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

The incumbent Member of Parliament [MP] for the Bongo Constituency in the Upper East Region, Hon. Edward Abambire Bawa, has retained the seat for yet another four-year term to represent the people of Bongo in Ghana’s Parliament. It will be indeed, his second term in the Ghanaian Legislature. Bongo DCE [1st] & Hon. Bawa [3rd] at Bongo Assembly Inauguration Jan,2020 Hon. Bawa came tops after gaining the highest number of valid votes cast beating some three other contestants. He polled 26,268 votes representing 58.50 per cent of valid votes cast whilst his closest contender, Bongo District Chief   Executive [DCE], Hon. Peter Ayinbisa Ayamga, who was the New Patriotic Party’s [NPP] Parliamentary Candidate with 17,276 votes, indicating a percentage of 38.48. The other candidates were Hon. George A. Afari who contested on the ticket of the Progressive People’s Party [PPP] gained 1,548 votes being 3.44 percent of valid votes cast and Hon. Richard Akaamah, the candidate for the ...

  The Events and Programmes Department of the famous and plush A.A Country Side Hotel in Paga, is set and ready to treat patrons, lovers of great live musical performances and the general public to a night of unforgettable entertainment come 24 th December, 2020.   Two of the Upper East Region’s finest crop of musicians in the contemporary Kassena-Nankana music industry are billed to serve music lovers the best dose of best-selling songs live on stage back-to-back on the eve of Christmas Day under the event dubbed “CHRISTMAS EVE LIVE MUSICAL CONCERT”. The young and evergreen Anthony Zunga, affectionately known and called by many as Holy Bird or the King of Kassena-Nankana Music, will be rocking the stage on the 24 th night   of this December, 2020 with elcetrifying performances of his hot singles including the latest – “ Nabiina Korri Chira Ba Dwoi We ”, “ Vangi Si Ku Di ” , “ Wiira Di Torna ” amongst a host of the others you are all familiar with. Meanwhile from U...

The 2020 general elections of Ghana have been set in motion with the successful conduct of the very first round of voting undertaken by the Electoral Commission [EC] of Ghana. This first-round ballot casting is usually referred to as the Special Voting. As a consequence, the Special Voting in the Bongo Constituency of the Upper East Region like elsewhere across Ghana, took place successfully in Bongo on Tuesday 1 st December, 2020 without any incident. The expected number of voters as per records at the District's Electoral Office totaled 739 but on the day of the poll, only 699 of the number turned up and voted. The implication is that, some 40 of the persons who had earlier submitted their details as special voters, failed to show up at the poll. The Special Voting the EC explained in parts, is always conducted for mainly the country's security personnel who will be deployed for duties on election day as well as any other persons who will be unable to present themselves to ...

The delivery of health care services, especially primary health care in the Kumbogsigo community, a suburb of the Bolgatanga East District in the Upper East Region, has received a boost following a donation of assorted medical equipment to health authorities in the area. The Medical Equipment as displayed at the durbar Chairman of the Kumbogsigo Development Association, Commissioner of Police C.O.P Mr. Patrick Atampubire Akologo made the donation on behalf of his colleagues over the weekend at the celebration of the annual Anongkua Festival by the chiefs and people of the Kumbogsigo community. The festival is a yearly traditional gathering at which, the chiefs and people celebrate in thanks-giving to their gods and ancestors for the bountiful harvest of the previous year. During the celebrations, the traditional leadership also solicits and raise funds for the execution of various development projects across the community. C.O.P Akolgo revealed that the package, made up of delivery b...

Vice President of the Republic of Ghana and the Running Mate to President Nana Addo of the New Patriotic Party [NPP] in the 2020 general elections, H.E Dr. Alhaji Mahamudu Bawumia has terminated his campaigns in the Upper East Region following the demise of Ghana’s Ex-President, Jerry John Rawlings. Dr. Bawumia Speaking at the Bongo Durbar     Dr. Bawumia formally announced this termination at Zuarungu in the Bolgatanga East District of the region around 15:47 GMT at which time himself and his entourage had arrived there to address a durbar of the Chiefs and people of the area on the last leg of his three-day campaign tour of the region. He had earlier in the day, addressed similar durbars in Bongo in the Bongo District and in Sakote in the Nabdam district. He told the gathering that President Nana Addo had issued an official statement on the ex-president’s passing in which he declared seven days of national mourning in memory of late J.J Rawlings and the subsequent suspen...

  The Vice President of the Republic, H.E Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has started a three-day campaign tour of the Upper East Region with a passionate call on the chiefs and people as well as electorates, to vote massively for the governing New Patriotic Party [NPP] stressing that, the party had a better development record than immediate past-regime. He disclosed that the government had so far undertaken a total of 1,488 projects across the sectors in Upper East region with as many as, 688 of them completed. Dr. Bawumia at the Mirigu durbar   Speaking during a courtesy call on the Paramount Chief of Sirigu in the Kassena-Nankana West District where the day’s tour began, Dr. Bawumia noted that the North of Ghana had lagged behind in development for long, the reason the Nana Addo-led government had implemented several targeted policies in the almost-four years of its administration, geared at creating jobs and lifting the citizenry out of poverty. He cited a number of policies and inte...

  About 61,000 farmers have been supplied with 78 thousand cashew seedlings under the climate change component of the Ghana Productive Safety Net Programme in the Bongo District of the Upper East Region. The project, being implemented by the Department of Agriculture aims at strengthening safety net systems for extremely poor households as well as mitigating the negative impact of climate change, creating employment for the rural masses and providing the necessary raw materials for the 1-District 1-Factory initiative. Hon. Ayinbisa [DCE] speaking at the event   The Bongo District Chief Executive [DCE], Hon. Peter Ayinbisa Ayamga who made these disclosures in his keynote address at the 36th National Farmers’ Day celebration, also observed that the agricultural sector will be more resilient if the full potential of the annual dry season period is harnessed effectively to ensure an all-year round farming scheme.   He further indicated that, four dams of appreciable capacitie...