World Vision Ghana will roll out an ambitious project in April to accelerate Ghana’s achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The project, dubbed “Transforming Household Resilience in Vulnerable Environments (THRIVE),” is envisioned to build secure and resilient livelihoods in the poorest communities in the Northern, Upper East, Upper West, and Savannah regions of Ghana.
Eliminating child labour in cocoa farms require new strategies
By: Francis Npong In Ghana’s cocoa-growing areas, there are still a lot of reported incidences of child labour. What could…
Can science assist in the development of a thriving agriculture sector that incorporates water resource management to keep up with population growth?
By: Francis Npong By 2050, the world’s population is expected to reach nine billion. This demands an increase in food…
Can irrigation and water management technologies accelerate cocoa production in the changing climate? The possibility!
Cocoa is one of the leading export commodities, backing and sustaining Ghana’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Together, cocoa, crude oil, and gold are three major export commodities that generate about 80% of Ghana’s export revenue.
What Lesson Does US Election Present to Ghanaian Voters?
Donald Trump is currently on the field playing golf while his legal team works and builds legal cases for legal…
The Plight of Mental Health Patients in Ghana
Story: Ayisha Abdulai (student Journalist-Olive School of Journalism) Ali Baba has been shackled for almost two months now. Sitting at…
Climate Tune: Hurricane Irma is a Big Thing
Climate change is a big thing. If you dont believe me ask the U.S. president, president Donald J. Trump and the citizens of…
Youth Call for Peace in Bimbilla
Bimbilla, the capital of Nanumba North District in the Northern Region of Ghana has been a center of chieftaincy dispute…
Platform for Women In Agriculture Established in Ghana
Agriculture is the main sector of Ghana’s economy that is contributing significantly to employment, income, food security, and household nutrition.…
Climate Change Programme Assembles Research Scientists, Development Practitioners to Make Climate Change Interventions Less Conflictive in Africa
By Francis Npong, Ghana In response to increasing climate variability, national governments, international organizations and NGOs are currently implementing new…
Ghana investing in Renewable
By: Francis Npong, Ghana. On December 2010, Ghana joined the league of Oil and gas producing nations. This was after…
GHANA: Beyond Paris Negotiation: Support Developing Nations to Adapt
In December 2015, the world will converge in Paris-France to discuss ways and means of salvaging our ailing planet. This…
Paramount Chief Chases Contractor over 1.4m Abandoned project
From: Francis Npong The Paramount Chief for Tatale Traditional Area Obore gariba Yankosor and his chiefs are trailing a contractor…
Shieni Iron Ore Innvestigation: Afenu’s Committee’s Report Will Be Tainted-CSOs
Ghana has been struggling hard to deal with corruption canker that has taken root in every sector of the economy.…
Climate Change Adaptation: New Improved Cassava Gives Hope to Rural Farmers in Ghana
Rural poor smallholder farmers in Ghana’s countryside have adopted new and improved cassava as part of climate change adaptation. The vitamin A cassava is a product of SARI and introduced to farmers by ALP
Ghana: Cycling for Necessity, Not Ecological Reasons
In Europe, cycling is promoted not only as a great way to exercise but also for ecological reasons. In Ghana, poor…
10 Female Teachers Selected for ICT Training Fellowship
Francis Npong Education is one of the most important aspects of human resource development. Poor teaching methodologies do not only…
Dishonour Corrupt Leaders-Zan Akologo
The Executive Secretary of the Department of Human Development of the National Catholic Secretariat, Mr Samuel Akologo Zan has advocated naming and shaming of corrupt leaders to reduce Ghana’s corruption perception index rating.
According to him, to reduce corruption in the country Ghanaian citizens must take bold steps to not only name and shame corrupt leaders but reward honesty and integrity.
Mr. Zan who was speaking at the 21st Denmark Seminar event organized by Ghana Developing Communities Association (GDCA) a Nongovernmental organization based in the Northern Region said the refusal by Ghanaians to accept the existence of corruption hinders progress in the fight against the canker.
