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The Bongo District Assembly in collaboration with its development partners, UNICEF on Wednesday February 27, 2019, handed over newly constructed and furnished toilet and urinal facilities to some basic schools across the district. The beneficiary schools included the Beo-Tankoo Junior High School [JHS], Beo-Tankoo Primary, the Ghanadaa R/C JHS and Primary schools and Ayopia Primary school. Bongo DCE, Hon. Peter A. Ayamga [in smock] presenting keys to the toilet at Beo-Tankoo JHS Bongo District Chief Executive [DCE], Hon. Peter Ayinbisa Ayamga who led a team of his technical staff at the Assembly and representatives from the development partners, first handed over an eight-seater pour-flush toilet to the Beo-Tankoo Junior High School. The facility is to be used by both male and female pupils of the school. In his brief remarks at the Beo-Tankoo JHS, Hon. Ayinbisa cautioned the students against bad hygiene practices stressing that “after you visit the toilet and after att...

The District Chief Executive [DCE] for Bongo in the Upper East Region of Ghana, Mr. Peter Ayinbisa Ayamga on Friday, presented 160 pieces of school uniform to pupils of the Goo-Atandaa Primary and Kindergarten schools. This comes just one week after he had made a promise to the authorities and pupils of the school when he visited the school on a different mission. Bongo DCE, Hon. Ayinbisa Presents a uniform to one of the children It will be recalled that Starr FM, an Accra-based radio station on 11 th February, 2019, published a news item on its website to the effect that, over 200 school children of the school in question, were without classrooms and were said to be exposed to bees in their school environment, surrounded by trees. Immediately the DCE learnt of this, he moved to the school the following day for an engagement with the authorities so as to have a personal sight of the situation. It is worthy to note here that, based on the everyday packed schedules of the DCE,...

The Upper East Regional Information Officer [R.I.O] Mr. Bennin Issifu Douri, has stated that the phenomenon of frequent allegations of corruption in Ghana, be it actual or perceptive is not good for the country’s image building and international reputation. He made the statement in a presentation at a two-day training workshop for the media on Service Delivery Standards and Social Accountability held at the A.A Country Side Hotel in Paga, capital of the Kassena-Nankana West District, Upper East Region. The Upper East Chapter of the Ghana Journalists Association [GJA] in partnership with some civil society groups organised the training funded by Starr Ghana.   Mr. Bennin Issifu Douri, Regional Information Officer - Upper East making a presentation Mr. Bennin noted that no institution in Ghana be it state or private, is immune to corruption as there is always the tendency for people to be corrupt unless proper and effective checks are instituted and allowed to function. H...

BY PETER ATOGEWE WEDAM,  DISTRICT INFORMATION OFFICER - BONGO    16 th  February, 2019 The phase three of the redevelopment works at the Upper East Regional hospital, located in the capital, Bolgatanga, will commence in the coming weeks as the Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo led-government has secured funding for the progression of the stalled project. Upper East Regional Minister, Hon. Paulina Patience Abayage who disclosed this at a Press Soiree organised by the Regional Coordinating Council and held at the Residency on Saturday, stated categorically that, she had conferred with the Health Minister days ago and was told the government had gotten as much as 20 Million US Dollars from the Saudi Fund for injection into the project. Upper East Regional Minister, Hon. Paulina Patience Abayage She acknowledged that governance was a continuum and recalled that this particular project began under the Prez. John Kufuor regime and later handed over to the John Mah...

A few entrepreneurs, including indigenes from the Kassena-Nankana West District in the Upper East Region of Ghana, have endeavoured to invest in the district but that one citizen, who has made a huge and tremendous investment statement in the district’s capital Paga, is the Chief Executive Officer [CEO] of the A.A Country Side Hotel , Mr. Allan L. Ayiatey. A.A Country Side Hotel is a modern magnificent 14-Room hotel building, strategically sited on your entry into Paga from Navrongo just about a minute-and-half [2-Mins.] drive from the Paga Police Station making a branch on your right. Meanwhile, guests entering Ghana from Burkina Faso through the Paga border, can easily locate the hotel after driving past the Paga Pio’s beautiful palace in about three-to-four [4-Mins.] and taking left turn just on the directional sign post. Rooms at A Glance The Guest Rooms At a Glance In a refreshing chat with the hotel’s CEO Mr. Allan on Wednesday February 13, 2019 at the hotel’s ve...

The Ministry for Special Development Initiatives has disbursed the second tranche of funds totaling 500,000.00 Ghana Cedis, to the Bongo District Assembly in the Upper East Region. This release is for the execution of relevant projects in the education and water sectors. Bongo District Chief Executive [DCE] Hon. Peter Ayinbisa Ayamga, subsequently on Friday February 8, 2019, handed over sites to contractors for the construction of two separate school blocks in the Gorigo and Zorkor-Kanga communities. He said a three-unit classroom block with ancillary facilities such as staff common room, store and head-teacher’s office would be constructed in both communities. He added that, the project in the former would serve as a Junior High School [JHS] whilst the other in the latter, was to replace an existing primary school which had been operating under a pavilion as its main infrastructure for several years now. Bongo DCE Hon. Peter Ayinbisa Ayamga speaking at the site hand over Acc...