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TRADE INFORMATION CENTRES OPENED AT PAGA-BURKINA BORDERS
TRADE INFORMATION CENTRES OPENED AT PAGA-BURKINA BORDERS BY PETER ATOGEWE WEDAM Fri - Sept. 28, 2012 AG.PRO-UE/RCC The Ghana Shippers Authority [GSA] which represents the interests of exporters and importers in Ghana has in collaboration with the United States Agency for International Development [USAID] and the West Africa Trade Hub opened border information centres at Paga and Dakola border entry points Ghana and Burkina Faso respectively. These border information centres will offer ready information on trade to shippers and cross border traders in order to enhance trade between the two countries. In a press release issued by the GSA at a ceremony at Dakola to officially open the information centres, the GSA disclosed that the objective of setting up the centres at each side of the border is to make a...
GOVERNMENT TARGETS AGRIC SECTOR AS MAJOR AVENUE FOR YOUTH EMPLOYMENT
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
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
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...