Tag Archives: WA

The founder of the Danquah Institute (DI), Mr Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko has described the flogging of two lovers whose sex tape went viral in Wa, as “insane.” “Two consenting adults (man and woman) decide to film themselves having sex, apparently. The tape goes viral and some in the community believe …

The Wa Naa has distanced his Palace from the public flogging of a girl and boy at the forecourt of the Palace on Tuesday afternoon. Through his spokesperson, he has disassociated himself and condemned the floggers of persons seen in a leaked sex video. The Ghana News Agency (GNA) reports that Naa …

The Catholic Bishop of the Wa Diocese, Most Rev. Richard Kuuia Baawobr, has been appointed a cardinal for the Catholic Church. Rev. Baawobr was appointed alongside 21 other cardinals who will assume their roles at the Vatican in August 2022. The list was announced by Pope Francis. Bishop Baawobr currently …

A stud conducted by the Upper West Regional Youth Parliament with funding support from Plan International Ghana has found that 83 per cent of adolescent girls in Wa East trade sex for money to buy sanitary towels during their period. The study was titled: ‘Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health in …

The Wa Magistrate Court has remanded into police custody, Abdul Rahman Yunusah, a former team manager of the Wa All-Stars Football Club, who allegedly shot and killed a former lecturer of the Dr. Hilla Limann Technical University and wounded four others. He is to reappear on March 25 after the …

A 64-year-old retired lecturer of the Wa Technical University, Mr. Steven Maani, has died after he was reportedly hit by a stray bullet at Danku, a suburb in the Wa Municipality of the Upper West Region. Mr. Steven Maani who was said to be a part-time lecturer before his death …

Alhaji Saani Inusah, the former Wa All-Stars Team Manager, has allegedly shot dead one Stephen Mane, a former lecturer at the Dr Hilla Limann Technical University, over land in dispute. Four other people also sustained various degrees of injury during the incident. An eyewitness told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) …

A provision shop owner and a seamstress have escaped death by the whiskers in the Wa Municipality of the Upper West Region after a tipper truck fully loaded with sand veered off the road and ran into their shops, destroying parts of the shops in the process. The incident occurred …

Nine persons have been confirmed dead after they were involved in an accident that occurred on the Sawla-Wa road on Wednesday December 7. Nine others were seriously injured. The deceased have been transported to the Wa Government hospital morgue whereas the injured are also receiving treatment at the same hospital. …

President’s nominee, Alhaji Issahaku Tahiru Moomen, has been confirmed to serve a second term as Wa Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) amidst pockets of violence. There were mixed feelings among Assembly members, the political class, and observers present at the Wa Municipal Assembly Conference Hall when at the end of counting …