Residents of Aboabo, a suburb of Kumasi in the Ashanti Region have abandoned the designated public toilet and resorted to open defecation where dredging machines are kept. Lives and properties were lost in 2015 during a heavy down pour in Asawase, Aboabo No 1, 2 and Dagomba line. In its quest to curb choked gutters […]
By Kwesi E. Baako It was a good show. It was! But we only got so much because the artist stood us up and did not give us the interview he so courteously said he would. That said… I set off for the Irving Plaza in Manhattan, New York where the ‘Go Higher Concert’
19 patients across the country with heart -related diseases including a foreigner, have benefited from free cardiac surgery at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi of the Ashanti Region. The free open heart surgery was conducted by USA- based Cadioster International, with a mission of helping Ghana to develop their cardiac surgery programmes and cardiology
President John Mahama has said the brochure gaffe was avoidable. According to him, the Chief of Staff is making efforts to ensure the incident of having a mistake-riddled brochure for celebrating Ghana’s Independence Day anniversary does not happen again. The Acting Director of the Information Services Department, Francis Arthur, was fired for the gaffe. He
Ghana’s president John Dramani Mahama has condemned the terrorists’ attacks on Ivory Coast and Turkey, describing the acts as “despicable and unconscionable.” The extremists vented their anger on the West African and European nations at the Grand Bassam beach resort and the Kizilay district respectively on Sunday, March 13, 2016. Twelve people died in the
The Electoral Commission (EC) has rolled out series of activities for the conduct of the 2016 presidential and parliamentary elections including the revision and exhibition of the voters’ roll. The EC 2016 Activity calendar indicates that the Inter-Party Advisory Committee (IPAC) would meet nine times before the Election Day – tentatively on the first Monday
The Minister of Local Government and Rural Development Alhaji Collins Dauda has expressed worry over poor performance of students in Mathematics, Integrated Science and English language in the Asunatifi constituency. According to the Asunatifi South Member of Parliament (MP), low scores of students in these three subjects have denied several youth in the constituency admissions
Members of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) and supporters of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) clashed at the funeral grounds of Bantamahene Baffuor Amankwaa V on Thursday afternoon at Bantama, a suburb of Kumasi in the Ashanti Region. Eyewitness accounts say supporters of the NPP started it all, when they started hooting at President John Dramani Mahama upon
The chief of Bantama in Kumasi and war Marshall of the Asantehene, Baffour Asare Owusu Amankwatia V is expected to buried to night . The sudden death of the powerful Chief was officially announced in line with traditional custom. Reports say he died at the Korle-Bu Teaching hospital in Accra on January 25 this year after
Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, the Asantehene, has stated that he financially supported the erstwhile Kufuor administration when it first came to power. The Ashanti monarch made the comments while dismissing rumours that he is a member of the ruling National Democratic Congress. According to him, he has had to work with every President who has
