Historically, the Upper East Region is part of what used to be the Upper Region (Upper East and Upper West), which was itself carved out of what used to be the Northern Region on 1st July, 1960.
From 1902 the old Northern Territory was a British protectorate until 1960 when it was separated into the Northern and Upper Region. The Upper Region was later apportioned into Upper East and Upper West in 1983 during the PNDC rule.
The process actually started in 1980 when what eventually became Upper West was run on an experimental base as a semi-autonomous region with Wa as the administrative centre, even though the Upper Regional Minister at Bolgatanga exercised overall responsibility.
Construction workers engaged on the OLA Senior High School project at Gaane in Navrongo in the Kassena East District were on Tuesday threatened and beaten-up by locals because “they have stolen their jobs”.
The Minister of Information, Hon. John Tia Akologo has called on Municipal and District Assemblies in the Upper East Region to sponsor students in the Health Sector so that they would dutifully serve the Region after graduation.
The Upper East Regional Minister, Mr. Mark Woyongo has expressed frustration at the refusal of health personnel to the region resulting in acute shortages being recorded in most of the facilities.
The Paramount Chief of the Bolgatanga Traditional Area, Naba Martin Adongo Abilba III has called on government to consider a pragmatic programme designed to factor in an effective water transport system to northern Ghana, under the Savannah Accelerated Development Programme.
Youth Link Ghana, a health based non governmental organisation (NGO), in the Builsa District, has embarked on a campaign to eradicate malaria and create a healthy environment for the vulnerable youth in the area.
The masssive education embarked on by the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) for communities along the White and Black Volta in the Bawku West District in the Upper East Region, towards the opening of the Bagre Dam in Burkina Faso has helped in saving lives and properties.
A non-governmental organisation, based in Denmark, ‘M S Action Aid’, has donated health and educational facilities, worth three thousand dollars(3,000) to the Builsa south constituency, in the Builsa district of the Upper East Region.
Municipal and District Chief Executives in the Upper East Region have been urged to appoint only competent and active people to Assemblies and not favourites and party loyalists, who might not be up to the task.