Climate Information Centers Commission in Ghana
…to aid small holder farmers to adapt By: Francis Npong, Garu-Tempane Two ultra-modern climate information facilities have been commissioned in…
Police in Northern Region Hunt for Headteacher over Defilement Case
By: Francis Npong, Tamale The Police in Northern Region have intensified their search for the head teacher of Kanjo Junior…
Sheini Iron Ore: MPs task Mineral Commission to Investigate Mining Coys
The Parliamentary Select Committee on Energy and Mines have put pressure on the Mineral Commission of Ghana to investigate the…
1,250 Out-of-School Children to be Enrolled in Formal Education
Francis Npong, Zabzugu Stakeholders in education in Zabzugu and Saboba District Assemblies are working closely to enroll all out of…
IN HIS FAVOUR & MERCY YOU ARE INCLUDED: Prayers
Over 250 applications for the Innovation in Development Reporting Grant Programme
The European Journalism Centre (EJC) is pleased to announce that it has received over 250 applications in the fourth round…
The Accused: Inside Ghana’s Witches Camps
By: Francis Npong (Ghanaian Human Right Journalist) and Emily Rems, (Editor, Bust Magazine, USA) Mutaru Tachira was cast out…
Two SDA pastors, Others Charged for Theft
Sunyani (Brong Ahafo) — The Sunyani Circuit Court on Monday granted 200 million cedis bail each with two sureties to…
Drama Improves Epilepsy and Mental Health Campaign in Northern Region
Francis Npong, Tamale A 21-year-old Master Alhassan Jamaldeen is an epileptic patient resident at Sang in the Mion District of…
NRGI Calls for Discussions to Diversify Economy in Mining Communities
Francis Npong, Obuasi The Obuasi Municipal Assembly is likely to suffer financially pretty soon if the economy of the area…
Climate Change Enhances Collaboration between Men and Women in Northern Ghana
Francis Npong, Tamale In Northern Ghana, men often have the responsibility of providing food for their households throughout the year. In the days of our…
Girls Enrollment in Education Increase in Ghana-Thanks to IBIS and Other International Organizations
Report Mohammed Nurudeen. There is increasing access across all levels of basic education in Ghana, says the Education Sector Performance…
Poor Leadership: North Ghana Mission of SDA Crumbles
Climate Change Adaptation: Illiterate Farmers Go Back to School
Francis Npong, Gushiegu, Ghana, Farmers in some communities in the Gushiegu District are learning basic agriculture and climate science which also…
Impact of Climate Change: NGO Pushes for Collaboration to Achieve Food Security
Francis Npong, Gushegu, the Communities Life Improvement Programme (CLIP), Non For Making organization in Tamale, Northern Region of Ghana is…
GMOs and Ebola Virus Disease are Synonymous
Francis Npong, Tamale: The outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) tops the news in Africa last month. In Ghana one…
Solving Ghana’s Water Crisis Needs Political Commitment
Francis Npong, Tamale-Ghana; Water resource has come under great stress in Ghana due to growing population and increased in demand…
Adopt or not to Adopt: GMOs are Trap-Nets for Africa
Francis Npong: Ghana’s land and climate is still the best and suitable for the production of crops. Yes I mean any…
GMO Controversy: Danes Agric Engineers not Considering as Option
Francis Npong-Tamale: Is Ghana a sovereign nation? If yes what is the development ideology of Ghana? Well, I assume that…
Climate Science: “Community People are not completely ignorant”-Oxfam
…as Cardero Canada and Emmaland Resources urge to do right thing Francis Npong, Tamale The Executive Director for the Rural…
Pursuing Green Agenda: Danish Gov’t Tests World Biggest WindMills
From: Francis Npong, Denmark Denmark (Kingdom) has a long tradition of ambitious climate policies and is credited with being the…
Climate Science: “Community People are not completely ignorant”-Oxfam
By: Npong Francis-Tamale (Ghana) “Though they did not go to school, community people are not completely ignorant about climate change.…
Simple Maize Sheller Developed for Northern Farmers
Clement Boateng, Tamale Agro-technologists have over the years scaled up efforts to develop technologies to relieve farmers from labour constraints…
Urban Food Plus: Solves Urban Agric Problems in West Africa
Francis Npong, Tamale An international agricultural research aimed to improve food security and effective resource utilization in urban and peri-urban…
Bring Cardero Resources to Book: Sheini Communities Urge Government
Briefing paper: Released by Media Advocates for Sustainable Environment (MASE) MINING IN SHEINI 24/01/2014 …
MASE REPORT ON SHEINI IRON ORE PROJECT
MASE REPORT ON SHEINI IRON ORE PROJECT Francis Npong Background: Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, the first president of Ghana initiated a project to…
Tears Flow for Sheini Mining Communities
…as Cardero Canada and Emmaland Resources urge to do right thing Francis Npong, The Executive Director for the Rural Media…
HEALED BY WATCHING EMMANUEL TV Of Broken
A Christian Television that took over the world for positive way
Seed Battle: The Silent War Ranges On, GMO and Hybrid who rules?
