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The Paga district hospital, located at the centre of the Kassena-Nankana West District is the reigning best district hospital in the Upper East Region, for the year 2023. The regional health authorities settled on the hospital after rigorous indicators and measurement tools were applied to similar hospitals across all the 15 administrative districts in the Upper East Region. A Section Participants at the Review Authorities of the district’s directorate of health services made this disclosure during presentations at the half-year performance review meeting held this Wednesday in Paga under the theme; “Implementation of the Network of Practice (NoP) in the Kassena-Nankana West District; the Role of Stakeholders”. All nine (9) sub-districts under the district health directorate made presentations on the work of their facilities from January to midyear 2024; including their success stories, challenges and the way forward. District Director of Health Services, Mr. Alshassan Lawal who se...

  A police-community dialogue session to help build trust and cooperation between the two parties has taken place in Kajelo in the Kassena-Nankana West District of the Upper East Region.   The dialogue meeting held this Wednesday afternoon at the Baloo Junior High School park, formed part of efforts by the National Commission for Civic Education [NCCE] in engaging communities nationwide in the prevention and containment of violent extremism.  A Section of The Community Members The intervention, dubbed Preventing And Containing Violent Extremism [PCVE] is under the sponsorship of the European Union and is being implemented by all metropolitan, municipal and district NCCE offices in Ghana. The Kajelo dialogue had a total of six communities in attendance. They included Kayilo, Biba, Baloo, Navem, Batiu and Nabio. In his welcome address to start the day’s proceedings, the District Director of the NCCE, Mr. Robert Dampare observed that, violent extremism still poses a signi...

Basic schools from all circuits in the Kassena-Nankana West District of the Upper East Region this Wednesday, converged in Paga, the district’s capital, to battle it out for honours in a reading festival hosted by the district directorate of the Ghana Education Service (GES). A Section of The School Pupils The reading festival comes under an intervention programme by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Ghana’s Ministry of Education known as the USAID/Ghana Accountability in Ghana’s Education System (SAGES) Strengthening Activity and with support from partners including Care, AfriKids, Crown Agents and School for Life. In his remarks to open the festival this Wednesday dubbed, the District Level Public Primary Schools Reading Competition, Kassena-Nankana West DCE Hon. Gerard Ataogye described the exercise as very relevant to the upbringing of the pupils because “children are able to recognize the importance of expression when they read”. He added that ...

  The Kassena-Nankana West District Chief Executive (DCE) Hon. Gerard Ataogye, has underscored the need for farmers in the district’s jurisdiction to be wary of the impact of climate change and to accordingly, adapt to the changes that come with it in order to enjoy the fruit of their labour.  Hon. Ataogye Speaking @ The Training Hon. Ataogye who was addressing a day’s training session on climate change and adaptation for some 24 selected youth farmers from six clusters across the district noted that, climate change is the doing of humans and it will thus take the same humans to adapt to these changes or risk losing out on many endeavours that have everything to do with the environment and ecosystem, such as the conduct of farming activities. The training held in the district’s capital, Paga this Tuesday, was organized by the National Youth Authority (NYA) and targeted mainly, the district’s youth who have invested their time and resources into the agric economy of the distr...

  Stakeholders involved in the selection of beneficiary farmers, the distribution of farm inputs and the actual implementation of the Planting for Food and Jobs Phase Two (PFJ II) have been cautioned to eschew all forms of political tendencies in order for the intervention to make maximum impact and benefit Ghanaian farmers who are in real need of the subsidies for their trade. A Cross Section Participants The Kassena-Nankana West District (DCE), Hon. Gerard Ataogye who gave the caution during a day’s orientation meeting held in Paga for zonal coordinators and community agents under the PFJ II, warned that he would not hesitate to cause the revocation of the appointments of anyone found culpable in the implementation process. He emphasized, “the process to recruit the district aggregators and you, the zonal coordinators and others, was publicly advertised and not a politicized thing, so put away your political lenses and let this juicy project of the Government succeed”. Hon. A...

  The regional launch of a women’s voter mobilization project under the Political Accountability Activity funded by the United States Agency for International Development [USAID], has taken place in Navrongo in the Kassena-Nankana Municipality of the Upper East Region. Regional stakeholders and volunteers were also given orientation on the project, which will see several activities happen in all the 15 districts of the Upper East Region. Group Photo of Stakeholders The Centre for Social Mobilisation & Sustainable Development [CENSODEV], a Navrongo-based not-for-profit organization, is the implementer of the project and its authorities had to work through the International Republican Institute [IRI] to source the required funding from the USAID for the execution of the project. Giving an overview of the project at the launch, Executive Director of CENSODEV, Mr. Braimah Sanjage revealed that the project is intended to whip up interest of citizens especially, women, tribal mi...

A District Inter-Party Dialogue Committee [IPDC] under the auspices of the National Commission for Civic Education [NCCE], has been reconstituted and inaugurated this Thursday noon in Paga, capital of the Kassena-Nankana West District in the Upper East Region. The committee actually, already exists in the district but became dormant after the last general elections in 2020. The C'ttee Members ina Group Photo The IPDC has a membership of 40 with the number comprising political party representations, representatives of religious bodies, the security, some public service institutions and the media as well as representation from the Persons with Disabilities among others. Kassena-Nankana West District Director for the NCCE, Mr. Robert Dampare in his welcome and introductory remarks at the inauguration ceremony, stated that the Committee has very important and clearly spelt-out duties to execute; through the electioneering campaigns, to the elections and after to help ensure a free, f...