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37 year old teacher butchered by unknown assailants at Agogo

A Basic School teacher at Asante Akyem Agogo in the Ashanti Region have been butchered to near  death for allegedly chasing  another man’s girlfriend. The victim, Maxwell Opoku, 37, according to residents was butchered by an unknown man in a mask on the night of Tuesday, July 11, 2023. He …

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I will deal with you if you trespass again – Drobonsohene warns Agogo Police Commander

Nana Dankwah Dwubin-Siaw II, the Chief of Drobonso in the Sekyere Afram Plains District of the Ashanti Region has warned the Commander of the Agogo District Police, Mr. Owusu Bempah to desist from conducting operations in territories not under his control. Sekyere Afram Plains, according to Nana Dwubin Siaw, is …

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Agogo State SHS teachers flog students for fetching water outside campus

Ten students of Agogo State Senior High School (SHS) in the Ashanti Akim North District of the Ashanti Region have been mercilessly beaten by teachers for fetching water outside the school campus. According to the students, they went to the community near the school to fetch water following water shortage …

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Fire guts shoe factory at Atonsu Agogo

A gas tank has caught fire at the premises of a shoe factory close to the Lobab International School at Atonsu Agogo in the Kumasi Municipality of the Ashanti Region. The incident occurred on Friday, 17 June 2022, and caused thick acrid smoke in the area. Students of the Lobab …

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Asante Akyem Agogo traditional council bans expensive funerals

The Asante Akyem Agogo Traditional Council has introduced comprehensive measures to curb expensive funerals in the area. Among the measures is a ban on the performance of widowhood rites and the use of beer and other drinks to serve mourners, special clothes, and T-shirts during funerals. This was during a meeting …

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Lawyer exposes Yaw Osafo-Maafo’s role in Opuni, Agongo trial

  Lawyer Nutifafa Nutsukpi, counsel for the second and third accused persons in the ongoing trial of Dr Stephen Opuni, former COCOBOD CEO and Seidu Agongo, businessman, says Yaw Osafo-Maafo, the former Senior Minister directed the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service to take over the investigation because …

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Agogo Traditional Area enstools new Dompeahene

  Entrepreneur and Chief Executive Officer of upstream and downstream oil and gas services firm Brogya Resources Limited, Carl Brogya-Sarpong, has been enstooled as the Dompeahene of Agogo Traditional Area in the Asante Akim North District of the Ashanti Region. He will bear the stool name Dompeahene Nana Bediako Brogya …

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Opuni-Agongo trial: Fourth prosecution witness exposed in court

The fourth prosecution witness in the ongoing trial of former COCOBOD CEO and two others was found wanting after it emerged that she issued different fertilizer certificates to Sidalco without recourse to an Act of parliament regulating how her office is administered. The witness, Dr. Felicia Ansah-Amprofi, who is the …

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CAF celebrates legendary Ghanaian footballer Junior Agogo

The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has paid tribute to former Ghana and Nottingham Forest forward Junior Manuel Agogo. The football governing body in Africa through its official twitter account celebrated Junior Agogo for his remarkable display during the 2008 Africa Cup of Nations. Agogo became a cult hero in African football …

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Kwesi Appiah eulogies Agogo

Head coach of the senior national soccer team the Black Stars James Kwasi Appiah has expressed shock at the demise of the former team striker, Junior Manuel Agogo. According to the Black Stars master tactician, Junior Agogo was very hard working, eloquent and behaves professionally at training even though he …

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