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

Some four basic schools in the Bolgatanga East District of the Upper East Region, have all together received a total of 180 dual desks from the Assembly at a brief presentation ceremony this Tuesday morning, held at the forecourt of the District Assembly’s offices. The schools included the T.I Ahmadiyya, the Zuarungu Moshi, the Nimolgo and the Grace Preparatory Primary schools.  Hon. Abole Making his Remarks   Acting District Chief Executive [DCE] Hon. Emmanuel Abugre Abole in his remarks said, the presentation formed part of efforts by the Assembly to make pupils comfortable in the teaching and learning environment. He disclosed that the package was funded by the Ministry of Education and gave the distribution breakdown as follows; T.I Ahmadiyya got 80 sets of the dual desks, Zuarungu Moshi received 60 pieces, Grace Preparatory had 38 of them and 22 were given to the Nimolgo primary school. He observed that the issue of inadequate furniture had always been a pressing matter...

  The Local Government and Rural Development Committee of Ghana’s Parliament has commended the Acting District Chief Executive [DCE] for the Bolgatanga East District in the Upper East Region, Hon. Emmanuel Abugre Abole for his proactive interventions and his alertness in ensuring value-for-money on the almost-completed new assembly block complex. C'ttee Members Pose With DCE & His Staff The Member of Parliament [MP] for Banda, Hon. Ahmed Ibrahim who is the First Deputy Whip of the Minority Caucus in Parliament and a member of the Committee’s delegation, praised the DCE after the delegation received a briefing on work done so far on the project and what was outstanding. He noted that the DCE was up-to-date with information and other pertinent details about the project unlike other districts the delegation had already visited, where his colleague DECs knew almost nothing about projects ongoing in their own districts. The MP noted that whenever matters of national development ...

Reverend Father Emmanuel Acheampong of the Navrongo-Bolgatanga Diocese of the Catholic Church, has made an urgent appeal to the Parliament of Ghana to enact a law that will set strict standards and guidelines for the broadcast of religious content on the country’s television and radio networks to stem what he termed “the misleading of God’s people and the perpetual presentation of shortcuts to wealth making through ritual undertakings”. Rev. Fr. Acheampong Father Acheampong who was preaching the sermon at the burial service for the late Deputy Clerk of Parliament, Mr. Robert Ageya Apodolla at the Basilica in Navrongo this Saturday, delivered his appeal directly through the Honourable Speaker of Parliament, Rt. Hon. Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin who was personally seated at the service. The top brass of Parliament including the Minority Leader, Hon. Haruna Iddrisu, a good delegation of Members of Parliament and the staff of the Parliamentary Service were all in attendance. Past minist...

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...