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

The Kassena-Nankana West District Chief Executive [DCE], Hon. Gerard Ataogye has given the strongest indication that a permanent fix would be found in due course for the collapsed steel bridge over the Gugura River in the Navio enclave of the district. It would be recalled that the said bridge caved in on March 24, 2022 as a heavy haulage truck made an attempt to drive through. The collapsed bridge has since brought untold hardships on citizens in the area relating to mobility challenges, carting of goods in and out of the area and also, cutting off other connecting communities as well as public servants and business men and women who ply their trade along that route. This same route also connects up with parts of neighbouring Burkina Faso. But in an interview with the District ISD office on Tuesday regarding the Assembly’s relocation to the new office block in Paga-Zenga, off the Paga-Navio road, the District Chief Executive [DCE] the used opportunity to state that, himself and th...

The High Command of the Ghana Armed Forces [GAF] has refuted wide allegations held by residents of Ashaiman in the Greater Accra Region and many other members of the public that the army's swoop on this Tuesday dawn of March 7, 2023 was a direct retaliation of brutality on people in the enclave following the murder of a military officer on the wee hours of 4th March, 2023.   Late Trooper Imoro In a one-page press release dated 7th March, 2023 authored and signed by the Director General of Public Relations Brigadier General E. Aggrey-Quarshie, stated categorically that the operation was sanctioned by the GAF to "fish out the perpetrators of the heinous crime" and that "following the operations at Asahaiman-Taifa and Tulaku, the military personnel picked up about 184 suspects aged between 21 and 47 years old and have handed them over to the Military Police and subsequently to be sent to the Ghana Police Service for screening and for further action". This official ...

Minister for Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation ( MESTI) Dr. Kwaku Afriyie (MP) has inaugurated the governing board of the Nuclear Regulatory Authority (NRA) today ,Wednesday, 12th October 2022. The seven (7) member board comprising five (5) males and two (2) females is chaired by Professor Elizabeth Aba Bentil Andam. Other members are Col. Tim Ba-taa-Banah, Prof. Isabella A. Quakyi, Mr. Daniel A.N.N Adumuah, Mr. Ebenezer Appiah-Sampong, Prof. Edward H.K Akaho and Dr. Nii K. Allotey.  Board Members [Left, Standing] MESTI Minister, Dr. Afriyie observed that over the years, the public has been holding certain myths about nuclear energy adding that there was an urgent need to educate the public so as to dispel such wrong notions. “ The ever-growing need for energy to power industries, educational institutions and domestic residences sends strong signals that, the right time had arrived for the country to strategically fuse nuclear energy in its energy generation mix”, he ...

Ghanaian caterers and other players in the food and beverage industry have been called upon to become ardent ambassadors and change agents in the country’s fight against plastic pollution as the menace has very dire consequences for both today’s generation and those coming after.   Dr. Afriyie delivering his address The Minister for Environment, Science, Technology, and Innovation (MESTI) Dr. Kwaku Afriyie, made the call in his address to the caterers’ association in Accra yesterday at a meeting called by his office to brainstorm with the group, on plastic waste management and the way forward. He noted that a vast majority of food vendors, eateries and chop bars not excluding some restaurants, often packaged food in plastic bags which then get discarded indiscriminately after meals are consumed causing huge pollution across the country, especially in big cities like Accra. He therefore charged the caterers to switch to other options of packing their services that were heal...