Journalistic Works - News Articles, Features And More of P. ATOGEWE WEDAM

NOTRE DAME MINOR SEMINARY SENIOR HIGH – NAVRONGO CLASS OF 2000 - START WITH A DREAM, END WITH A FUTURE EMERALD CLASS ABALANSAH Kennedy – computer man ABIIRO Emmanuel – u.s man ABOYELLA Jacob – ABUGBILLA A. Isaac – zekman ADAAWEN Stephen – i dey like i no dey ADIVILA Matthew -villasco AFULANI Francis AGAMBIRE Charles AKERIWE Jerome – tarkum-takess AKOLGO Gideon – wakiki ABUGRE A. John – ceo ALATIIGA A. Abraham ALIA A. Caswel – buju banton ALIGRAH Lambert – sky mafia AMOYA A. Charles ANI A. Rexford – sexy rexy APURI Augustine ASAMPAMBILA Oliver ASEGIBILA Elvis ASSINA A. Gordon – madman ATARAH A. Bede AWANDARE Jerome AWUBAYIGANI Sampson – tophten mutsuu AWUNI A. Joshua AYE-ANINE Guggisberg – lord kenya AYIDIYA Eric – zasco dj AYIM Mark AYUUNI N. Stephen – ziggla BALABGUMYETIME B. Reinfred BOAR Y. Elias DOABIL Louis DOMAH Frank KADINGIDI Ariel-Sharon – pariselis KAMBE McJonas – popular KUZANGBANA Martin – opeele LAGEDAM Aaron – patua MORT King...

Take a surf through the length and breadth of Ghana and it will amaze you the number of uncompleted projects dotted in almost all districts. These uncompleted projects usually range from social amenities to office buildings carried out by government’s decentralized departments and sometimes also undertaken by politicians. Prior to election 2004, some new Ghana Telecom [GT] booths numbering about 15 were dotted all over the Navrongo township. T his intervention, I believe was to increase public access to telephoning facilities. The people of Navrongo had every cause to be elated at this move because should it be completed, one only needed to walk a little distance to access a telephone facility. It is however worrying to note that since October 2004, these phone booths are still standing empty without the telephone fixed in them. Example is the booths positioned just in front of cinema palace. I believe these GT phone booths are not ornaments designed to beautify the Navrongo township b...

I have for long time observed that photojournalists with the audio-visual media known to the layman as cameramen have been contributing a great deal of details to television news items. Notwithstanding the wait of the cameras that these camera carry on their shoulders, credit for the TV news story is always only to the reporter but I sincerely believe that the photojournalist also deserve credit their photos or video clip. As a communication scholar, I appreciate the importance of a photo or pix to a news story. Photos give authenticity to the story, carrying the viewer to places where he or she usually would not go and giving life to the news story by featuring speakers at a function. I must also use this opportunity to congratulate the print media on always giving credit to the photojournalist whose photos make the news item much more authentic. I wish to appeal to the TV stations namely, GTV, Metro TV, TV Africa, TV3 and etc to start allocating credit lines to photojournalist just t...

Many Ghanaian movies seem to glorify occultism otherwise known as “juju”. I have observed with grave worry that is rather an unfortunate trend taken by movie makers in Ghana. We must be guided by the fact that a wrong thing or attitude does not become right in any way simply because many people are holding on to it. This goes to say that the fact that Nigerian films are loaded with too many “juju” scenes but are still highly patronized does not give impetus to Ghanaian movie makers to copy blindly that bad example. Film makers in Ghana must always remember the cognitive role of the mass media and their peculiar role in transmitting values. People learn live styles and attitudes from media content. What assurance can therefore be given that viewers will not be inclined to practice occultism or “juju” as frequently portrayed in recent Ghanaian films? Over the past years, various players in the Ghanaian film industry have received diverse condemnations from the public and other stakeholde...

FEATURE BY _ PETER ATOGEWE WEDAM, ISD GAMBAGA Roads many will agree are an integral part of the development process of communities and districts. Roads to a large extent, help in poverty alleviation among the populace especially in rural Ghana. But this cannot be said of the Walewale-Gambaga road in the Northern region. A number of people in the East Mamaprusi District, EMD of this region notwithstanding have lauded government for its efforts at linking the district to the rest of Ghana via road network. Nevertheless, others in the district including other nonresident users of the road linking the West Mamprusi district and the EMD have expressed various concerns about the deteriorating state of the road in question. The road which is about 48 Kilometres is no doubt a busy commercial route connecting some districts of the Northern Region to the Upper East Region and the Republic of Togo through Nakpanduri in the Bunkprugu-Yunyoo district. Indeed, not a minute passes without vehicles...

BY PETER ATOGEWE WEDAM, ISD GAMBAGGA The overlord of the Mamprugu traditional area, Nayiri Naa Bohagu Mahami Abudulai Sheriga II has paid a historic familiarization visit to the Baptist Medical Centre, BMC at Nalerigu in the East Mamprusi district, Northern region. It was the first official visit of the Nayiri to the BMC since his enskinment some four years ago. The visit gave the Nayiri the opportunity to learn at first hand the activities and operations of the medical centre. Naa Bohagu in a meeting with top management of the BMC on his arrival said it had been his wish over the past few years to visit the hospital and was happy that he finally did. He told management that it is the responsibility of God to give lives whilst that of the BMC is to save these lives. He commended management saying the hospital has done remarkably well in its responsibility in saving lives. The Medical Superintendent of the BMC, Dr. George Faile Junior III on behalf of management and staff welcomed the N...

