The Ashanti Regional Deputy Secretary of the ruling National Democratic Congress has described as “needless, purely partisan and hogwash,” the thirty percent government appointees sworn into the various Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies. Kwame Zu was livid speaking passionately about the kind of names put up as government appointees joining the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly as […]
The Presidential Candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, says his party is targeting 80% of votes in the Ashanti Region. Speaking on the first day of his three -day Rise and Build tour in the Region, the former Attorney General said, “My main target in the Ashanti Region is to
President Mahama says judges indicted in the recent judicial corruption scandal will not be spared if proven guilty. The Vice President, Paa Kwesi Amissah Arthur, suspended the justices after a prima facie case was established against them. Speaking on a France-based TV station France 24, President Mahama said he had ordered the Chief Justice to
Businesses in the Ashanti and Brong Ahafo Regions are asking for an increase in the supply of power to industries in the two regions, as the power rationing regime continues to affect their output. The Ashanti and Brong Ahafo regions have been left to their fate per the increase in power supply to the country’s
Police in Kumasi in the Ashanti region have arrested a 30-year-old drinking bar operator for selling toffees manufactured with weed.Kofi Adu, popularly known as “Odi Sika”, was arrested at Ahensan, a suburb of Kumasi. According to the regional Police Command, “Odi Sika” was arrested in the process of manufacturing his products.A search conducted in his
Members of the NDC’s Communications Team in the Ashanti region have benefited from a three-day capacity building training to sharpen their communication skills so as to better propagate the achievement of the government to the public. About 200 participants were Constituency Communicators and their Deputies, Public Relations Officers of the Tertiary Education Institutions Network, TEIN,
The British High Commissioner has criticised some Ghanaian journalists for exhibiting traits of unprofessionalism and unethical behaviour by splashing pictures of dead bodies on screens and in the newspapers and taking money for covering events. Mr Jon Benjamin also slammed media houses, which he said, were providing their platforms to few self-aggrandised religious personalities to
The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has asked the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) to take appropriate steps to address the congestion at the Central Business District (CBD) to bring some sanity. Things, he said, needed to change, be properly controlled, to restore the city to its past beauty and glory as the “Garden City of
Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), a media rights organization, has petitioned President John Mahama to take action against presidential staffer, Stanislav Xoese Dogbe, for assaulting Yahyah Kwamoah, a journalist with the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC). This comes after various civil society groups and journalists had called on the president to take a stance on
A Vice Chairperson of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) Betty Mould-Iddrisu has lamented what she describes as the skewed manner in which the Media in the Ashanti region reports the achievement of the NDC government. In her view, Ghana in the last seven years under the NDC administration, has seen an unprecedented achievement in
