A Guinean NGO in New York, Pottal Fii Bhantal (United For Development) has been organizing a soccer tournament for its nationals in the New York area for the past 10 years. This year, the tournament has kicked off in full force. According to the Former President of Pottal Fii Bhantal, Abdoulaye S. Diallo, the purpose of the […]
The Fouta Djallon (Fulani) community in the New York-New Jersey-Connecticut Tri-State area held their second annual cultural event dubbed Pottal Fii Bhantal Fouta Djallon in New York over the weekend. The event attracted members of the community as well as other Guinean nationals, the extended African community and well wishers. The colorful event was a
As you many have noticed, Ghnewsnow is in the process of readjusting and re-positioning to improve our operations and the quality of the modes we use to bring you news and opinion. As part of that process, there has been a re-shuffle in the team structure. Nana Kwadwo Jantuah joins our Ghana desk. Nana Jantuah
60 Years Of Pure Distinction The idea to establish the school started in 1956 when a delegation approached Fr. Cletus Hodapp of the Society of the Divine Word Missionaries (SVD) with a proposal to establish a school in Nkwatia. After a meeting between the then Nkwatiahene (Chief of Nkwatia) Nana Asante Yaidom III and his elders
The Ashanti regional police command in collaboration with the military has deployed 140 armed police and military personnel to flush out illegal miners operating at Obuasi and Susanso. The move, according to the Ashanti regional police commander DCOP Ken Yeboah, aims at supporting the government’s attempt at ending the galamsey menace which is destroying Ghana’s
The Public Relations Officer for the Small Scale Miners Association in the Central Region , Peter Ayilay has blamed the high rate of illegal mining in the country especially the central region on the bureaucracy in acquiring mining permits . The process he says is characterised by unhealthy delays which push miners to adopt crude
Paga, Ghana’s border town close to Burkina Faso, has been thrown into a state of shock after a proprietor of a filling station pulled out a pistol and lodged a bullet in the head of a pump attendant at a rival filling station. Osman Paregavwa, who is now in police cells, is said to have
As part of Ghana’s year-long Diamond Jubilee celebrations, Brooklyn Borough President Eric L. Adams will be hosting a flag-raising ceremony at the Brooklyn Borough Hall on Friday April 21, 2017 from 5:00 pm to 9:00 pm. A statement says H. E. Martha Ama A. Pobee, Permanent Representative of Ghana to the United Nations and the Consular-General, New York,
The Amansie West district Education directorate has commenced a counseling session for parents in the area in order to curb a rising menace of child betrothing. Several parents, according to the Amanse West District Director of Education, Dora Atigbire, offer their underage daughters to older men on condition that they send them to school and
The police in Tamale are hunting for a group of attackers suspected to have strangled to death a 12-year-old class five schoolchild of a Nigerian couple after gang raping her on Tuesday at Ggblo-Kpalsi – a waterlogged suburb of the Northern regional capital. According to the police, the victim was going to her parents’ store
