Tag Archives: PWALUGU

Police justify the shooting of a female pillion rider near Pwalugu

Police in the Upper East Region have justified the shooting of a female pillion rider by officers manning a checkpoint a few kilometers after Pwalugu. Laadi Wunia, who was the pillion rider, was reportedly shot in the waist and arm after the rider ignored an instruction by the police to …

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VRA Embarks On ESIA For Pwalugu Multi-Purpose Dam Project 

The Volta River Authority Working in partnership with Tractable Consultants/SRC Ghana, Environmental Protection Authority (EPA), Forestry Commission of Ghana and the Regional Coordinating Council for both Upper East and North East Regions are currently embarking on the Environmental Social Impact  Assessment (ESIA) as part of the full implementation of the …

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Construction of Pwalugu Multi-Purpose Dam commences

The President H. E. Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo cut the sod in November 2019 for the construction of the Multipurpose Dam.   The dam will benefit Ghanaians in many aspects such as electricity, fisheries, irrigation and control of flood.   The primary components of the Pwalugu Multi-Purpose Dam Project consist …

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VIDEO: Former Deputy Minister exposed over Pwalugu multipurpose dam

Former Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry Mohammed Murtala Mohammed last Saturday on Joy Fm’s news analysis programme, Newsfile exposed himself when he suggested that the claim the Pwalugu Multipurpose Dam and Irrigation Scheme is the largest single investment in the northern part of Ghana is false He asserted that …

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$993m Pwalugu dam will end Bagre dam disasters – Akufo-Addo

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has broken ground for the construction of the Pwalugu Multipurpose Dam and Irrigation Project. The project, according to President Akufo-Addo, “will be the single, largest investment ever made by any government in the northern sector of the country”, and is in fulfilment of a pledge …

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