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.
About 54,975 persons have been registered in the just ended biometric voter registration exercise in the Bunkpurugu/Yunyoo District, the Chief Executive, Philip N. Laari has hinted.
BUNKPURUGU Y: Assembly takes delivery of 270 high tension poles The District Chief Executive for the Bunkpurugu-Yunyoo District Assembly, Philip Laari, has assured that all communities earmarked to be connected to the national grid under the Rural Electrification Project (REP) in the district will get light by the end of this year.
BUNKPURUGU : 270 individuals source financial support from LEAP An Officer from the Department of Social Welfare in the Bunkpurugu-Yunyoo district, Daniel Waab has called for increase in the monetary supports given to the poor and vulnerable in the local areas through the Livelihood Empowerment against Poverty (LEAP) programme.
BUNKPURUGU Y: 55 youth complete training under LESDEP The District Chief Executive for the Bunkpurugu-Yunyoo District Assembly, Phillip Laari, has echoed that the Local Entreprises and Skills Development Programme (LESDEP) initiated by government has the capacity to bring economic change in the lives of the youth and also reduce poverty in the district.
