Jasikan District is located in the northern sector of Volta Region. The District has a total land area of 1.244.75 sq. km., representing about 6.8% of the fifteen districts in the Volta Region (18.093.27sq krn.). Jasikan, the district capital, lies 260 km North-East of Accra, the national capital. It is strategically located as it provides a good linkage between the South -Eastern part of the country to the Northern Region. The district is bordered on the east by the Republic of Togo, the north by Kedjebi District and the south by Hohoe District. The district capital is Jasikan.
More importantly, the district provides a warm welcome to friends and visitors to the district as well as those passing through to the Kadjebi, Nkwanta North, Nkwanta South, Krachi East, Krachi West Districts and into the Northern Region.
chief executive's message
The government in its bid to provide and improve upon the standard of living of the general citizenry has identified the gaps in human development, private sector growth and good governance and is embarking on initiatives and interventions that will address these gaps permanently.
Some of these steps are focused on the expansion of the school Feeding Programme, the National Youth Employment Programme and the total re-engineering and reshaping of the National Health Insurance Programme as promised in the manifesto of the NDC.< ... more »
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The Rural Enterprise Project has presented various items ranging from hair dryers, vulcanizing compressors, sewing machines, carpentry tools and wheel barrows to beneficiaries in the Kassena Nankana East District who have graduated from a skills training programme.
JASIKAN : Clarke calls for all-inclusive taskforce to combat cocoa smuggling Mr Liriah Sylvester Clarke, Former District Secretary of Jasikan, in the Volta Region, under the PNDC has urged cocoa farmers in the area to collaborate with the security agencies and district assembly to form a taskforce to combat cocoa smuggling to Togo.
JASIKAN: Teachers urged to aspire higher academically Mr Ford Henry Kamel, Deputy Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, has urged teachers to aspire higher academically, since the world has become highly competitive demanding value addition.
