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Tamale Central:Peace Council holds dialogue with Aspirants ahead of NDC Primaries

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Published: 06 September 2025

The Northern Regional Peace Council(NRPC) is calling on all stakeholders including Political Parties and residents of Tamale Central to embrace peace and conduct themselves peacefully before, during and after the forth coming by-elections.

The NRPC underscores the significance of the elections allowing the citizens to exercise their constitutional rights and participate in shaping the future of communities but not engage in the acts of violence.

This follows a peace dialogue held on Thursday, 4th September 2025 with the Aspirants in the upcoming Tamale Central NDC’s Parliamentary Primaries following the tragic passing of the incumbent MP, Dr. Murtala Mohammed Ibrahim.

The meeting was aimed at shaping the campaign messages and slogans of Aspirants, ensuring peaceful contest among contenders at the end of the exercise, devoid of rancour, violence among other distasteful acts.

Leading the peace dialogue were members of the Northern Regional Peace Council, such as Alhaji Mohammed Awal Alhassan, Mr. Nuhu Abukari, Acting Executive Secretary-NRPC, Hajia Sahadatu, and Sheikh Hussein Jarijaa. among others.

Also at the round table for the peace dialogue were some of the Aspirants, which included, Lawyer, Sadat Haruna, Muleika Salisu, Mariama Naama Salifu and Hajia Shamima Yakubu. Depicting that all the female aspirants in the contest responded to the call by the Peace Council.

While he could not make it to the meeting, Hon. Hanan Gundado was represented by his Special Aide, Abdul Wahab. Meanwhile, some of the Aspirants could not make it to the meeting as promised.

The Aspirants who took time out of their busy schedule to honor the invitation by the Peace Council, committed themselves to the peace process, pledging to do everything at their disposal to ensure peace.

Addressing the Aspirants On behalf of the Northern Regional Peace Council, Alhaj Mohammed Awal Alhassan, underscores the essence of ensuring peace in the entire process, pleading with the Aspirants to conduct themselves well and not employ absurd machinations to mar the sustained peace enjoyed in Tamale for a long while now.

Mr. Mohammed Awal disclosed that Peace Council has been monitoring campaign activities of all the Aspirants since the inception of the process, expressing satisfaction about their conduct relative to their campaign messages, ideas and counter ideas, but maintains that more need to be done through endurance of pain, patience, and restraint by aspirants to achieve the ultimate peace in the process.

He also noted that producing a credible winner for the NDC at the end of the contest should not be the outstanding goal for the Aspirants but ensuring incident free elections with peaceful outcome should rather be the Hallmark.

Some of the Aspirants also seized the moment to plead with the Peace Council to involve Party Executives in the Peace dialogue process in their subsequent engagement for eventuality such as this, for true reflection of fair representation of stakeholders who matter in the entire peace value chain.

While other Aspirants underscores the need for fairness and transparency as ingredients to peace in the fierce contest, they urge the Peace Council to advocate for these elements from the organizers in this process.

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Tolon MP hands over Canoe Boat to the People of Zantani worth GHC80,000

Deputy Minority Chief Whip and MP for Tolon, Hon. Alhaj Habib Iddrisu has handed over a Canoe Boat to the people of Zantani, a riverine community, marking a significant step of enhancing transportation of the residents across the river.

The Canoe Boat which is 40-horsepower was commissioned for use by the MP worth 80,000 Ghana Cedis.

At a ceremony in Zantani, Hon. Habib Iddrisu handed over the Canoe and 50 live jackets to the Chief of the community, stating his commitment to addressing the basic essentials of the community members.

This follows several other interventions including connecting the community to national grid, provision of boreholes, women empowerment initiatives, donation of start-up tools to Master Craft Persons and Apprentices among others delivered to the people of Zantani tailored to reducing their plight and addressing their socio-economic needs.

Addressing the people, the MP asked them to take good care of the Canoe Boat, advising them to always fuel it with premix fuel for its safety and durability.

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Ghanasco 65th Anniversary: Jira Buipewura Abdulai Jinapor donates a Bull to the school

The Paramount Chief of Buipe Traditional Area, Buipe Wura Abdulai Jinapor, has also contributed his widow’s might towards the 65th anniversary celebration of Ghana Senior High School, by donating a bull, a bag of maize, and undisclosed amount of cash to the management of the school.

Delegation led by elders of Buipe Wura Palace, presented the donations to the school on Thursday, 20th November, 2025 as part of activities marking the 65th anniversary celebration.

This follows a visit to the Jira Buipe Wura Abdulai Jinapor to inform him about the anniversary celebration months ago by a delegation led by the Head Master of Ghanasco, Douglas Haruna Yakubu. The Chief was also invited to attend the ceremony.

Presenting the items on behalf of the Gira Buipewura, Abdulai Jinapor, Ayawasu Gonja Chief in the Greater Accra Region, Garaba Lukman Issahaka Jaja expressed the commitment of the Chief to support the 65th anniversary celebration of Ghanasco, the reason, he made such donation to the school.

On behalf of the entire school, the head Master of Ghanasco, Douglas Haruna Yakubu expressed his profound gratitude to the Buipewura for the gesture done them, remarking that it will add value to the anniversary celebration which comes off today

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N/R GJA Awards: Inusah Hamzah Lansah wins best Energy and Electricity Advocacy award

Sagani TV’s Community Watch Host, Inusah Hamzah Lansah, has been adjudged the Best advocate in energy and electricity against power theft known as illegal connection in the Northern Region.

At the 5th Northern Region Ghana Journalists Association Awards held on Saturday Night, 15th November 2025, in Tamale, Inusah Lansah was recognized for his consistent advocacy in sensitizing power consumers to honor their tariffs obligations against engaging in illegal connection accounting to revenue shorfalls by NEDCo and other partners in the energy value chain.

Also, on the awards night, Inusah Armeyaw Anas of Sagani Tv was also named the best reporter in Tourism and Culture.They were presented with citations and plaques by GJA in recognition of excellence in their journalistic work.

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As reward for his award, Inusah Hamzah Lansah was rewarded with 2,000 Ghana Cedis.

The Sagani TV’s anchor, Hamzah Lansah’s advocacy gained momentum, changing people’s attitude and mentality in the wake of NEDCo’s revenue mobilization drive of mass disconnection exercise in the Greater Tamale including meter monitoring exercise.

Having realized his contribution in the energy sector, Ghana Journalists Association, Northern Regional Chapter awarded Inusah Hamza Lansah for his outstanding role in influencing people to eschew power theft and resorting to appropriate means of honoring their tariffs obligations.

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Through the Sagani TV’s Community Watch, Inusah Hamza Lansah uses the platform to highlight the plight of communities in the social sector such as poor roads network, lack of potable Drinking water, sanitation challenges, Educational infrastructure deficit, drug abuse among the youth, among other issues for the attention of duty bearers for intervention.

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