Tag Archives: KUMASI

Tension is mounting Kumasi New Kejetia Market as traders besieged the Kejetia Management office of Kumasi City Markets Limited over high electricity bills suspecting they are being shortchanged. The traders over the years have complained bitterly over high electricity bill and poor treatment received from the management of the facility. …

Trade and Industry Minister-designate, Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen, on Friday, announced, that the Free Zones Enclave in Kumasi would be turned into Ghana’ second industrial city, after Tema. Mr Kyerematen said a public-private partnership was advancing towards developing the land acquired by the Government at Ejisu for activities in the industrial …

Traders at the Kumasi Central Market are threatening to boycott activities in protest of what they claim to be their relocation with no adequate accommodation arrangement. The city authority has accused the traders of failing to move to designated areas to pave way for the second phase of the market …

Over 100 metal container shops have been demolished by a private developer at Krofrom CPC in the Ashanti region. The exercise is said to have been conducted around 5 am Saturday when occupants had not opened their shops. The over 100 metal container shops were pulled down even before occupants …

A total of 16 fire outbreaks have been recorded in Kumasi in the Ashanti region within this year so far. Fire outbreaks have swept through a mini market around Republic Hall of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), parts of Suame Magazine, Aboabo Station and Dagombaline among …

The Mpaboahene of Otumfuo Osei Tutu II Nana Yaw Owusu, the presiding judge at Asokwa Magistrate Court in Kumasi, His Lordship Korkor Owusu Achaw, Ashanti Regional Police Commander, COP Kwasi Mensah Duku and 5 others have been cited for contempt of court over a disputed land case before a Court of Appeal …

It is emerging that the clash between military-cum-police force and some demonstrators said to be members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) was over the billboard of former President John Dramani Mahama. Regional Communications Officer of the NDC in the Ashanti Region Nurudeen Abass told Accra-based Okay FM that they were surprisingly refused …

The Kumasi Airport is to be upgraded to international standard, Ashanti Regional Minister Simon Osei-Mensah has announced. According to him, the runway is being expanded by 200 metres more so as to make it an international airport. The minister was speaking at the Nation Building Updates held in Accra on …

The Motor Traffic and Transport Department (MTTD) of the Ashanti Regional Police Command says it has identified the victims of an accident at Anloga Junction in Kumasi on Thursday. According to the police, their families have been contacted. Three persons were burnt beyond recognition after a loaded truck hit a …

Three persons have been burnt to death after a loaded truck collided with tricycle at Anloga Junction in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region. According to eyewitnesses, the loaded truck failed its brake and hit the tricycle and as a result, all the occupants in the tricycle got burnt and died …