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The District Chief Executive [DCE] for Bongo in the Upper East Region of Ghana, Hon. Peter Ayinbisa Ayamga has instructed the district directorate of the Ghana Education Service [GES], to prohibit any further establishment of community Senior High Schools in the district.   Bongo DCE, Hon. Ayinbisa [In Ash Outfit &  Hand raised @ Azeem-Namoo Speaking to school authorities during a working visit to the Azeem-Namoo Community Senior High-Technical School [SHTS] on Thursday March 21, 2019, the DCE reiterated his directive given earlier to education authorities in the area stressing that, he did not expect to see any such schools spring up. The visit was to enable see for himself, how the students and authorities were coping with academic and to also assess, the progress of work on various ongoing projects on the campus. Explaining his reason for the directive, Hon. Ayinbisa noted that the rampant setting up of such schools only brings undue pressure on the Ass...

One of the major challenges graduates from Ghana’s Health Training Institutions often faced especially the nursing crop of graduates, is the long years of waiting for intake by the Ghana Health Service [GHS] after the successful completion of their courses. But this problem will soon become history as the Upper East Regional Minister, Hon. Paulina Patience Abayage, announced this Wednesday that, as much as 40,000 nurses will be employed in the next months. Upper East Reg. Min., Hon. Abayage speaking at CHNTC -N The Regional Minister made the announcement in an interface meeting with students of the Navrongo Community Health Nurses’ Training C ollege [CHNTC-N] on day two of her familiarisation tours to some selected tertiary institutions across the region. She added that the Ministry of Health and for that matter, authorities of the GHS had been given clearance to recruit and deploy various grades of nurses to beef up the staff strength at health facilities across the country. ...

The Upper East Regional Minister, Hon. Paulina Patience Abayage has commenced a week-long familiarisation tour to some selected tertiary institutions and business set-ups across the region. The tours started in the Bolgatanga Municipality on Tuesday March 12, 2019 and are expected to climax next Tuesday, 19 th March, 2019 in the Pusiga District. According to the Regional Minister, these tours are to afford her a personal feel of real-time happenings at the institutions and also expose her to first-hand information that will guide the Regional Coordinating Council’s response to the needs of these institutions. She added that where government sees the need to link up the region’s educational institutions and indigenous businesses to donor agencies and critical development partners, it will not hesitate to do so. On the first day, the Regional Minister and her team called at the premises of MINSSAP Ventures, a local investor into the production of organic oils from pressed-frui...

Authorities of the Ghana Health Service in the Bongo District of the Upper East Region as well as Management of the Bongo District Hospital, have received huge praises from the Upper East Regional Minister for achieving a record of zero maternal deaths from 2018 to date. This coincides with the International Women’s Day celebration, a day set aside globally to celebrate and support women’s rights. The Regional Minister, Hon. Paulina Patience Abayage heaped the praises on the authorities when she addressed a day’s seminar on “zero maternal death” organised by the Bongo District Health Directorate under the theme:- Sustaining Zero Maternal Deaths In Bongo – The Role Of Stakeholders. She also acknowledged the efforts of the District Assembly by way of construction and renovation of CHPS facilities for health service delivery while commending the traditional leadership in the area and community members for their individual support to the health authorities in achieving this enviable ...

An indelible mark is made in history in the life of the Upper East Region as the region has for the first time, celebrated Ghana’s annual independence anniversary outside Bolgatanga, the Regional Capital. Hon. Paulina P. Abayage, UE Regional delivering her address This comes on the background of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s historic instruction that, the country’s national parade and celebrations of its 62 nd independence anniversary be held in the Northern Regional capital of Tamale. For the past 61 years, Ghana’s national capital of Accra always hosted the country’s national celebrations of its independence anniversary. So therefore in like manner, Upper East Regional Minister, Hon. Paulina Patience Abayage also addressed a colourful parade of school children and personnel from the various security agencies at a regional parade and celebrations of the country’s independence anniversary hosted by the Bongo District on 6 th March, 2019 under the theme, “Celeb...