Tag Archives: KUMASI

Commercial activities at Adum in the Ashanti Region came to a halt as about fifteen minutes of heavy rains rendered roads in the area impassable. OTEC News’ Kwame Agyenim Boateng on Thursday, September 15, 2022, reported that commercial and residential places were inundated by flood waters accompanied by heavy vehicular …

Former Minister for Defence, Dr Kwame Addo-Kufuor, has been appointed as Chancellor of the Kumasi Technical University. Dr. Addo-Kufuor’s investiture is scheduled for Friday, September 30, 2022. Dr. Addo-Kufuor will become the first chancellor of the university, which was formally Kumasi Polytechnic. “Kumasi Technical University is pleased to announce the investiture …

Kumasi is set to become the first city in Ghana to have an Electric Light Rail Transportation (Tram System) as part of government’s effort to ease traffic congestion in the Ashanti Region’s capital. The Tram system is one of the sophisticated means of transport found mostly in Europe. This type …

Campaigners are hoping to have the new Kumasi International Airport renamed in honour of Baffour Osei Akoto, the brain behind the National Liberation Movement (NLM). The Dean of the Faculty of Law at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Dr. Ernest Owusu-Dapaa, who is the latest to …

Some unknown cable thieves have reportedly invaded Kumasi, the Ashanti Regional capital, with their illegal activities. These hoodlums have started a grand operation of stealing electricity cables that are connected to the street lights in the city. Their actions have led to several streets in the city being plunged into …

Ten out of fifteen foreign child beggars rescued by the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) tested positive for HIV, Tuberculosis, and COVID-19 after going through medical screening. These underprivileged children were picked from the streets in a swoop by a joint task force of the Social Welfare department and the Metropolitan …

A middle-aged man has lost his life in a fatal accident on the Accra-Kumasi Highway. The accident reportedly occurred on Tuesday at the Nsuapemso Junction between Akyem Nsutam and Osino in the Fanteakwa South district of the Eastern Region. It was a collision involving a Toyota 4Runner with registration number GR 348 …

Earlier this week, it came to bare that a total of 23,495 people in Ghana tested positive for HIV in the first half of this year (January to June). This was disclosed by the Programme Manager of the National STIs and HIV/AIDS Control Programme, Dr Stephen Ayisi Addo. But despite …

The Kumasi Traditional Council has requested that Oyerepa FM, a radio station situated in Kumasi, stops broadcasting on Friday, August 26, until further notice. When a team from Oyerepa FM and TV arrived before the Traditional Council to offer an apology over remarks made by Akwasi Addai ‘Odike’ against Manhyia …

A directive by the governing New Patriotic Party to some members of the party not to stage a health walk in honour of the Minister of Trade Industry, Alan Kyerematen, was defied as hundreds turned up for the walk on the morning of Saturday, August 13, 2022 in Kumasi. In what could be …