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By Zack Ohemeng Tawiah Workers of the Metro Mass Transit Service in Kumasi are protesting the disappearance of some buses. Nhyira News investigations confirm twelve buses have been moved out the company’s yard under mysterious circumstances in Kumasi, Tamale and Wa. The angry protesters have been wearing red outfits to register their displeasure in demand for answers … Read more…
By Zack Ohemeng Tawiah The lives of more than 2,500 residents of Asuboi, a farming community in the Offinso Municipality in the Ashanti Region are at risk of river blindness unless government and benevolent organizations intervene. Health officials say over 70 per cent of the population is infected following the invasion of black flies in the … Read more…
By Zack Ohemeng Tawiah Doctors at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital are refusing to admit patients in critical condition due to broken down life-support equipment at the Intensive Care Unit. They are threatening to suspend operations outright until management fixes the faulty ventilators, which have been down for the past four months. Nhyira FM’s Ohemeng … Read more…
By Benon Herbert Oluka The Uganda-China Friendship Agricultural Technology Demonstration Center in Kajjansi A government research institute is locked in a protracted fight with a private Chinese company over the control of a multi-billion shilling fish farming demonstration facility in Kajjansi, along Kampala-Entebbe road. Documents obtained by The Observer indicate that the Chinese company, Huaqiao Fenghuang … Read more…
By Benon Herbert Oluka In 2001, the government launched the rural electrification programme with the aim of connecting more Ugandans to the national grid. Nearly 15 years later, The Observer undertakes an audit of the programme in a three-part series of articles. In Part I of this series, BENON HERBERT OLUKA visits some of the communities … Read more…
Foot-and-mouth disease in more than 30 districts By Benon Herbert Oluka Banned beef and pork are on sale in nearly 30 districts where the government has imposed a quarantine following the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease. The majority of the affected districts are in eastern and northern regions. Sources in the affected areas say blatant defiance of … Read more…
How a community campaign in Uganda did what ‘Stop Kony 2012’ and US$ 2 billion aid money could not do. By Benon Herbet Oluka Janet Akello was forced to kill a small boy who had tried to escape from the Lord’s Resistance Army camp where she, too, was held captive. Phoebe* had a gun to … Read more…
Tobore Ovuorie’s exposure of the criminal syndicates that smuggle sex workers By Tobore Ovuorie Courageous undercover work by award winning Nigerian investigative reporter Tobore Ovuorie, in partnership with her colleague Reece Adanwenon in Benin and in close cooperation with the Premium Times and ZAM Chronicle, has unearthed the activities of human traffickers who recruit sex … Read more…
Even as malaria remains prevalent in Nigeria, the counterfeiting of anti-mosquito nets remain on the increase, exposing more citizens to the deadly effects of malaria. By Tobore Ovuorie Despite repeatedly receiving anti-mosquito nets, Remi Olatunde knew next to nothing about deploying or maintaining the malaria-preventive covers. When she got new ones from the hospital or shops, … Read more…
DR Congo | The ‘Virunga’ movie shows the rangers of the gorilla reserve in the DRC as heroes. The real picture is far more complex. By Eric Mwamba The new Virunga movie, showing at the international documentary festival IDFA, portrays the heavily armed rangers of the gorilla reserve in the DR Congo as heroes. They protect … Read more…