The government of the Peoples Republic of China through the Chinese Embassy in Ghana has donated sixteen agro processing e equipment worth USD 217 400 to the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority SADA. The machines include thirteen sets of maize milling machines, two sets of soya milling machines and one set of millet milling machine … Read more
Government has inaugurated a 30-member team to lead the implementation of the Infrastructure for Poverty Eradication Programme (IPEP) in Northern Ghana. The team has a representation of 10 people from the three regions of the north. It is mandated to conduct community needs assessment in all constituencies in the three regions of the north. It … Read more
Government says it has finalised plans to split the Northern Savannah Ecological Zone into two but an architect of the development of the zone has expressed fears the move would retard the development plan of the area. The Savannah Ecological Zone currently covers 54.4 per cent of the land space of Ghana, comprising 63 districts … Read more
Government says it has finalised plans to split the Northern Savannah Ecological Zone into two but an architect of the development of the zone has expressed fears the move would retard the development plan of the area. The Savannah Ecological Zone currently covers 54.4 per cent of the land space of Ghana, comprising 63 districts … Read more
SADA-CSOs has appealed for groundnut farming to added to the ‘Planting for Food and Job’ campaign The Coalition of the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority Civil Society Organisations (SADA-CSOs), have appealed to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, to make groundnut farming part of his ‘Planting for Food and Jobs’ Initiatives. According to SADA-CSOs, groundnuts had been … Read more
Even before the New Patriotic Party led government changes the name and concept of the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA), to the Northern Development Authority with a new vision and activities, a Youth Group in the SADA Zone, has called for the dismissal of the Chief Executive Officer of SADA, Dr. Charles Abugri. According to … Read more
The Northern Youth for Peace and Development (NYUPED) has petitioned President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to “as a matter of urgency” relieve Dr. Charles Abugre of his post as the Chief Executive Officer of the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) for an alleged fraud-related complicity. The organisation, made up of youths in the three regions … Read more
The Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) has extended their condolences to families who were affected by the Kintampo Waterfalls tragedy which claimed 20 lives last Sunday in the Brong Ahafo region. The incident left about 30 others sustaining various degrees of injuries and are receiving treatment at Kintampo Municipal hospital. Read statement below: SADA SYMPATHIZES … Read more
Civil society organisations in the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) area have staged fresh protests over another long delay on the part of government in releasing feeding grants to public senior high schools in northern Ghana. The organisations say they have every right to doubt the possibility of a nationwide free senior high education promised … Read more
A group affiliated to the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) known as the Northern Youth for Nana Akufo Addo (NAYONA) has called for immediate forensic audit of the accounts of the Savannah Accelerated Development (SADA). The group in a petitioned signed by its Secretary, Shamuna Ghazi alleged that SADA is bedeviled with massive corruption. According … Read more
The Rasmal Invest Group of Morocco has signed an agreement with the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) to invest a minimum of $800 million into three projects in the savannah zone of the country. The three projects – the Tamale Teaching Hospital, the Buipe Inland Port and the Kintampo Tourism Cluster – form part of … Read more
The coalition of Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) zone Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) has reminded the government to reaffirm its commitment to the SADA master plan. Mr Bismark Adongo Ayorogo, the Executive Secretary, in a statement copied to the Ghana News Agency in Accra, said the civil society had developed a Comprehensive Development Blue-Print called … Read more
A coalition of civil society organisations, the Coalition of Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) Zone, has asked the government to investigate how a US$ 500 million loan facility secured to enhance the operations of SADA was expended. The facility was secured by the Kufuor administration in 2008 shortly before President Mills assumed office in 2009. … Read more
The attacks visited on the Tamale office of the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) in the Northern Regional capital by some miscreants purported to be members of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) was not sanctioned by any executive of the governing party, ASP Ebenezer Tetteh, Northern Regional Police Public Relations Officer, has said. On Monday, … Read more
A team police and military personnel have taken over the offices of the Savanna Accelerated Development Authority in the Northern regional capital where a group of people claiming to be New Patriotic Party members, have locked up the place. The about 50 people, who are from 15 NPP groups, are protesting against what they termed … Read more
Ti-Kelenkelen looked up only to receive the shock of his life. The bus stop had no ceiling. It had only a roof, which was made of plywood obvious to anyone looking up. Upon closer watch it also became obvious that the top of the plywood was overlain with about two-centimetres thick of rubber, but obviously … Read more
Until recently, the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) was an infamous spectacle of how bad management of public institutions can cost a nation and the citizenry. Established in 2010 as a vehicle for the transformation of the savannah zone, SADA was prided by the late Prof. Atta Mills’ administration as the boldest and, possibly, the … Read more
Member of Parliament for Kumbungu in the Northern Region, Ras Mubarak, has described as a waste of resources the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) plan to restructure the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA), into the Northern Development Authority (NDA). President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo had early on reaffirmed his commitment to restructure the Savannah Accelerated Development … Read more
Member of Parliament for Kumbungu in the Northern Region, Ras Mubarak, has described as a waste of resources the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) plan to restructure the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA), into the Northern Development Authority (NDA). President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo had early on reaffirmed his commitment to restructure the Savannah Accelerated Development … Read more
Three political parties have affirmed their support for the medium term development plan of the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA), the SADA Master Plan. The NDC, NPP and the CPP said the 25-year plan represented a credible blueprint, which, if properly implemented, could help to transform the fortunes of the Northern Savanna Ecological Zone (NSEZ) … Read more