The Tamale Metropolitan Assembly is located at the centre of the Northern Region. It lies between latitude 9.16° and 9.34° North and longitudes 00.36°and 00.57
The Tamale Metropolitan Assembly is located approximately 180 metres above sea level. The topography is generally rolling with some shallow valleys which serve as stream courses. There are also some isolated hills but these do not inhibit physical development.
The Tamale Metropolis in general is believed to have a population in the region of between 350,000 to 450,000 people, even though the 2000 population and Housing census put the population of Metropolis at 293,881. This, according to the Census is made up of 146,979 males and 146,902 females.
The Northern Regional Coordinating Council has taken delivery of the first consignment of relief items for those affected by the series of rainstorms that have devastated the region.rthern Region rain disaster victims receive relief items
A report released at a day’s sensitization workshop on the enforcement of anti-bush fire by-laws in Tamale has posited that the non-implementation of the by-law is the cause to poor and low crop yield in northern Ghana.
More than 2,000 farmers in six communities in the Northern Region of Ghana are to benefit from a 500 metric tons certified warehouse receipt system for grain storage at Datoyili in Tamale.
Mr Alhassan Andani, the Board Chairman of the Savanna Accelerated Development Authoroty(SADA) has charged all those who have been given opportunity to contribute to realizing SADA’s development to do so passionately, assuring that the board will deliver its mandate of making the authority a success.