The Bunkprugu-Yunyoo district is one of the eighteen districts of the Northern Region. It was created in the year 2004 as part of the government’s efforts to further decentralize governance.
It has Bunkprugu as its administrative capital. The district is located at the north-eastern end of the Northern Region of Ghana. It shares boundaries in the north with the Garu-Tempane, to the east with Togo, west with East Mamprusi and to the south by Gushegu and Saboba Chereponi.
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One of the prime agenda of the new patriotic party Government since it assumed office in 2001 has been the idea of elevating the status-quo of women to certain pedestal to this end, appointments by his Excellency president john Agyekum Kufour to certain revered positions have seen quite a sizeable number of women clinching those positions that hitherto were reserved for their male counterparts.
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The huge indebtedness of the Bunkpurugu-Yunyoo District Assembly has made it difficult for the assembly to initiate or execute new projects and programmes to improve on the lives of its people.
BUNKPURUGU-YUNYOO: One dead, others rendered homeless in violence One man lost his life and 387 people were rendered homeless last Sunday when a chieftaincy dispute between two factions at Temaa, a village near Nankpanduri in the Bunkpurugu/Yunyoo District of the Northern Region, culminated in a flare up.
BUNKPURUGU-YUNYOO: Three arrested for attempting to lynch travellers Police personnel on local peace keeping mission in the Bunkpurugu/Yunyoo district have arrested three suspects for attempting to lynch three travelers from Accra-Amasaman to Garu-Tempane District in the Upper East Region.
BUNKPURUGU -YUNYOO: Water project for communities Communities faced with water problems in the Bunkpurugu Nyonyoo District in the Northern Region are to benefit from a seven year Northern Region Small Town water and Sanitation (NORST) project.
