for NDC as latest Global InfoAnalytics polls show NPP heading into opposition

The latest polls conducted by Global InfoAnalytics, a nonpartisan company that provides data-driven research...

House of Chiefs Conflict: Court awards cost against Tongraan, Sandem-Nab

A high court in Bolgatanga has struck out the name of the registrar of...

Human Rights Watch: Teacher, boarding students ‘tortured’ by police officers after riot

A teacher and some students of the St. Bernadette’s Technical Institute at Navrongo in the Upper East Region have told Media Without Borders they...

‘Worse than a Stable’: The awful state of a classroom in Bongo

The structure that serves as a classroom for the Basic Three pupils of Anafobisi D/A KG/Primary ‘A’, a public school in the Bongo District,...

The reason young trees survive only in Navrongo— Forestry Commission shares secret with the press

It has become an annual affair, since 2021, to celebrate the state-initiated Green Ghana Day with a tree-planting fair across the 16 regions of...

How Upper East Regional Minister denied his own statement on Class FM and was exposed— Watch video

On Monday, 12 June 2023, Class FM engaged the Upper East Regional Minister, Stephen Yakubu, in an interview during an evening newscast programme over...

Video: Watch how Upper East Regional Minister describes northerners as ‘greedy’ and ‘untruthful’ in his office

There have been some accusations levelled against the Upper East Regional Minister, Stephen Yakubu, by some small-scale miners in the Upper East Region. They accuse...

‘Christmas in June’ as hungry workers stage protests at Green Ghana Day over allowance nonpayment

When dignitaries gathered on Friday, 9 June 2023, to observe the Green Ghana Day at Paga, a northern town on Ghana’s border with Burkina...

‘Apologise in 7 days or put your government to trouble’— Group to UE/Reg. Minister

A pressure group— the Northern Forum for Peace and Development (NOFPED) — has lodged a strong protest against the Upper East Regional Minister, Stephen...

‘All Green Ghana trees planted in 2022 at Assembly perished’― Kassena-Nankana West DCE

No fewer than 20 young trees were planted on the office premises of the Kassena-Nankana West District Assembly in 2022 under the Green Ghana...

Green Ghana Project: Indiscriminate cattle grazing a threat to forests, farms in Navrongo― Paramount Chief

The Paramount Chief of Navrongo, Pε Asagepaare II, has pointed at indiscriminate cattle grazing by herdsmen as a threat to forestation activities and farms...

High Court registrar sacked after preparing 30 fraudulent Court Orders

Ghana’s Office of the Judicial Secretary has handed a registrar at a High Court in Tema, Sebastian Agbo, a dismissal letter for reportedly preparing...

Video: Passengers suffer disappointing ‘reshuffle’ on O.A bus as seats and numbers fail to match

When some individuals who wished to travel to Bolgatanga went to the O.A Travel and Tours terminus in Sunyani to make advance ticket booking...

Video: Hit-and-run driver caught after knocking down social worker with gov’t vehicle

A social worker was abandoned on a road in the Upper East Region after he was knocked down by a drunk man seated behind...

Chiana Pio makes history as America renovates House of Chiefs’ offices 52 years after construction

About 60 years ago, the Government of Ghana established a House of Chiefs in every region to deal with matters relating to, or affecting,...

Police arrest small-scale miner over ‘fraudulent’ bank account

The Ghana Police Service have arrested a small-scale miner, Robert Boazor Tampoare, in Bolgatanga, the Upper East Region’s capital, in connection with a fraudulent...

- A word from our sponsors -

spot_img

Follow us

HomeHuman Rights News