A 19-year-old pregnant candidate in the ongoing Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) in a rural community called Kwahu Nketepa in the Eastern Region delivered a baby girl at dawn (2:30am) on Monday June 13 a few hours before her paper started, yet defied the odds to sit for the paper. Augustina Okronipa commuted from home […]
Minority leaderin Parliament Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu is accusing government of discriminating against districts in the Ashanti Region in the distribution of developmental projects. According to the Suame legislator, government is diverting all road projects meant for the Kumasi metropolis to areas in Asokore Manpong municipality under which and Asowase constituency falls which is a known
Ghana’s newest gold mine, the Asanko Gold Mine at Obotan in the Amansie West district of the Ashanti Region, has been inaugurated in a brief but colourful ceremony at Manso Nkran. This brings to fifteen the number of mining companies which have been duly licenced and are currently operating in the country. There is a
Flagbearer of the All People’s Congress, Hassan Ayariga, has rubbished media reports suggesting that children outnumbered delegates at the party’s congress held on Monday. According to him, such reports are intended to spite the party and to reduce them to public ridicule. Media reports after the congress that elected the businessman as first flagbearer of
The Wa Municipality has more girls writing this year’s receivedi than Boys. According to the figures out of the 2500 candidates writing this year, 1265 are girls while 1235 are boys. Per the figures, there 30 more girls writing the exam than boys and this is refreshing news to the municipal director of education. This
Pope Francis recently condemned the use of hunger as a “weapon of war” and lamented the fact that it was easier to move weapons across borders than the aid needed to keep civilians alive. Days after aid agencies were allowed to deliver food to the besieged Syrian town of Daraya for the first time since
Ghana’s First Lady, Mrs. Lordina Mahama, has recently charged her fellow African First Ladies to champion the rights of the adolescent girls in order to protect them against societal norms and violence. “Until each citizen, appreciates the importance of protecting adolescent girls, ending gender norms, and violence against girls, we must continue to advocate, until
Lack of potable water at the Anwomaso community clinic in the Ashanti region is hampering quality health delivery in the area. Health workers say they are compelled to ask patients in labour to carry water from their homes to the clinic before delivery. The challenge, according to the midwifery officer Mary Salifu, has resulted in
As a means of ending the hostility between the media in the Ashanti Region and the Manhyia Palace, authorities of the palace have announced plans to set up a press corps for Palace activities. This is expected to aid journalists in getting direct access to the palace for other relevant information from the Asante King
The Parliamentary candidate of the opposition New Patriotic Party for Wa Central Issahaku Moomin Tahiru has taken a swipe at the incumbent NDC MP for claiming he has achieved 80% goals for the constituency. The PC who was reacting to claims by the MP Rashid Pelpuo that he has been able to achieve the said
