A Non-Governmental Organization, A Rocha Ghana, has launched a four-year project in Damongo to safeguard the Volta Basin within the Mole ecological zone in the Northern Region. The project codenamed, “Shared Resources Joint Solution” launch coincided with the 2017 World Water Day celebration. With the intention to upscale the project, it is to enhance natural … Read more
Fire has gutted the main dormitory of St. Charles Senior High School in Tamale. The cause of the inferno which destroyed properties worth thousands of cedis is yet to be established. An eyewitness narrated that the students were studying when the disaster occurred at 9pm. St. Charles which was established as a minor seminary and … Read more
The Yendi Peace Centre, a non-governmental organization in Yendi in the Northern Region, has met with victims of the recent chieftaincy crisis in Bimbilla in the Nanumba district of the Northern Region. The Centre assured them of playing its role to ensure a lasting peaceful solution to the crisis in the area. Speaking to , … Read more
Fire has gutted the main dormitory of St. Charles Senior High School in Tamale. The cause of the inferno which destroyed properties worth thousands of cedis is yet to be established. An eyewitness narrated that the students were at preps when the disaster occurred at 9pm. St. Charles which was established as a minor seminary … Read more
Four basic schools in the Walewale Township of the West Mamprusi district in the Northern Region have been temporarily shut down effective Monday March 20, 2017. A feud between teachers of the affected schools and encroachers on the schools land necessitated the temporary shutdown. The affected schools are Walewale District Assembly Junior High School ‘B‘, … Read more
Four basic schools in the Walewale Township of the West Mamprusi district in the Northern Region have been temporarily shut down effective Monday March 20, 2017. A feud between teachers of the affected schools and encroachers on the schools land necessitated the temporary shutdown. The affected schools are Walewale District Assembly Junior High School ‘B‘, … Read more
A native of Bimbilla and a worker at Ecobank in Accra, Alhassan Haruna, has donated some hospital equipment to the Bimbilla District Hospital in the Nanumba North district of the Northern Region. Issahaku Ben Hussein, who presented the equipment on behalf of Alaskan Haruna, appealed to youth and other stakeholders in the area to emulate the … Read more
Four deputy Regional Ministers designate have pledged their unflinching support to co-operate and desist from undermining their regional ministers in the discharge of their functions. The first batch of deputy regional ministers designate who appeared before the Appointment’s Committee of Parliament on Tuesday, were categorical in their resolve to support their respective regional ministers to … Read more
The Ghana Highway Authority (GHA), says the date for re-opening the Buipe Bridge has been changed from the 8th March to the 15th March. The Bridge will continue to remain closed per the current daily schedule, from 2pm to 6pm. In a statement, the GHA said only vehicles weighing up to 20 tons will be … Read more
Two houses have been set ablaze in a renewed chieftaincy clash in Bimbilla in the Nanumba North District of the Northern Region. The situation has created fear and panic among residents living in the area. On Wednesday at about 2pm, one Abdulai Sang was arrested by the police in connection with the murder of some … Read more
The Police in Bimbilla have arrested one of those who allegedly shot and killed 10 people in last month’s chieftaincy disturbances that rocked the Nanumba North District capital. Abdulai Sang, a native of Bimbilla in the Northern Region, was arrested at about 04:00pm at the office of the New Patriotic Party in the town after … Read more
The Interior Minister, Ambrose Dery, has entreated feuding factions in the intra-ethnic chieftaincy clashes in Bimbilla that claimed 13 lives and rendered many homeless to immediately embrace peace or risk being engulfed in poverty. He said the government will be forced to spend the monies earmarked for development into maintaining law and order in the … Read more
The team traveling on the Citi FM Heritage Caravan yesterday took a daring tour of the Mole National Park, as part of one of the activities for day 4 of the caravan. The Mole National Park which is Ghana’s largest wildlife refuge was established in 1958 and covers close to five thousand kilometers square. The … Read more
The Overlord of Gonjaland Yagbon-Wura Tuntumba Bor-Esa II has called for immediate measures to curb the consistent water shortage faced by residents in West Gonja in the Northern Region. Conveying the message of his Royal Majesty Yagbon-Wura Tuntumba Bor-Esa II to the Northern Regional Minister Saeed Salifu, the linguist at the Yagbon Palace, Alhaji Iddrisu … Read more
The Northern Regional Security Council has given the go ahead for the celebration of Ghana’s 60th Independence Day anniversary parade at Bimbila in the Nanumba-North District despite claims of security threat. The Nanumba-North District Security Council (DISEC) had sought permission to cancel the today’s parade in the district capital due to alleged threats from two … Read more
The Nanumba-North District Security Committee (DISEC) in the Northern Region is seeking permission to cancel the celebration of Ghana’s 60th Independence Anniversary in district capital, Bimbila. This last minute decision comes on the back of alleged threats from two feuding factions – Dasana and Nakpa – who are caught up in a protracted chieftaincy dispute … Read more
The Yendi Peace Centre, a non-governmental organization in Yendi in the Northern Region, has met with Religious leaders in Bimbilla in the Nanumba north district, to discuss a restoration of peace in the area. Barely three weeks ago, a long-standing chieftaincy dispute was rekindled in the Bimbilla Township claiming 10 lives mostly women and children. … Read more
Government has initiated re-conciliatory procedures in an attempt to resolve the chieftaincy stalemate in Dagbon and Nanung traditional areas. The National Security Minister, Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs Ministers, on Wednesday March 1, 2017, jointly paid a working visit to the Yendi Municipality. They met with leaders of the two chieftaincy divides in the Dagbon State. … Read more
A 25-year-old tipper truck driver, Iddrisu Yakubu has been stabbed to death at Nayilifong in the Gushegu Township of the Northern Region, Friday February 24, 2017. The suspect, Ziblila Ibrahim alias Bulubulu is in the grips of the Gushegu district police command. The deceased’s uncle, in a Citi News interview, narrated that the duo had … Read more
The Family of the late Overlord of Bimbilla, Naa Abdulai Andani Dasaana has served notice they will resist any attempt to bury the late Nakpana Salifu in Bimbilla as Chief of the town. At a news conference in the Northern Regional capital, Tamale today, the family pointed out that the late Chief died as Chief … Read more