By: Francis Npong Farmers vulnerability and plight is not the subject matter neither food security nor sustainable agriculture but the…
Community Climate Change Adaptation: CARE leads the Way in Africa
Mahama Aminatu, a 27-year old mother is a resident of Jawani, a farming community in the East Mampurusi District of…
Learning to Cope: Rural Community takes Basic Science in Climate Change
Story & Photos: Francis Npong Ghana, Zambulugu -“We are not learning in order to sit for exams, but to understand…
President Mahama must Take Keen Interest in Sheni Iron Project
Ghana, Sheini Iron Project is likely to form one of the key strategic electioneering campaign messages in 2016 presidential and Parliamentary…
World Vision Ghana’s EU-LEAN Project Trains Fulani Herdsmen, Farmers in Conflict Resolution in Natural Resource Use
Adama Musah, Chief of Fulani community in Kassena Nankana West District contributing to discussions on FMNR management, conflict resolution and…
The Magic of Football Uniting Ghanaians
By: Francis Npong Accra, Ghana – The obsession for football in Ghana began after the Ghana National Team-the Black Stars…
Ghana must brace for future calamity and leadership crisis
When Judas Iscariot was asked to join Jesus’ ministry, he was already engaged in money-making. He is thought to have hailed from a family with ties to terrorism, theft, and a fanatical Jewish sect that was obsessed with accumulating fortune at any cost.
Judas humbly made a bid for a more lucrative role in Jesus’ ministry: finance. Judas was given money for the ministry and was stealing from it, according to John 12:6. He had no one to answer to, not even his master, Jesus Christ. Jesus’ ministry was increasingly less concerned with accumulating wealth because it was more concerned with saving souls, changing the law, and laying the groundwork for the gospel to triumph.
Booing Nana Addo Akuffo: Expressing Sentiments of a Failed Leadership and System
Today I am intruding into matters of a national nature: the governance and leadership of President Nana Akuffo Addo. Despite the political climate of fear and institutionalized political terrorism, I am inspired by Nana Addo’s invitation to all citizens to be “responsible citizens; not spectators” to express my opinion.
TV3 GMB2022: Teiya Presentation Disputed
Francis Npong TV3 Ghana’s reality show, Ghana’s Most Beautiful (GMB), over the years, took Ghanaians through the histories of Ghanaian…
Ghanaian Rural Women Navigate Climate Crisis Through Art
World Vision uses systematic approaches that integrate different but complementary activities to ensure sustained household food security and economically empower households. One such approach is FMNR, an agroforestry methodology that integrates crop production with tree growth through shrub and tree stump pruning. It contributes to restoring degraded landscapes, increasing tree populations, reducing water and wind erosion of soil, improving soil nutrients, and improving moisture retention.
Weak economic fundamentals: The dilemma of Bawumia
Its been a while since Dr Bawumia updated the nation on the economic situation. What are the prices of kenkey…
Investment in water, energy, technologies and public-private partnership solutions to sustainable vegetable farming in northern Ghana
All it will take to develop sustainable vegetable farming, build farmers’ resilience, reduce poverty and enhance the income and livelihood of farmers’ households is to enable access to reliable water and energy infrastructure and technologies. Read more…
Wood waste briquette technology forest resources governance game changer?
By: Francis Npong West African woodlands are shrinking at an alarming rate due to population pressure. Forest resources, such as…
Sustaining gender progress: a new thought
By: Francis Npong Conversations on gender have followed strategic gender-based programming at all levels of society. Since the 1990s, the…
Social Transformation Analysis: A new Development Tool for Positive Impact
By: Francis Npong Change is the only constant thing that occurs regularly. The adoption and integration of culture and lifestyle,…
Onchocerciasis Ruins Communities in Upper East, Ghana
The villages of Farfar, Sisie, Zabu and Kuka in the Garu-Tampane District, the poorest countryside in the Upper East region…
The Hidden Cost Fossil Fuels Part 2: Heatwaves, More Deaths: Let’s Break Free from Fossil Fuels
There is warm and then there is too warm. Scientists have discovered that without the atmosphere’s natural insulating blanket of…
Good Old Days are Gone Indeed! How I Won My Father’s Prize
By: Npong Balikawu Good old days are gone indeed! Life was good at Tatale. Growing up in Tatale was like…
The good Old Days Are Gone Indeed! And Why Kwame Noway Could not Win Assembly Elections Until Recently
By: Npong Balikawu I was born and bred at Tatale. While growing up, Tatale Middle School (now Junior High) and…