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

A teacher of the Naaga Primary School in the Kassena-Nankana Municipality of Upper East Region Mr. Desmond A. Kampoe, has donated 81 dual desks to the school following a social media campaign he launched and pursued passionately over the past few weeks. The teacher in question, is known for holding special feelings and caring for his pupils and most often, provides them assistance that your regular everyday teacher will not bother himself with. Mr. Kampoe [Right] making the donation   At a brief ceremony to hand over the furniture, Mr. Kampoe acknowledged some two groups namely Mr. Abel Sellah & friends and the Technology Without borders group [TWC GROUP] whom he disclosed, responded to his SOS appeals and subsequently, funded the supply of 30 and 51 dual desks respectively. He also expressed gratitude to his friends he didn’t immediately name, for their efforts in transporting the furniture from Tamale to the school's premises. The education directorate’s Circuit Superviso...

 BY: PETER ATOGEWE WEDAM BACS221243 [GIJ] A new political party that is bound to change Ghana’s political landscape positively and to brighten the country’s development fortunes, the Great Renaissance Party [GRP] has been duly launched this Monday evening.The party has a very re-assuring motto - " Renewed For Development ". The official launch of the party which started at approximately 19:45 GMT was done virtually from the party’s headquarters at North Dzorwulu – Accra owing to the prevailing COVID19 directives on public gatherings. Nonetheless, the historic event had a massive e-attendance and active participation as the party’s Executive Committee Members, its rank and file as well as the general public hooked up and stayed on the Zoom link which was widely advertised by party members days leading to the D-day. After his formal outdooring as the Flag-bearer of the GRP, Mr. Vincent Amedzake was grateful for the honour done him and urged the Ghanaian electorate to trust t...

A frontline local governance-centered Non-Governmental Organisation [NGO] based in the Upper East Regional capital of Bolgatanga, TEERE has commended the President, H.E Nana Addo-Dankwa Akufo-Addo for his bold decision announced about a fortnight ago bringing to an end, the decades old political appointments portfolio of Deputy Regional Ministers. The commendation was contained in a Press Release signed by the Deputy Chief Executive Officer [CEO] of TEERE, Mr. Maxwell Banu and issued on Monday, 1 st February, 2021. Dep. CEO, Mr. Banu at a Forum   The Release stated in parts that, the bold decision as may be widely known by now, forms part of efforts geared at reducing the hitherto, huge size of government seen since 2017 with the coming into office of the Nana Addo-led administration. It was therefore a big relief to the Ghanaian tax payer and political analysts as well as other stakeholders such as TEERE, when the Presidency through a Press Statement on January 21, 2021, announce...

  Some schools in the Bolgatanga East District of the Upper East Region are yet to receive the full complement of Personal Protective Equipment [PPEs] particularly, nose masks and liquid soap since schools formally re-opened a little over a week ago on Monday, 18 th January, 2021.  The GES Director, Mr. George Asira   This is resultant from transportation challenges and some form of ambiguity in the allocation procedures between the Bolgatanga Municipal Education Directorate and the Bolgatanga East District Education Directorate as the latter was curved out of the former a few years ago but yet seem not to be fully autonomous. In an interview the Information Services Department [ISD] had with the Bolgatanga East District Director of Education, Mr. George Asira this Wednesday morning, it came to light that there were some administrative bottlenecks regarding the full decoupling of the Bolgatanga East G.E.S from its mother-district [Bolgatanga Municipal] and thus on a nu...

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 ...