Tag Archives: Ashanti Region

The President of the republic, Nana  Akufo-Addo, has pointed out that his administration since assuming office in 2017, has commenced the construction of about thirty-two (32) hospital projects in the Ashanti Region alone. Several of them President Akufo-Addo, says have been completed with others at various stages of completion. Addressing …

The Ghana Police Service has interdicted two of its officers over the death of a suspect in a cell at the Abrafo-Kokoben Police Station in the Ashanti Region. The interdiction of the officers, No.44908 G/Sgt. Isaac Amponsah Broni and No.55453 G/Const. Solomon Yeboah is, “to allow investigation into the circumstances …

Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II has called on the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) to furnish the Ashanti region with more developmental projects.   The Asante Monarch said the region is the stronghold of the governing party and for that reason, it deserves the best.   “[The] Ashanti region is …

The youth of Bantama in Kumasi have resolved to provide stiff competition for the forty-seven parliamentarians in the Ashanti Region during any elections that will be organised by the party. According to the Bantama Youth Group, their decision is aimed at protesting the inability of the incumbent MPs to lobby …

Scores of residents within Obuasi in the Ashanti Region have embarked on a demonstration over what they described as worsening unemployment among the youth in the mining community.       The protestors want the management of Anglogold Ashanti to absorb them into the mining company. They wielded placards with …

Authorities of the Ghana Education Service in Asokore Mampong in the Ashanti Region have rejected claims by a news portal that a teacher-trainee, posted to a school in the municipality has impregnated 24 of the school girls, four female teachers, and the headmistress.   In a statement dated June 3, …

One of the defeated contestants for the New Patriotic Party’s Ashanti Regional Chairmanship position has disclosed that he paid ¢1,000 to each delegate on the election day in his quest to win. Robert Asare Bediako said despite paying the delegates, they still did not vote for him.   The defeated …

There was a mad rush for fuel at a town believed to be Kaase, a suburb of Kumasi in the Ashanti region after a diesel tanker toppled over.   Although the details of how the accident happened are yet to be made public, in the video that has gone viral, …

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will begin a two-region tour from Friday, October 1. President Akufo-Addo will take seven days to tour the Ashanti and Eastern regions.   Addressing journalists at the Presidency on Monday, Director of Public Affairs at the Jubilee House Eugene Arhin said the President has toured …

A video of some alleged “sakawa” boys driving a convoy of luxury cars at Offinso in the Ashanti Region were bragging that “if you can’t drink blood, you can’t be like us” has generated concerns. The paramount chief of Offinso in the Ashanti region has charged the police to devise …