Kofi Ahovi

  A freelancer, Kofi Ahovi, has been adjudged the best in agribusiness reporting at the just ended 2018 IFEJ Flamingo Awards in Accra. He, in his story "Addressing Climate Change through Clean Cooking", sets out to project issues bordering on climate change, internationally and locally, and particularly the need to curb actions eroding reforms and progress made to address climate change. The focus of his article is the use of clean cooking technologies, such as improved cook stoves and the potential of using these improved cook stoves to greatly reduce tree felling for firewood and emissions into the atmosphere. The article also spelt out the likely employment opportunities from clean cooking technologies. Reading the award citation, Felix Klutse a member of the Jury, said "The subject is original, self-generated and of interest for both public understanding and policy". He also added that the language used in the article enhanced readability, while the reportage me...

By Kofi Ahovi Millions of women, in developing countries, breathe in harmful smoke daily while cooking their families’ meals and walking far distances to secure fuel in order to cook those meals. Exposure to smoke from traditional cookstoves and open fires, the primary means of cooking for nearly three billion people in the developing world, causes nearly four million premature deaths each year, including 18,000 annual deaths in Ghana, and millions more suffer from cancer, pneumonia, heart and lung disease, blindness, and burns. More than 70 percent of Ghana’s population relies on solid fuels for their household cooking needs. Reliance on biomass increases pressure on local natural resources, leading to environmental degradation, and forces women and children to spend many hours each week collecting wood. Inefficient cooking also contributes to climate change through emissions of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane, and aerosols such as black carbon. Exposure to sm...

News Update MTN Ghana, the largest telecommunication service provider in the country, is treating its customers to another exclusive cinema experience at the Silverbird cinemas in Accra on Thursday February 15th, 2018. For the very first time, some selected subscribers of MTN will have the privilege to attend the prescreening of the much-anticipated block buster movie, ‘Black Panther’. ‘Black Panther’ is cased in a fictional African Town called Wakanda, whose people are most unassuming but highly tech-savvy. The movie was produced in Marvel studio’s second installment of the movie Avengers. T’Challa played by Chadwick Boseman, is the son of the dead king who returns home to take up the responsibility of kingship. But his ascension to the throne is threatened by two enemies who collaborate to destroy the kingdom. In order to avert a world war, T’Challa has to become the Black Panther, and team up with CIA agent Everett Ross and members of the Dora Milaje-Wakanda's all-female s...