The Bunkpurugu-Yunyoo district is one of the nineteen 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 Bunkpurugu 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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Bunkpurugu – Yunyoo is a district that has the socio -economic growth of women as one of the core of its objectives and is especially focusing on the removal of negative cultural practices that infringe on the rights of women.
Among the priorities is the district’s commitment to improving the quality of its people and has over the years devoted a lot of its resource in creating an enabling environment that will lead to food security, a well educated and healthy population.
Members of the Youth wing of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), in the Bunkpurugu Yunyoo constituency have been advised to refrain from politics of insults and needless threat to party officials and parliamentary candidates.
BUNKPURUGU: DCE warns assembly staff against absenteeism The District Chief Executive of Bunkpurugu/Yunyoo District Assembly Hon.Philip Nanteeb Laari, has cautioned staff of the assembly against the acts of Absenteeism, drunkenness and lateness to work.
BUNKPURUGU: DCE lauds achievements in education Chief Executive of the Bunkpurugu/Yunyoo District, Philip N Laari has expressed delight at the rate of development in the education sector in the district in the past three years.
