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There is uneasy calm in Okuapeman as traditional council declares null and void the launch of 2022 Odwira festival by some chiefs and Queen mothers. The Akuapem traditional council has subsequently cancelled the Odwira festival this year citing litigation on the legitimacy of Okuapehene Oseadeeyo Kwasi Akuffo III pending before …

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 …

Over 300 years ago, Okomfo Anokye, the priest or traditional healer of the Ashanti empire, who was then a friend and advisor of Osei Tutu (the Ashanti king at the time), called a meeting of all the heads of each Ashanti clan. The agenda was to unite under one of …

All is set for this year’s Kwahu Easter Paragliding Festival, Mr Kofi Atta Kakra Kusi, Deputy Head, Corporate Affairs, Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA), has disclosed. He said the festival since its inception in 2003, had been an annual event which brought dozens of tourists from in country and the diaspora …

The Mo/Dega communities celebrate the ‘Pea dii’ eating of yams festival at different periods by each community, that’s some places of Kintampo. This harvest festival starts in the middle of July and runs to the end of September. Mostly, it is usually celebrated in August when new yams are ready …

The 2022 Aboakyer Festival of the chiefs and people of Effutu has been launched with a call on the celebrants to be circumspect in their actions in order not to mar the beauty, peace and success of the festival. The festival, which commences on Saturday, April 30, with a sanitation …

At least eight people have died and scores of people have been hurt after a crowd surge on the opening night of a music festival in Houston, Texas. Panic broke out after the crowd began to press towards the front of the stage at rapper Travis Scott’s Astroworld Festival, emergency …

The Tema Traditional Council (TTC), on Wednesday, announced the cancellation of this year’s Kplejoo festival. The Council said the cancellation was necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic and the President’s ban on large gathering as a measure against the spread of the virus. Nii Amarh Somponu II, Tema Shipi and Stool …