Eight people are feared dead with dozens injured on the Yendi -
Tamale road Thursday following a motor crash, according to health...
The Yendi Divisional Police Commander, ACP Jonathan Adams Godoe, who briefed the media at Yendi said about 01:00 hours on Tuesday September 12, they had information that some armed men were operating at Puriya, a village along the Sang to
Tamale road.
Chairman of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Road and Transport, Theophilus Tetteh - Chaie, says some people must be punished for the accident that claimed 63 passengers and injured 25 passengers on Kintampo -
Tamale road.
Last Wednesday, a Metro Mass Transit (MMT) bus and a cargo truck collided head - on on the Kintampo -
Tamale road leaving scores dead.
Mahama further tweeted, «Emergency services working to attend to injured passengers in the M.M.T. Bus accident on the Kintampo -
Tamale road.
Mr Mahama wrote on Facebook that he «received the sad news of an accident involving an MMT bus on the Kintampo -
Tamale road.
President Mahama told the IGP that he was assuming office at a very sad time of the nation when 60 lives had been lost in «a dastardly accident» on the Kintampo -
Tamale road.
Not exact matches
The Wednesday
road accident has built heavy traffic on the
Tamale - Kumasi corridor
road, as vehicles queue in wait for the accident scene to clear.
He made references to some projects that government has borrowed monies from the international market to initiate for infrastructure transformation, the $ 100 million works on upgrade of the
Tamale airport to an international airport; $ 38 million
Tamale teaching hospital phase one; $ 172 million Kejetia Market; $ 1billion Atuabu gas project,
roads infrastructure among other tall lists of projects in the country that he said are visible for Ghanaian to see.
The Fufulso Sawla asphalted
road have brought a great relieve to the people of
Tamale and beyond.
Ghanaian dancehall king, Shatta Wale, is to perform at the campaign launch of the Minister of
Roads and Highways, Alhaji Inusah Fuseini in
Tamale on Saturday, October 1.
The leadership of the Yendi chapter of the Ghana Private
Road Transport Union (GPRTU) of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) has threatened to block the Tamale - Yendi road in two weeks if the contractor working on it does not speed up work on
Road Transport Union (GPRTU) of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) has threatened to block the
Tamale - Yendi
road in two weeks if the contractor working on it does not speed up work on
road in two weeks if the contractor working on it does not speed up work on it.
The
Tamale - Salaga - Mankango
road is under construction and this comes with other ancillary facilities.
According to him, per preliminary investigations, they found that the driver of a Neoplan bus with 70 passengers onboard from Nalerigu to Ejura on reaching a section of the
road at Yapei - Yipala on the
Tamale - Buipe Highway was attempting to overtake a cargo car ahead of him in a curve.
«About 1.42 am, a suspect driver whose name is not yet known was in charge of Neoplan bus with registration number GW 2659 T with 70 passengers on board traveling from Nalerigu to Ejura on reaching a section of the
road at Yapei - Yipala in a curve on the
Tamale - Buipe Highway he attempted to overtake a cargo car ahead of him», ASP Tanko said.
He said security checkpoints would be mounted at vantage points in the
Tamale Metropolis to thoroughly search vehicles and motorcycles which used those
roads late at night.
According to a journalist based in
Tamale Alhaji Tanko, Seidu allegedly lost his job as an engineer at the Ghana Feeder
Roads after the NDC race and the aggrieved supporters feel he is being witch hunted by the
Roads and Highways Minister.
Mynewsgh.com spotted them on some parts of the
Tamale Metropolis including the main street on the Barclays Bank
road on Wednesday but later saw same on various social media platforms.
The Member of Parliament for Zabzugu Constituency in the Northern Region, Alhassan Umar Obaako, has been involved in a car crash on the
Tamale - Zabzugu
road.
«The city of
Tamale is perhaps one of the cities in Ghana that has bicycle lanes clearly different from the main
roads and pedestrian walkways and so this makes
Tamale a very unique city.»
A group of suspected armed robbers operating on the
Tamale - Salaga
road, have shot and killed a worker of Engineers and Planners (EP) Company, Williams Boamah.
The governing National Democratic Congress (NDC),
Tamale north constituency Parliamentary candidate, Alhassan Suhuyini has outlined education, health, agriculture, women empowerment, youth employment and
roads as his vision for the constituency.
From Hohoe to
Tamale is 400 km, of which a large part on unpaved
roads.