Sagnarigu Municipal District is one of the sixteen districts in Northern Region,

Ghana Ghana (; tw, Gaana, ee, Gana), officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It abuts the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, sharing borders with Ivory Coast in the west, Burkina Faso in the north, and To ...

. Originally it was formerly part of the then-larger

Tamale Municipal District Tamale Metropolitan District is one of the sixteen districts in Northern Region, Ghana. Originally created as a municipal district assembly in 1988 when it was known as Tamale Municipal District, which was created from the former West Dagomba Di ...

in 1988, which was created from the former

West Dagomba District West Dagomba District is a former district council that was located in Northern Region, Ghana. Originally created as an ordinary district assembly in 1975. However on 1988, it was split off into three new district assemblies: Tamale Municipal Dis ...

Council, until a small northern part of the district was split off to create

Sagnarigu District Sagnarigu Municipal District is one of the sixteen districts in Northern Region, Ghana. Originally it was formerly part of the then-larger Tamale Municipal District in 1988, which was created from the former West Dagomba District Council, until ...

on 24 June 2012; thus the remaining part has been retained as

Tamale Metropolitan District Tamale Metropolitan District is one of the sixteen districts in Northern Region, Ghana. Originally created as a municipal district assembly in 1988 when it was known as Tamale Municipal District, which was created from the former West Dagomba D ...

(which it was elevated to metropolitan district assembly status in August 2004). However, on 15 March 2018, it was elevated to municipal district assembly status to become Sagnarigu Municipal District. The municipality is located in the northwest part of Northern Region and has

Sagnarigu Sagnarigu is a community and capital of Sagnarigu District in the Northern Region of Ghana. History Yakubu II Yaa Naa Yakubu Andani II (born 1945–2002) was the King of Kingdom of Dagbon, Dagbon, the traditional kingdom of the Dagomba peop ...

as its capital city (which is also the capital city of the Northern Region).

Mariam Iddrisu Mariam Iddrisu is the Mayor (Municipal Chief Executive) of Sagnarigu Municipality in Ghana's Northern Region. Education Mariam Iddrisu attended the Ghana Senior High School, in Tamale from 1997 to 1999. She was subsequently enrolled at the ...

is the Metropolitan Chief Executive of Sagnarigu Municipality in Ghana's Northern Region.

Communities

The communities includes: Sagnarigu Kpalsi Sanarigu Kukuo Gurugu Katariga Malishegu

References

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