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

A three-day sanitation and business expo under the auspices of the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development [MLGRD], UNICEF and the Kassena-Nankana West District [KNWD] among other partners, is underway in the district’s capital, Paga. The Canadian Government is a major funding source to the expo and its related sanitation and hygiene interventions across communities in the area. A Section of Participants at Expo The Expo will among other objectives, enhance the skills and capabilities of latrine artisans and Community Technical Volunteers [CTVs] to deliver efficiently on mass construction orders for latrines as well as to be able, to construct innovative household latrines that were easy and comfortable to use. The participants will also be schooled on how to sort the best available sanitation products and services on the market, all forming parts of efforts geared at ending open defecation in the district. Kassena-Nankana West District Chef Executive [DCE], Hon. G...

Several hundreds of soya bean farmers in the Kunkua community of the Bongo District in the Upper East region, are benefiting from an agric- research intervention programme dubbed “Rhizobium Inoculum Technology Project”. The project is the brain-child of a research conducted by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research [CSIR] and its affiliate, the Savannah Agriculture Research Institute [SARI] in conjunction with some partners from the United States’ North Carolina Agriculture and Technical University. That research was christened; “ Using Rhizobium Inoculants and Best Production Practices to Propel the Ghanaian Soybean Value Chain for Accelerated Poverty Reduction ”. A SARI Senior Research Scientist, Dr. Issah Sugri on Wednesday, led a team of their US partners to the project experimental farms at Kunkua for interactions with beneficiary farmers as well as to have a hands-on feel as to how the intervention was running in the area. He told the farmers and the US team th...

A day’s meeting to deliberate on how to curtail the recent students’ riots on a number of Senior High/Technical School campuses as well as instituting measures to forestall any future occurrences has ended in Bolgatanga. The Upper East Regional Minister, Hon. Paulina Patience Abayage called and presided over the meeting following these ugly pieces of incidence in as many as eight schools across the region with at least, one leading to the death of a student at the Sandema Senior High Technical School about   a week ago. Also fresh on their minds of the region’s people, was the latest riots at Kongo Senior High that took a tribal dimension and police personnel had to be called in to control the situation and the school, since closed down.  Reg. Minister, Hon. P. Abayage giving her views at the meeting Heads of all second cycle schools region-wide, attended the meeting and actively participated in the deliberations proposing several ideas to mitigate the fast-creep...

The Regional Minister for Ghana’s Upper East Region, Hon. Paulina Patience Abayage on Tuesday afternoon, presented three boxes of medicated spectacles to the University for Development Studies [UDS] Hospital in Navrongo, capital of the Kassena-Nankana Municipality. Hon. Paulina Abayage [UE/RM] Presenting the package At a brief gathering to formally present the package to authorities of the hospital, Hon. Abayage disclosed that the boxes contained a total of 1,500 pieces of the medicated spectacles as well as other eye glasses that are usually worn after surgeries to prevent infection and other impurities from settling on the healing eyes.  She disclosed that the package was made possible through the benevolence of the Lions Club in Torino, Italy and sent to her through Ghana’s Honorary Consul to Torino, Mr. Salvatore De Fazio. She described both the Lions Club and the Honorary Consul as good friends she had made during her duty as Ghana’s Ambassador to Italy and expressed...

The Local Governance Network [LOGNet], an umbrella body of Civil Society Organisations [CSOs] in Ghana has commenced nationwide stakeholders’ fora to create the needed awareness for the general public’s buy-in and full active participation in the pending District Level Elections [DLE] and Referendum to be held towards the end of this year. The maiden forum was therefore held in the Northern Regional capital, Tamale this Tuesday on the theme “Improving Stakeholders’ Understanding for Informed Decision Making at Forthcoming Referendum”. Critical participants at the forum came from the Upper East, Upper West and Northern regions and included traditional rulers, executives of CSOs , security personnel, religious leaders, executives of the Ghana Federation of Disability Organisations and representatives from political parties amongst others. A section of the participants   LOGNet is scheduled to hold similar engagement interface meetings with other stakeholders in the nati...

Two newly constructed health facilities valued at 356,000 Ghana Cedis, have been handed over to the Bongo District Directorate of the Ghana Health Service for immediate commencement of community health service delivery and occupation by staff of the service. Speaking at two separate handing over ceremonies held at Sanabiisi and Namoo on Friday, Bongo District Chief Executive [DCE] Hon. Peter Ayinbisa Ayamga disclosed that the former’s facility was a Community Health Planning Services [CHPS] project executed with funds from the 2018 share of the District Assemblies’ Common Fund while the latter had a maternity block, funded by the District Development Facility. He added that, while it cost government 226,000 Ghana Cedis to construct the CHPS facility, the Namoo Maternity Block cost 130,000 Ghana Cedis to build. The Sanabiisi CHPS facility Hon. Ayamga further disclosed that, the CHPS facility in Sanabiisi has a five-room capacity and a waiting area for clients and fitted w...

The Bongo District Assembly in the Upper East Region on Monday, disbursed a total of 47,112 Ghana Cedis to some 64 Persons With Disabilities [PWDs] selected from across the district. The amount came from the three percent [3%] allotment in the District Assemblies’ Common Fund that is set aside to help improve the lives of PWDs to enable them become active players in main stream society. This finds its foundation in Ghana’s Disability Act, 2006 – Act 715. In his welcome remarks at the presentation ceremony, the District Director of Social Welfare and Community Development [SW-CD] Mr. John Azam, disclosed that GHc35,682.00 was disbursed to 25 beneficiaries in aid of income generation activities while educational support got a GHc3,158.00 allocation covering five recipients. He added that, apprenticeship trainees also received GHc3,512.00 and those that required assistance to seek medical services got GHc4,250.00 of the amount. Mr. John Azam, Dist. Director - SW & CD speaking a...