Published by Inusah Dondaliya

5th March 2026

At the Tamale Metropolitan Presiding Membership elections being held today at the Assembly’s auditorium supervised by the Electoral Commission of Ghana, a clear cut winner was not produced as each candidate failed to meet the threshold of two-thirds majority of the votes.

While the incumbent Fuseini Okasha obtained 27 votes out of the 58 ballot votes cast. Iddrisu Ibrahim, who is 2nd on the ballot pulled a stunner, after gaining 30 votes pushing the contest to second round.

The two candidates are standing for the Tamale Metro PM election, with the Incumbent PM, Fuseini Okasha who doubles as Buglanfong Electoral Area Assembly Member, facing fierce competition from Changli Electoral area Assembly Member, Iddrisu Ibrahim.

The duo vied for the same elections in the previous contest two years ago. Following similar circumstances not producing a clear winner, the Assembly Member of Changli stepped down to allow the current PM had the nod.

Under similar outcome of results, with the PM trailing Mr. Iddrisu Ibrahim this year’s contest, the former refused to stepdown for confirmation of the latter following extensive dialogue.

Reports gathered indicate that the PM’s refusal to step down is in breach of consensus built among Assembly Members prior to the elections, who had all agreed on simple majority following their serious of meeting.

Speculations further rife that the Mayor of Tamale endorses the candidature of the current MP, while the front runner now, attracts majority support from the Assembly Members.

At the time of filing this report, the Electoral Commission has suspended the Tamale Metropolitan Assembly’s Presiding Member elections indefinitely following difficulty in reaching a common ground.

Published by Inusah Dondaliya

25th February 2026

The Mayor of Tamale, Adam Abukari Takoro has cut sod for construction of 6-unit classroom block at Zakaliyili, a farming community under Tamale South Constituency, aimed at increasing access to education and providing educational infrastructure to communities where there are no public schools.

This reflects the wish of the community members as access to basic education has been a challenging one to their kids due to lack of community basic school, resulting to their children trekking several distant kilometers to seek education.

Following the ground breaking ceremony for the commencement of the construction of the 6-unit classroom block on Tuesday 24th February 2026, by the Tamale Mayor, the predicament of the children with school going-age will soon be over as the project is expected to be completed in 8 months’ time.

Hon. Abu Takoro cut the sod on behalf of the Education Minister and MP for Tamale South, Haruna Iddrisu under whose influence the project came to fruition through Ghana Accountability for Learning Outcomes project known as GALOP.

It forms part of shared commitment and responsibility of the MP and the Tamale Mayor not to only increase access to education within the area but to also ensure inclusive education at all stages especially at the basic level.

The Chief and and elders of Zakaliyili joined the Mayor and his team at the project site in the community to break the ground for the work to start in earnest.Also, Accompanying the Mayor for the sod cutting ceremony were officers from the Planning and Engineering department of the Tamale Metro Assembly and other senior staff.

Addressing the Chief and the elders during his courtesy call to the community Palace prior to the ground breaking ceremony, the Mayor urged the community members to collaborate with the contractors for smooth work on site, admonishing them to serve as watchdogs of the project against any theft of construction materials among other forces that can work against the progress of the work.

He also urged the engineers in charge of the project to hire the unskilled labor within the community as laborers for the construction works.

On behalf of the community, the chief expressed his happiness over the project, noting that children who hitherto move to long distances in search of education in other communities will soon heave a sigh of relief now.

Published by Inusah Dondaliya

20th February 2026

Some Selected Mosques in Tamale have received food and assorted items from the Managing Director of Ghana Commercial Bank, Alhaji Farhan Alhassan, aimed at supporting Ramadan Festive season.

The gesture by Alhaj Farhan Alhassan forms part of his philanthropic drive of giving back to the society through GCB’s Corporate Social Responsibility.

The beneficiary Mosques include Anbariya Mosque, Bambawuyya Mosque, and Tamale Central Mosque.

Each mosque received 30 bags of rice, 10 bags of sugar, 10 cartons of milk, 10 cartons of Milo, and 10 cartons of Lifton Tea. In addition, they were each gifted with 10,000 Ghana Cedis.

On behalf of the various Mosques, their representatives expressed profound gratitude to the MD for the gesture, praying to Allah for only not rewarding him back abundantly but shield him from evil in his field of work.

On his part, the MD of GCB, Alhaj Farhan Alhassan mentioned that the Bank is embarking on this gesture as part of its corporate social responsibility.