Tag Archives: ASHANTI

The Ghana Meteorological Agency (GMA) has announced that there would be rains in the later hours of the morning of Sunday, April 24, 2022. Announcing this through its social media handles, the GMA said the rains would be accompanied by windy conditions and affect parts of Accra and regions in …

In colonial times, the natural, regular order was for the colonized to be the cowards in most of the things that transpired in those eras, regardless of how oppressing or challenging they were. But like most stories, not everyone always falls in line when subjects of these nature come up …

The Ashanti Regional Minister, Hon. Simon Osei Mensah  has visited four major   project sites in  Region. The Minister embarked on the one-day tour to the sites on Thursday April 14,2022 to get first hand data on the progress on works at the various sites. Some of the projects he visited …

But for the timely intervention of a joint police-military team at Obuasi, a clash between angry artisans and officials of Anglogold Ashanti’s security personnel would have turned bloody. Mining artisans, popularly known as ‘galamseyers’ numbering over fifty, wanted to take over a mining pit abandoned by Anglogold Ashanti at Wawase, …

The Police in the Ashanti Region is on a manhunt for some suspected Fulani armed robbers who attacked a Yeji bound bus at Woraso on Thursday dawn. According to an eyewitness, the robbers blocked the main Ejura-Mampong road at Woraso to embark on the robbery. “They wielded assault rifles and …

The conversations that rolled out in the special edition of Showbiz A-Z in Kumasi this weekend were quite revealing. Among those revelations is that the Ashanti Kingdom is a pioneer to the phrase ‘The Big Six’. The Chief of Nkwantakese, Nana Boakye Yam Ababio, disclosed this interesting information during Saturday’s …

Two workers at a construction site were buried alive when a wall collapsed on them at Konkromoase, near Atasemanso in the Ashanti region. The two men, yet to be identified, are believed to be between the ages of 27 and 39 years. They were among four employees digging a trench …

The Ashanti Empire now known as the Ashanti Region boasts of producing 3 queens who are celebrated globally for their achievements in the fight against slave trade. They are Queen Yaa Asantewaa, Queen Nanny of Maroon, and Queen Abla Pokou of Baoule Kingdom. GhanaWeb today highlights Queen Nanny of Maroon, …

The Ghana Statistical Service has enumerated more than 90 per cent of residents in the Ashanti Region in the 2021 Population and Housing Census (PHC). Dr Kobina Abaka Ansah, the Regional Statistician, said over six million people were expected to be counted by the close of the ongoing mop-up exercise, …

  • Some Ashanti Youth Groups have given Bishop Dag Heward-Mills a 48-hour ultimatum to redeem himself from the attack on Otumfuo • The group has vowed to apply force against the Lighthouse leader if he does not act in a way that pleases them • A Plus has blasted …