NPP, NDC Profiting From Bimbilla Conflict
Kingmakers in Bimbilla have accused the country’s two major political parties, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) of making political gain out of the...
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Minister Meets Bimbilla Regent
Minister for Interior, Ambrose Dery, has called on the people of Bimbilla to let last Thursday’s chieftaincy related killings be the last in the area. Mr. Dery made the call when he led a...
Government Will Restore Lasting Peace To Bimbilla
Minister of the Interior Ambrose Dery has assured the chiefs and people of Bimbilla of the government's commitment to restore lasting peace in the area. He said the government was committed to...
WANEP Urges ‘strict Vigilance’ By Police Despite Stability
Peace and security advocate, West Africa Network for Peace building (WANEP), wants security agencies to heighten surveillance in conflict-struck Bimbila, despite the recent calm in the area. The...
Blame Ibn Chambas – Kingmakers
Mohammed Ibn Chambas, the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General in West Africa and the Sahel, should be blamed for the unending chieftaincy conflict in Bimbilla in the...
Ministers Ground Flight
Africa World Airline flight 167 scheduled from Tamale to Accra was delayed over an hour due to the lateness of four Ministers of State. The minister who comprise Salifu Saeed who is Northern Regional...
Government Delegation Meets Bimbila Regent For Peace Talks
Minister for Interior, Mr Ambrose Dery, has called on the people of Bimbilla to let last Thursday's chieftaincy related killings be the last in the area. Mr Dery made the call when he led a...
Don’t Let Lives Lost Be For Nothing – Regent Tells Otiko Djaba Over Bimbila Clashes
Regent of Bimbila, Yalimogo Andani Dasana, has appealed the Minister for Gender, Women, Children and Social Protection, Madam Otiko Hafisa Djaba, not to let the death of women and children killed in...
Bimbilla Regent Cautions Against Political Intervention
Mr Tahidu Osman Kikaa, spokesperson of the Regent of Bimbilla, Naa Andani Dasana has cautioned against political intervention in the Bimbilla chieftaincy dispute. He said accession to the Bimbilla...
Nobody Will Die Again In Bimbilla – Akufo-Addo Declares
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has announced that the 10 persons that died in the recent chieftaincy clashes in Bimbila in the Nanumba-North District of Northern Region will be the last of its...
Bimbilla Hospital Shuts Down Following Chieftaincy Dispute
Nanumba-North District Health Directorate has sought advice from the Northern Regional Health Directorate to close down the Bimbilla District Hospital. In the wake of a recent deadly clash in the...
Interior Minister, IGP Visit Bimbilla
The Interior Minister, Ambrose Dery and Inspector General of Police (IGP), David Asante-Apeatu will be visiting Bimbilla where a protracted intra-ethnic chieftaincy violence killed many and uprooted...
Interior Minister, IGP Jet To Conflict-Hit Bimbila For Assessment
Interior Minister, Ambrose Dery, and Inspector General of Police (IGP) David Asante-Apeatu will visit conflict-hit Bimbila Tuesday to meet a special investigative team probing the recent violence....
Bimbilla Regent Blames Police For Recent Conflict & Killings
The Secretary of the regent of Bimbilla, Alhassan Sualisu has blamed the security for the killings in Bimbilla. He said after informing the police of the enskinment of the warrior chiefs, the police...
Bimbilla Clashes: 17 Granted Bail
A District Court in Tamale has granted bail to some 17 suspects arrested in the latest chieftaincy clashes in Bimbilla after a Circuit Court judge earlier swerved the case. Police initially arrested...
Bimbilla Clashes
A District Court in Tamale has granted bail to some 17 suspects arrested in the latest chieftaincy clashes in Bimbilla after a Circuit Court judge earlier swerved the case. Police initially arrested...
Gbiyini Chief Warns Factions Against Using Media To Fuel Tension In Bimbilla
The chief of Gbiyini in Bimbilla, Chief Amadu Mustapha, has appealed to factions in the Bimbla chieftaincy dispute, to desist from using the media to fuel further tension in the area. He said,...
Bimbilla Hospital Authorities Mull Over Closing Down Facility
The Nanumba-North District Health Directorate is seeking advice from the Northern Regional Health Directorate to close down the Bimbila District Hospital. In the wake of recent deadly clash in the...
Schools, Businesses Closed Down
Social and economic activities have come to a standstill at Bimbilla, two days after calm was restored to the town. All public and private schools in the town have been closed down to protect the...
These Chieftaincy Conflicts In the North Must Stop!
THE three regions in the northern part of Ghana—Northern, Upper East and Upper West Regions—are common for their underdevelopment status. One will not be wrong at all to say that these are...