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Eleven people died and dozens wounded after a commercial Sprinter bus collided with a fully loaded passenger Ford bus on the Dunkwa-Obuasi highway on Monday night. The crash happened at about 9:30 p.m. at Anwona, near Obuasi, about 55 kilometres away from Kumasi. It took rescuers made up of fire …

A Police Inspector identified as Godwin Mensah stationed at Agona Swedru in the Central but currently with Operation Vanguard at Obuasi has been arrested for leading his colleagues to rob a gold dealer. The Inspector was reported to have embarked on the operation alongside one unidentified Lance Corporal and a …

Happy 98.9 FM’s Obuasi correspondent, Meshak Osei has revealed that residents of Obuasi have been stigmatizing Chinese nationals living in the town and the behaviour has increased after the town was declared a COVID-19 hotspot not long ago. According to him, high levels of misinformation, ignorance and fear has led to this …

Security personnel have been deployed to Obuasi in the Ashanti Region after residents there protested against plans to establish an isolation centre for COVID-19 patients in that part of the country. The residents fear contracting the virus from the isolation centre. District Chief Executive (DCE) of Obuasi East, Faustina Amissah, urged the …

Ghana has learnt a lot of lessons in mining which will help the country to forestall the “Obuasi situation” in Nyinahin where bauxite would be mined, Vice-President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has said. “After almost 100 years of mining gold, we have learnt some hard lessons”, Dr Bawumia said at a …

Police in Obuasi have launched investigations into a mine pit collapse at Akrokerri Bronikrom, in the Ashanti Region, which has claimed the life of a 35-year-old man. It took personnel from the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) and the police several hours to retrieve the body which was trapped under the …