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  Earlier today Thursday 22nd 2022, the DCE for Daffiama Bussie Issa, DBI handed over a three-unit JHS block contract for the Fian community to a contractor.  In a short community durbar, the 2020 parliamentary candidate for NPP thanked the people of Fian especially the chief and elders for the rousing welcome and for also availing land for the project to be sited.  He, however, admonished the people of Fian to show support and be accommodating enough to the contractor; he believes this will inure to a fast completion of the project which has a timeline of six months. The Hon. DCE also seized the opportunity to create awareness among the people of the ongoing community water project which is aimed at solving the longstanding water crisis in the Fian community.  The chief and elders lauded the initiative as they believe it will ease congestion at the existing. JHS and facilitate effective teaching and learning. The contractor pledged to get to work asap to be able to ...

  Infinity Sparta, Artist The Upper West based Reggae/Dancehall Artist, Infinity Sparta on Tuesday December 20 cleared the airwaves on claims that his latest track titled "The Government Hear We" is being politicized. In an interview with the entertainment news host of Tumpaani FM, King Process, Sparta explains that his track "The Government Hear We" is devoid of partisan politics, however it is a message to inform the government that things are not going right in the country.  He states that the youth are suffering and as a youth he feels the pains of his colleagues in this country, hence the government have to hear the voices of the people of this country. The "Mama" hitmaker, in his latest track released in December 2022 chastised government for the economic hardship in the country and called on the "big men in suits" to try and put things in place. This however did not go down well with some people therefore claiming he is doing politics. He...

  Hon. Denis Andaban, NDC Communication Officer for DBI The Communication Officer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) for the Daffiama Bussie Issa, DBI Constituency, Hon. Denis Andaban popularly known as Village Boy From DBI has on 14th December, 2022 expressed how disappointed he is on the position of DBI on the District League Table (DLT).  Speaking to Barister Enock, the morning show host for Tumpaani 88.5FM on a phone interview during their morning show, Hon. Denis disclosed that, DBI has been ranked 257th out of 260 districts in the country and has become the last in the Upper West Region by scoring 30.69% in the 2021 DLT which according to him is a "national embarrassment" as far as the district is concerned.  The DLT is the annual ranking of the districts' performance based on their developmental activities  in the country by the Local Government Service as a measure of informing districts across the country on their developmental performance.  Reco...

  The Constituency Chairman for the Daffiama-Bussie-Issa Constituency, Boniface Tienaah who doubles as the Dean for constituency chairmen in the Upper West Region has stated that, the only solution to our current economic challenges, leading to excruciating hardships, is to work hard and bring back the National Democratic Congress into power. He explains that the deliberate collapse of some local businesses by the NPP government has plunged the country into insolvency. He cited the collapse of GN Bank as an example. The party chairman and business mogul made the comments while interacting with a score of branch executives and party supporters in Daffiama ward as part of a thank you tour being embarked upon by the newly elected constituency executives.  He assured the branch executives that the current constituency executives will work very hard in unison while having the welfare of party members at heart and challenged the branch executives to make sacrifices at their level to...

Nadowli Community Team which doubled as the host community has been crowned overall champions for the second time in the second edition of the Azumah Inter-Community Football Gala which took place on the 3rd and 4th of December 2022 in Nadowli, the district capital of the Nadowli/Kaleo District. Azumah Resources Limited, a gold exploration company based in Nadowli in the Upper West Region, as one of its ultimate goals of fostering unity in the Upper West Region, has organized for the second time an Inter-Community Football Gala comprising of eight different communities namely, Nadowli, Papu, Charikpong, Sombo, Goli/Serekpere, Yaga, Kaleo and Takpo all in the Upper West Region. Nadowli community team, the second time champions however emerged winners after beating Goli/Serekpere 2 – 0 in the final match therefore leaving Goli/Serekpere second in the tournament.  Kaleo on the other hand became 3rd after beating Charikpong community team 2 – 1 whilst competing for the third and fourth...