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The Bolgatanga Municipal Chief Executive, Hon. Roland Atanga Ayoo has stated that, issues relating to HIV/AIDS constitute a serious matter to the Bolgatanga Municipal Assembly and that, the Assembly will continue to collaborate with the Ghana Health Service and contribute in both financial and other forms, to help reduce the rate of infections in the Municipality. Hon. Roland A. Ayoo, Bolga MCE The MCE commended residents who voluntarily come forward and present themselves to the health workers to undergo testing to ascertain their HIV status. He remarked, “Those who will know their status will also know the direction to go and if you test positive, that is not the end of life, there are drugs you will take to sustain your life”. He was addressing members of the public this Thursday (August 20, 2026) at the Bolgatanga main lorry station, where he launched some carefully-produced HIV/AIDS public awareness radio jingles as part of strategies adopted by the Assembly and the Municipal He...

 ISD DIR. (Middle), With Awardees Some two (2) members of staff from the Information Services Department (ISD), made the list of some 100 distinguished hardworking civil and public servants who received awards last Friday, August 14, 2026 at the Civil Service Awards night in Accra for the 2025 service year. The annual awards scheme is purposed to reward officers who exhibit sterling performance and commitment at the duties assigned them during a particular service year which not only serves as encouragement to the awardees but also, to tickle and challenge other officers to strive for excellence in the overall discharge of the mandate of the various civil service institutions in Ghana.  The annual awards scheme, is under the auspices of the Office of Head of the Civil Service (OHCS) with the 2025 awards ceremony themed; “The Resetting Agenda For Sustainable Development In Ghana: The Civil Service’s Responsibilities”. During a brief interaction with the awardees at her offi...

The Bolgatanga Municipal Chief Executive [MCE], Hon. Roland Atanga Ayoo has called on staff of the Assembly to build and maintain a positive attitude to work as he noted that any wrong or awful attitude of even a single staff could present a bad image for the Assembly in the eyes of the public. He further charged the staff and various departments not to abdicate their core functions to the Assembly’s committees but rather, remain up-to-the-beat and take full discharge of their duties. He emphasized; “the Committees are only complementing your work for which you get paid at the end of every month”. Hon. Ayoo was addressing a Management Meeting this Tuesday morning (June 23, 2026) at the Assembly’s conference hall. The meeting was a convergence of all Heads of Department as well as, other Unit Heads of decentralized state institutions. He said for instance the fact that sanitation and revenue task forces or committees exist within the Assembly’s framework, should not be the main yardst...

The Upper East Regional Minister, Hon. Donatus Akamugri Atanga says the Government of Ghana  has procured and distributed some 40 multipurpose information vans to several regional and district offices of the Information Services Department (ISD) across the country; a move he explained is to strengthen public education and effective information dissemination throughout Ghana Hon. Donatus Akamugri (middle) .  “This intervention to the ISD is not an isolated effort but forms part of Government’s broad reform efforts hinged on the Resetting Ghana Agenda and aimed at repositioning the ISD from a traditional civil service organization into a modern , dynamic and technology-driven institution; capable of effectively communicating Government’s policies and programmes to the people”.  Hon. Akamugri was speaking this Thursday morning at the forefront of the Upper East Regional Coordinating Council to present three of the information vans to the ISD in the region. He said as par...

Participants At The Engagement The Kassena-Nankana West District Office of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), has engaged stakeholders at a social auditing committee meeting in Paga this Tuesday morning.   This is in tandem with the NCCE’s civic engagements on the Rule of Law and the fight against corruption under the Participation, Accountability and Integrity for a Resilient Democracy (PAIReD) Programme. It is geared at improving local governance, accountability and transparency. PAIReD is primarily funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). It is co-financed by the European Union and the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO). GIZ Ghana, is implementing the programme in consonance with Ghana’s Ministry of Finance, while the NCCE is one of the leading local implementing agencies. Gangu Paul Kwame, Ag. Dir., NCCE Acting District Director for the NCCE, Mr. Ganvu Paul Kwame said the engagement was to empo...

The District Chief Executive [DCE] for the Kassena-Nankana West District in the Upper East Region, Hon. Stephen Aeke Akurugo has begun a seven-day stakeholders’ tour to all the seven paramount traditional areas in the district to hold discussions with the chiefs, their divisional chiefs and elders as well as interact with youth groups on the best possible collaborations that could soar the Internally Generated Fund [IGF] of the Assembly.   Hon. Stephen Akurugo At Mirigu Naba's Palace   Hon. Akurugo began the tour on Tuesday, February 17 and his first point of call was at the palace of the Mirigu Paramount Chief, Naba Anthony Abisa Anonsona Atasige III. He appealed to the chief and traditional council to show keen interest in the revenues emanating from the Mirigu market by assisting to educate his people on the need to honour their taxes and levies to the Assembly. He explained that, central government allocations alone could not meet the development needs of the communities, ...