Two Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) are currently running the Tamale Teaching Hospital, in a raging confusion that has rocked the premier and referral hospital in the three regions of the North. Dr Prosper Akanbon who was appointed by the erstwhile National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration in September 2014, has up to 2018 September to end … Read more
One person has been injured and properties vandalized in Tamale in an attack by a vigilante group affiliated to the New Patriotic Party, Kandahar Boys, on organizers of a news conference Monday morning. The press conference was being held to mobilize residents demonstrate against one Dr. Daniel Akobila who allegedly stormed the Tamale Teaching Hospital … Read more
A Coalition of Polling Station Executives of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Northern Region has petitioned President Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo-Addo over their unemployed situation. They said, the Constituency Executives of Tamale Central, North, South and Sagnarigu have all been sidelined in the Akufo-Addo’s appointments, accusing the party hierarchy of shortchanging some … Read more
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) coalition of polling station executives in the Northern Region has petitioned President Nana Akufo-Addo over their unemployment situation. According to the coalition, the Tamale Central, Tamale North, Tamale South and Sagnarigu constituency executives have so far been sidelined in the Akufo-Addo government. The coalition posited that some constituency executives who … Read more
The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) coalition of polling station executives in the northern region has petitioned President Nana Akufo-Addo over unemployment. According to the coalition, the Tamale Central, Tamale North, Tamale South and Sagnarigu constituency executives have so far been sidelined in the Akufo-Addo government. The coalition posited that some constituency executives who applied for … Read more
After she lost the courage to trade in vegetables – her source of livelihood at the Aboabo market in Tamale – due to her fistula condition after her fifth birth, 40 years old Mma Fulera is now back to her business with higher aspirations. Today, Mma fulera has returned to her spot in the market where … Read more
A former Minister in the immediate past National Democratic Congress (NDC) government has criticised Akufo-Addo’s government of bypassing due process and causing public trial of alleged corrupt public officials. Inusah Fuseini, a former Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, and current MP for Tamale Central believes there is a sinister attempt by the current government … Read more
The Entertainment Chief of Tamale, Northern regional capital and self-imposed leader of a task force, Mohammed Hafiz Demanaa who was beaten by angry traders evicted from the streets in a decongestion exercise on Friday led a group of rowdy youth to cause distraction at the regional police headquarters after a gate-crash meeting with the police … Read more
The new Hajj Board Chairman, Shiehk I. C. Quaye who made this known said negotiations were still underway with government to consider airlifting them to perform the pilgrimage. Last year, the Pilgrims Affairs Office of Ghana (PAOG) the body in charge of Hajj organisation, was accused by some would-be pilgrims of bias. They said the … Read more
Embattled entertainment chief of Tamale, Mohammed Hafiz Diema Naa who was beaten to pulp by subjects of another seems to have courted more trouble for himself than he thought. Some chiefs in the area are cautioning him to tread cautiously because his beatings by aggrieved supporters of another chief are just a tip of the … Read more
Chairman of the Hajj Board Sheikh I. C Quaye has revealed that six flights will take off from the Tamale International Airport at the 2017 Hajj Pilgrimage while a total of 6,200 pilgrims will be allowed to perform the 2017 Hajj. Four flights flew directly from the airport to Jeddah in Saudi Arabia to perform … Read more
It is the joy of every family to be blessed with a child. But sometimes there are mix feelings, to other families, when the baby arrives with deformity. In some cultures such children are sent to the shrine and sacrificed. In the case of Miss Hamdiya Iddrisu, her parents defied all odds when they found … Read more
The Northern Regional Branch of the New Patriotic Party(NPP) has urged for calm among Tamale-based Serial Callers and communicators in the region as the party assures that steps are being taken to appoint some of them[angry communicators] into government positions. The group earlier gave a one week ultimatum that it’s members would stop defending the … Read more
A subchief in Tamale in the Northern region responsible for Entertainment, Mohammed Hafiz Demanaa was severely assaulted after he led a team of armed soldiers to evict petty traders and hawkers who were forcibly driven away from streets last week in a ruthless decongestion exercise. The subchief has been leading the security forces to hack … Read more
Northern Region New Patriotic Party (NPP) communicators and serial callers have given President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo one week ultimatum to appoint some of their members into strategic positions. A group calling itself NPP SMS group is unhappy about the neglect of some senior communicators including the Regional Communications Director, Mohammed Abdul Kudus, A. … Read more
The Vice President, Dr. Alhaji Mahamudu Bawumia has climaxed his four days Northern Regional “Thank you” meeting with family relations and New Patriotic Party members in Walewale, his hometown. With the exclusion of Nanung traditional area, the Vice President visited the Dagbon, Mamprugu and Yagbon paramountcies. He paid courtesy calls on the Regent of Dagbon, … Read more
Vice President Alhaji Dr Mahamadu Bawumia has assured the Muslim Community that the Government would organise an incident-free hajj this year by improving on what the previous government had done. He said the Hajj operations in the country had not been without incident but the situation had improved in recent years. Vice President Bawumia gave … Read more
The Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has reiterated the New Patriotic Party campaign promise to construct a rail network from Takoradi to Paga in the Upper East region. He said the rail system is one of the legacies the President, Nana Akufo-Addo government would like to leave for posterity. The Vice President said this at … Read more
Two days after the new Greater Accra Regional Hospital at Ridge, was officially opened to the public, the facility is yet to be operational. According to a Citi FM report, a visit to the facility Friday morning showed no activity as compared to Wednesday when nurses, doctors were seen busily attending to patients who had … Read more
Footwear of mourners has continued to flood the doorsteps of the family of a senior high school student attacked and killed in the recent chieftaincy-related clash in Bolgatanga, the Upper East regional capital. Sumaila Mohammed, aged 20 years, died Tuesday of gunshot wounds at the Tamale Teaching Hospital in the Northern Region, 3 days after … Read more