Tag Archives: KUMASI

Meanwhile, the Ashanti Regional Coordinating Council (RCC) has given traders at the Kumasi Central Market up to midnight of March 13th this year, to vacate the market for the reconstruction works to begin. The entire market would be barricaded and the structures pulled down after the deadline and any wares …

Traders at the Kumasi Central Market on Tuesday stormed the premises of Otec FM, a private radio station, to register their displeasure at Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) over their eviction.   The traders, according to them, have their stalls fenced on Tuesday, March 9, 2021, and prevented entry, without prior …

Popular Ghanaian Gospel musician, Joseph Mensah has made a shocking revelation about some musicians in the country. Speaking in an exclusive interview with ZionFelix on the ‘Uncut Show’, the ‘Anadwo Bogya’ hitmaker disclosed that he knows many gospel musicians in Kumasi who are gays. When asked if he was sure …

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 …