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GOVERNMENT TARGETS AGRIC SECTOR AS MAJOR AVENUE FOR YOUTH EMPLOYMENT BY PETER ATOGEWE WEDAM                                   September 04, 2012 AG.PRO-UE/RCC The Upper East Regional Minister, Mr. Mark Owen Woyongo has announced that, government’s Better Ghana Agenda which is reflected in national development planning has identified Agriculture as one of the focal socio-economic areas to be promoted for sustainable development. He emphasized that the Medium – Term National Development Framework which is contained in the national development plan and titled “Ghana Shared Growth and Development Agenda (GSGDA) 2O1O – 2013”, devotes its chapter four to Accelerated Agricultural Modernisation and Sustainable Natural Resource Management. Mr. Woyongo made the announcement in a keynote address read for him by his Deputy, Mrs. Lucy Awuni at the 24 th Annual General Conference of the Agricultural ...

MULTIPURPOSE DAM TO BE CONSTRUCTED ON WHITE VOLTA      24thAugust, 2012 BY PETER ATOGEWE WEDAM AG.PRO-UE/RCC The Upper East Regional, Mr. Mark Owen Woyongo has disclosed that the Government of Ghana has put in place arrangements for the construction of a multi-purpose dam on the White Volta at Pwalugu in the Upper East region. On the estimated completion of the project in 2019, the dam would generate electricity and irrigate over 100,000 hectares of land to the benefit of people in the Upper East and Northern Regions of the country.  Hon. Mark Owen Woyongo - Upper East Regional Minister making a contribution at the meeting Mr. Woyongo who gave the disclosure at the second general assembly meeting of the White Volta basin Transboundary Committee on Water Resources Management [WVBTCWRM] at Tenkodogo in Burkina Faso, noted that the timely execution of the multipurpose dam project will also curtail the periodic devastation caused to his region as a resul...

INTERNAL AUDITORS CAUTIONED AGAINST CONDONNING FINANCIAL MISMANAGEMNET BY PETER ATOGEWE WEDAM AG.PRO-UE/RCC The Upper East Regional Minister, Mr. Mark Owen Woyongo has made a passionate appeal to internal auditors of the Ghana Education Service [GES] to eschew the tendency of condoning and conniving with management to dissipate public funds stressing that as “ Internal Auditors, you must always ensure that government has value for money”. The Regional Minister made the appeal in a keynote address at the 8 th Annual Conference of the internal auditors association of the GES held at Bolgatanga in the Upper East region of Ghana. He further admonished the internal auditors to promote the ethical culture of the auditing profession by ensuring integrity, objectivity, confidentiality and showing competence in the execution of their mandate as auditors. He noted that integrity establishes trust which forms the basis for reliance on the judgment of auditors. Since the form...

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ROTARY INT.TO HELP BUILD PEACE                                                    June 22, 2012 BY PETER ATOGEWE WEDAM AG.PRO-UE/RCC An international non-governmental development oriented organization, Rotary International, has pledged to work closely with government and other organizations to ensure peace and stability in the Upper East Region during this year’s electioneering campaigns and beyond. The President of the Bolgatanga Goodwill club of Rotary International, Pastor Emmanuel Atia, made the pledge on the behalf of Rotary International at Bolgatanga during a ceremony to officially outdoor the Bolgatanga Rotary club and also, present it with a charter to complete its admission into Rotary International since it was accepted on 17 th August, 2011. Rotary International which operates in over 200 cou...

PRESS RELEASE SIX DISTRICTS IN UPPER EAST TO BENEFIT FROM JAPANESE GRANT Six of the nine districts in the Upper East Region will from September this year start benefiting from a three million US dollars grant from the Japanese Social Development Fund (JSDF). The grant which will be piloted over a three year period as an income generation intervention will complement the World Bank’s funded Ghana Social Opportunities Project (GSOP). The Bongo District, Talensi-Nabdam, Builsa, Bawku West, Kassena-Nankana West and Garu-Tempane districts have been selected to benefit from the JSDF whose funds will go directly to support the poorest of the poor in the respective districts. The Deputy Upper East Regional Minister, Mrs. Lucy Awuni who chaired a meeting attended by the project consultants from the World Bank, the National Board for Small Scale Industries [NBSSI], the District Chief Executives [DCEs] from beneficiary districts and other stakeholders, tasked the DCEs to put in place desk o...