How can simple SMS technology is transforming the lives of poor rural farmers and the potential to change Ghana’s agricultural sector? Nana Boakye-Yiadom examines how, hitherto, many poor farmers are now sending their children to school, building modern houses, and having better lives for those who have discovered and signed on to the technology. Boakye-Yiadom visits four regions of Ghana - Northern, Brong-Ahafo, Central and Ashanti regions - to explore the workings of the simple but effective technology. 

PHONE FARMING: How SMS is changing Ghana's agricultural landscape

There is a huge human resource gap in Ghana’s oil and gas sector, three years after it started producing crude oil in commercial quantities. The cost of training especially at the master’s degree level is expensive and many Ghanaians could be left out if they can’t afford.
A number of organizations are sponsoring young Ghanaians to pursue further studies in Europe and the US but the issue of brain drain is still a threat to the building of human resource for the industry.
In the third of Radio France International's series on education in Africa, Nana Boakye-Yiadom reports from Accra.

FUNDING MASTERS PROGRAMMES, HEADACHE FOR GHANAIAN YOUTH

The struggle about how residents along lake Naivasha, investors, hippos and other animals that all want a piece of the lake to survive. A piece i did when i was on Lake Naivasha, in Kenya.

LAKE NAIVASHA REPORT

The fifth and final episode in RFI's series Cults of Christ, the spotlight was on the True Faith Church which was founded in Ghana during British colonial times. And as Nana Boakye-Yiadom reports from Accra the church has dwindled in numbers due to it's unorthodox interpretation of Christianity in a modern era.

CULTS OF CHRIST

You will be surprised how your favourite watsapp app or social network site is hurting you. You're losing more than the fun.

HOW SOCIAL MEDIA TOOLS ARE HURTING YOU

Illegal fishing in Ghana cost the West African country over one hundred million euros last year. The phenomenon is now posing massive threat to livelihoods of ten percent of Ghana’s 24 million population who depend on the industry. From Accra, at the James Town beach Nana Boakye-Yiadom reports...

ILLEGAL FISHING IN GHANA

The killing of the Upper East Regional Chairman of Ghana's biggest opposition party NPP, has triggered widespread condemnation and internal wrangling in the party.