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Auction Controversy: Attorney General, Upper East Regional Coordinating Council dragged to court

A high court in Bolgatanga has summoned the Attorney General and the Upper East Regional Coordinating Council (UERCC) in connection with the sale of some 14 vehicles and heavy...

22 mineworkers hospitalised in Bolga after company bus somersaults twice in Talensi

Cardinal Namdini Mining Ltd, a subsidiary of Shandong Gold Mining Company Ltd operating in...

Matron caught with boarding students’ food outside campus in Bongo

Saturday mornings at Gowrie, a generally quiet community in the Bongo district of the...

Judgment debt looms as another mess surfaces under Akufo-Addo government over auction sales of state vehicles

On Wednesday, 27 March 2024, the Upper East Regional Coordinating Council (UERCC) wrote a...

Gowrie SHTS Riot: Committee’s report exposes headmistress

It took about two weeks for a committee of inquiry to complete its investigation...

Atlantic Lithium Lease: Ghanaian professor vows to trigger termination of controversial deal amid secret payment allegations

A professor at Ghana’s University of Education Winneba, Ephraim Nsoh Avea, has said he will see to it that the lithium mining lease granted...

SONA 2024: Bawku is a magnet for next-door extremists— President Akufo-Addo

Ghana’s President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has depicted Bawku, a border town currently entangled in a bloody conflict in the Upper East region, as...

Lawyer dragged before GLC for allegedly breaking rule of profession

A lawyer engaged by a Chinese-owned mining company operating in Ghana has been dragged before the General Legal Council (GLC) for reportedly going against...

Ghana’s NCA shuts down 4 radio stations for reportedly fuelling conflict fire

The National Communications Authority (NCA) says it has shut down four radio stations in Ghana on grounds of national security. The NCA in a press...

Small-scale miners’ chairman suspended to avert looming collapse

The Ghana National Association of Small-Scale Miners (GNASSM) has suspended the Chairman of the Bolgatanga Mining District, Robert Boazor Tampoare, and asked its National...

Tax on Electricity: Akufo-Addo’s 2016 campaign promise blows up in NPP’s face in 2024

One of the major promises Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo made in 2016 to Ghanaian voters as he ran for president was to reduce what...

Chiefs, residents descend on government at forest rally for playing musical chairs with Bolgatanga Airport Project

A gathering of people is not usually seen inside the Anateem forest. But the habitually calm jungle, found in the west of Bolgatanga, the...

Shaanxi mineworker drops dead: The second sudden death recorded in five weeks

Prices of petrol and diesel were expected to drop slightly in Ghana in December 2023 as a result of a fall in prices of...

The Ghanaian “Evil” Children on Death Row: Tales of Tragedies, Trials and Triumphs

During the afternoon hours of Tuesday, 11 January 2011, a car arrived at an unusual speed in front of a waiting crowd on the...

CKT-UTAS Appointment Scandal: State attorney uses foul language on media

The office of the Attorney-General and Ministry of Justice in the Upper East Region is heading to the Appeals Court in Kumasi, seeking an...

CKT-UTAS Judgment Appeal: Governing Council exposes ‘false claim’ made by sacked vice-chancellor

Prof. Eric Magnus Wilmot did not go back to his office after Justice Charles Adjei Wilson delivered his damning verdict on Monday, 27 November...

The Humans who have no Human Rights: Inside the horror-filled world of mentally ill persons excluded from cure

There is an unmarked grave at Zorkor, a rural community that lies to the west of Bongo, a district in Ghana’s Upper East Region. Inside...

History imminent as NMTC-Zuarungu begins processes to award degrees in nursing, midwifery

Authorities of the Nursing and Midwifery Training College (NMTC) at Zuarungu, a community in the Bolgatanga East District of Ghana’s Upper East Region, say...

Some nursing, midwifery exam candidates using ‘menstrual pads’ to cheat— Dr. Yakong

As a rule, students at health training institutions in Ghana are body-searched by invigilators for unauthorised materials before they enter examination venues. But some candidates...

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