GENERAL NEWS

Chiefs, people of Effutu marks high point of Aboakyer festival

The chiefs and people of the Effutu Traditional Area in the Central Region have held a durbar in Winneba to climax the annual Aboakyer festival. The festival climaxed with the accustomed hunting of a live deer from the sacred forest was undertaken by the Dentsifo and Tuafo Asafo groups. There …

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Free SHS increasing Ghana’s unemployment challenge – Asantehene

Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II has said that although the Free Senior High School (SHS) policy is essential to Ghana’s development, its implementation has created some challenges for the country. According to Otumfuo, the implementation of the Free SHS policy which has led to an increase in enrolment in secondary schools in …

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‘Poorly paid journalists threat to national security’ – GBC Director General

The Director General of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation, GBC, Professor Amin Alhassan has called for better remuneration for Journalists in Ghana. Speaking at an Editor’s Breakfast Meeting organised by the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) in collaboration with the European Union to mark Europe Week in Ghana, Professor Alhassan said Journalists …

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Fmr. GNPC boss K.K Sarpong to be sworn in Offinso Paramount Chief

The Kingmakers of the Offinso Traditional Council in the Ashanti traditional area have unanimously nominated former Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana National Petroleum Company (GNPC) Kofi Kodua Sarpong known in private life as Dr KK Sarpong as the successor of the late Paramount Chief of the area Nana Awiafe …

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Ghana saved GHC3.3m because Akufo-Addo flew commercial on US trip – Ablakwa

The Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has disclosed that the state made savings equivalent to over 3.3 million cedis because President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo opted to fly commercial on his latest trip to the United States. According to the National Democratic Congress (NDC) MP, who …

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Nothing satanic about Christians being chiefs – Daasebre Ayimadu

The Okyeman Gyaasehene, Daasebre Ayimadu Kantomanto, has called on Christian leaders to allow their members to be made chiefs in their villages and towns, since, according to him, there is nothing satanic about chieftaincy. In his view, being a traditional leader offers Christians a golden opportunity to purify and Christianise …

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Dormaahene appeals to Asantehene to extend development to his area

The Dormaahene, Osagyefo Oseadeeyo Dr. Nana Agyemang Badu II, has appealed to the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II to extend urgently needed development to his area. His appeal was contained in a widely circulated video in which the Dormaahene is heard challenging the Asantehene on the installation of a chief …

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“Advice Your Son” – Dormaahene To Queen Mother Of Manhyia

Osaagyefo Oseadeeyo Dr Nana Agyemang Badu II, Dormaahene, has issued a strong warning to Otumfuor Osei Tutu II, Asantehene, following the installation of the chief of Esumeja, a sub-chief in the Ashanti Region under the jurisdiction of Dormaa. Dormaahene, Osaagyefo Nana Agyemang Badu II Dormaahene said, that Otumfuor was wrong …

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Kejetia flooding: Management sets up seven member facts finding committee

The Management of the New Kejetia Market in the Kumasi Metropolis has set up a seven member facts finding committee to probe circumstances leading to the pipe burst at the facility which caused massive destruction of wares. The committee which is made up of four executives from the identifiable groups …

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18-year-old gives birth to triplets, struggling to pay medical bills

An eighteen(18) year old girl has given birth to female triplets at the Eastern Regional Hospital in Koforidua but struggling to pay her medical bills. Princess Nyarkoa, a resident of Akyem Ahwenease in Abuakwa South Municipality delivered naturally on the 8th month of the pregnancy having been referred from the …

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