FEATURE_ It has been the mandate of the information Services Department ISD, which is a facet of the Ministry of Information and National Orientation to create awareness on government policies and programmes especially at the grassroots. Indeed, the mission statement of the ISD says that the Information Services Department exists to create awareness on government policies, programmes and activities; promoting Ghana’s international marketing agenda, providing public relations support to other ministries, departments and agencies and submitting feedback reports from the public to government. It is worthy to note that the ISD has over the years responded to the needs of the public and successive governments with dispatch, dedication and professionalism. What the ISD has failed to do in my view over the years is that, it has done little in the area of creating awareness for its own website which publishes most of the truthful realities from the country side and covers issues from the negle...

A meeting has been held under the auspices of the District Health Management Team, DHMT at Gambaga in the East Mamprusi District to launch an HIV/AIDS campaign christened “Know – your – status”. In her welcome address, a Deputy Director of Nursing Madam Paulina Manlokiya said it is beneficial for one to know his/her HIV status for through data collected based on VCT records, government will be able to adequately provide for the drug needs of HIV/AIDS patients. Madam Manlokiya said the “know – your – status “ campaign will go a long way to stem the spread of HIV/AIDS after the VCT sessions because it is hoped that people will change their sexual lives positively. The head of the BMC Public Health Department, Mrs. Florence Baba told participants at the meeting that the “know – your – status” campaign was a national programme by government through the Ghana Health Service for planning purposes and necessary actions to be taken to check the alarming spread of HIV/AIDS. Mrs. Baba said all ...

04/09/08 A nursing training school is to be established in the East Mamprusi district of the Northern region before the end of 2008. The school will train nurses for deployment to the Baptist Medical Centre, BMC at Nalerigu and other health facilities in the region. This was disclosed by the DCE of the East Mamprusi district, Honourable Peter Baga Wuni in an address he delivered to launch the golden jubilee of the BMC at Nalerigu under the theme- “50 years of dedicated health service: demonstrating God’s love”. Honourable Wuni noted that people all over the world including clients from Burkina Faso and Togo have benefited from the services of the BMC and commended the hospital for coming this far. The DCE agreed that the hospital is confronted with many problems and said government has taken measures to address these problems. He said for instance, government has been posting nurses directly from the country’s nursing schools to the BMC to augment the staff strength of the hospital. H...

The East Mamprusi District Disaster Management Committee has been reactivated to tackle any unforeseen mishaps there may accompany this year’s rains and spillage of excess water from the Bagre dam in Burkina Faso. At a brief meeting in Gambaga to reactivate the committee, the East Mamprusi District Coordinating Director, Mr. Alhassan M. Abukari said there was the urgent to have an effective disaster mechanism in place that would respond rapidly in times of any disaster owing to the fact that some communities in the district were hit very hard during last year’s floods in the north. The district director of the national disaster management organization, NADMO, Mr. Mejida Mohammed disclosed that his outfit has already sent a caution message round communities situated in flood –prone areas and expressed hope that people will heed the message and take the necessary precautionary measures. Mr. Mejida said his office has so far received a few reports about farms being submerged in ...

An amount of GH c42000 was disbursed in 2006 to the National Youth Employment Programme, NYEP secretariat in the East Mamprusi district for the payment of allowances to the programme’s beneficiaries. The ministry of youth and employment during the first half of the year contracted some selected banks nationwide which now handle the payments of the NYEP employees with dispatch. The East Mamprusi district coordinator of the NYEP, Mr. Seidu Salifu disclosed this to the Information Services Department in an interview at Gambaga in the Northern region. According to Mr. Salifu, the NYEP started in the district in 2006 with only three modules including agribusiness, community teaching assistant and sanitation and waste management modules. At present, the NYEP has five operational modules in the district with the addition of the health extension assistants’ module and the paid internship module. Mr.Salifu disclosed that 250 farmers were engaged under the agribusiness module of the programme be...

An amount of GH c42000 was disbursed in 2006 to the National Youth Employment Programme, NYEP secretariat in the East Mamprusi district for the payment of allowances to the programme’s beneficiaries. The ministry of youth and employment during the first half of the year contracted some selected banks nationwide which now handle the payments of the NYEP employees with dispatch. The East Mamprusi district coordinator of the NYEP, Mr. Seidu Salifu disclosed this to the Information Services Department in an interview at Gambaga in the Northern region. According to Mr. Salifu, the NYEP started in the district in 2006 with only three modules including agribusiness, community teaching assistant and sanitation and waste management modules. At present, the NYEP has five operational modules in the district with the addition of the health extension assistants’ module and the paid internship module. Mr.Salifu disclosed that 250 farmers were engaged under the agribusiness module of the programme be...