In support of its several initiatives being made to bridge the digital device between the served and underserved communities in Ghana, MTN Foundation-Ghana, on Wednesday, cut the sod for the construction of a 25-seater Information Communication Technology (ICT) Centre at St. Charles Primary School at Bukere in the Bolgatanga Municipality
Police officers in Bawku may have to wait a little longer before they could use motorbikes like their counterparts in other security services. Although a memo from the National Security has given the green light to all security personnel in Bawku to use motorbikes when in uniform, police personnel are still not enjoying the protocol
The Rector of the Bolgatanga Polytechnic, Dr. Mba Atinga, says recent concerns about the disproportionate number of students doing business-related programmes in the tertiary institutions, especially, polytechnics, should not be blamed on the institutions, but the larger society. He says policy makers and employers are also the problem
The Founder of the Ghana Rural Opportunity for Women (GROW), a local non-governmental organisation (NGO), Ms. Vida Nyagre Yakong, has presented assorted educational books, clothing and medical equipment to educational and health institutions in the Upper East Region.
Though the year 2011 is yet to end, health institutions in the Upper East Region have recorded 21 maternal deaths between January and October. Out of the number, 17 were recorded in the hospitals, one at a health centre, one at home, and two in other locations
Most tomato farmers in the Upper East Region have switched into pepper production and other major vegetables such as onions, garden eggs, and hibiscus, to avert the annual rituals that cause financial loss to them.
The saying that disability does not mean inability, last Saturday manifested clearly at the Bolgatanga Sports Stadium, when students of the Gbeogo School for the Deaf Senior High School took part in a well-organised football tournament.
While some residents in Accra and Tema are still counting their losses, including the death of nine persons, the lip-cracking and skin-burning harmattan has set in, making life uncomfortable for people in the Upper East Region.
The Upper East Region, on Thursday October 27, joined the rest of the country in the on-going National Immunisation Day against Polio, with over 240,000 children below five targeted to be vaccinated at the end of the exercise on Saturday, October 29, 2011. About 25,000 volunteers and 300 supervisors are carrying out the exercise.
Members of the Upper East Regional Secretariat of the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) have joined their counterparts in the Greater Accra and Upper West regions in their indefinite strike despite assurances by the government they would be paid their salary arrears