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As Management of the Kassena-Nankana West District in the Upper East Region brings the 2025 working year to a close, the District Chief Executive [DCE], Hon. Stephen Aeke Akurugo has shared with the residents of the district and the general public, some important projects the Assembly has resolved to execute at the commencement of the 2026 working year. In his presentation of the Executive Committee’s [Execo] report at the Assembly’s last and third ordinary meeting for the year held on Friday, December 19, 2025, the DCE disclosed that befitting toilets cum urinal facilities will be constructed at all the major markets in the district, a modern livestock market also earmarked for construction in the capital, Paga while water facilities will be provided at major markets in the district. Additionally, a number of market sheds shall be put up at the Chiana market and the district’s roads sector will also receive appropriate attention as access routes are to be constructed to aid smooth f...

Hon. Akurugo (in Smock "L") Presenting Ultimate Prize  Kassena-Nankana West District Chief Executive [DCE], Hon. Stephen Aeke Akurugo has highlighted the growing threats posed by bushfires which has become an annual unpleasant phenomenon in the district. He noted that each dry season some unscrupulous people often ignite bushfires that cause a lot harm to the environment stressing; “bushfires devastate farmlands, harm and kill livestock, stored produce and also degrade soil fertility, undermining the tireless efforts of our farmers”.  Hon. Akurugo made this observation in his keynote address the district’s celebration of Ghana’s 41 st National Farmers’ Day held in Paga on Friday, December 1, 2025. He thus called for the adoption of safe and responsible farming practices that safeguard the environment while vigilance must be kept to report to the authorities, persons who deliberately set fires for selfish interests such as hunting bush meat. The DCE made passionate appeal t...

MP [in reflector jacket]; DCE [in white smock]  The Kassena-Nankana West District Assembly has cut sod for the construction of projects across the health, education and water sectors in the district. The projects, all valued at 3,589,504.23 Ghana Cedis are for the benefit of the Boania community, the Paga Senior High School and the Mirigu community among others. Boania for instance, gets a modern 3-Unit classroom block with ancillary facilities including a staff common room, headteacher’s office, store, 4-seater toilet facility and a changing room for girls to assist in fixing themselves during their monthly flows. This project is costed at 1,392,245.14 Ghana Cedis and is scheduled to be completed within six calendar months. The District Chief Executive [DCE], Hon. Stephen Aeke Akurugo and the Member of Parliament for the Chiana-Paga Constituency, Hon. Nikyema Billa Alamzy, jointly performed the sod cutting ceremonies at three different project sites this Monday afternoon. They u...

Rev. Fr. Tabase Joseph Aseyire, Board Chairman The Government of Ghana and its agencies in the banking sector regulatory space have been called upon to take urgent steps to reduce the corporate tax rate and the sustainability levy of 25 percent and five (5) percent respectively as the two remain very high for Rural and Community Banks (RCBs) operating across the country.  Board Chairman of the NAARA RURAL BANK PLC, Rev. Father Tabase Joseph Aseyire made the call this Thursday in his report to the bank’s 34th Annual General Meeting (AGM) held in Bolgatanga in the Upper East Region. He emphasized the call which he already made back in November 2024 at a similar AGM of the bank in Paga; “we continue to call on government to reduce the corporate tax to at most, 15 percent for RCBs since majority of them are operating in the rural communities in the country”. Giving more insight into how the bank performed by the year ended 31st December, 2024, Rev. Tabase noted that though the peri...

Mrs. Mary Awelana Addah, Executive Dir.  - TI-Ghana In bolstering the efforts of fighting corruption in Ghana, Transparency International Ghana (TI-Ghana) has held a one-day training in Paga, for 50 women drawn from several women’s groups across the Kassena-Nankana West District in the Upper East Region. The anti-corruption training which was themed “Voices of Change; Mobilizing Marginalized Groups Including Women to Challenge Corruption in Their communities” is under the auspices of TI-Ghana’s Inclusive Services Delivery Africa (ISDA) Project with funding support from Global Affairs Canada through the instrumentality of its mother-organization, Transparency International. Speaking on the rationale for the training and why women must get involved in the anti-corruption fight, Executive Director for TI-Ghana, Mrs. Mary Awelana Addah stated that, “evidence continuous to show that corruption and discrimination affect women the most in their daily search for essential services”. She ...

Media practitioners and civil society organisations in the Upper East Region have been trained to enhance their understanding of corruption, its nature, causes and manifestations and its negative effects on society. The media is thus called upon to make available its various platforms and channels to facilitate the sharing of experiences and encounters with corruption and how people dealt with them. Transparency International Ghana (TI-Ghana) with funding from the European Union and the GIZ under the “Participation, Accountability and Integrity for a Resilient Democracy”, PAIReD Project, organised the one-day training in Bolgatanga, the regional capital. The training was also attended by gender desk officers from some selected assemblies in the region, PWD Executives, officers from the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) as well as officials from the National Commission for Civic Education. In her opening remarks touching on the training title dubbed “CSOs...