Tag Archives: CHIEFTAINCY

Fresh Chieftaincy violence erupted Friday dawn between rival factions at Kpatinga in the Gushegu District of the Northern Region, MyNewsGh.com has confirmed. MyNewsGh.com gathered that the violence started at about 2am, according to residents, and continued till 5am when fighting was temporarily stopped by a heavy downpour in the town. …

Tension is mounting within the chieftaincy corridors in the Gonja Kingdom. Bole and Yagbon as the name of Bolewura go missing from the list of chiefs for the National House of Chiefs. Sarfor Kutuge Fieso I, together with his over 200 sub-chiefs and Queen Mothers have vowed to see the …

Opinion leaders including ex-assemblymen at Adum Kwanwoma in the Atwima Kwanwoma District of the Ashanti Region have petitioned the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II over brewing chieftaincy dispute in the area. They have, therefore, asked the Asantehene to expedite action on settling the dispute to enable a new chief to …

One person has been severely injured and at least two houses burnt after heavy gunfire exchanges erupted between two rival chieftaincy factions at Yong near Tamale in the Northern Region, MyNewsGh.com reports. The two factions have been fighting over the Yong skin after one side rejected a successor chief selected …

There is tension at Awenade community near Nkawkaw in the Eastern Region after supporters of a rival chief exhumed and dumped a dead body at the home of an opponent. According to the Eastern Regional Police Public Relations Officer (PRO) DSP Ebenezer Tetteh who confirmed the incident to MyNewsGh.com, the deceased …

Retaliations in Upper Dixcove in the Ahanta West district of the Western region, have left several residents injured over a chieftaincy dispute. It was the chief of Lower Dixcove and several subjects who were attacked Monday dawn leading to the kidnapping of the chief, Nana Kwesi Agyeman IX. Three days …