Tag Archives: WESTERN

Togo’s first president, Sylvanus Olympio, was a vocal critic of Ghana’s first president, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, especially over his attempt to take over the Western Togoland, now Volta Region. According to him, Ghana did not only want to merge Western Togoland to it, but it also wanted to integrate …

About six individuals allegedly tied a suspected thief to a gold house and subjected him to a vicious assault after apprehending him in an attempted gold theft in Asankrangwa, located in the Amenfi West Municipality of the Western Region. According to reports, a viral video captured the brutal attack, during …

The 2020 Running mate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC),Prof. Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang paid a visit to some EC Voter Registration Centres in the Western Region. Prof.Agyemang was in the Western Region to monitor the registration process so as to feed herself the information on the exercise to ascertain and …

All is set to establish a lithium refinery in the country in the Western Region. To this end, Lithium Resources Ghana Limited, a joint venture company of UK-based CAA Mining Ltd and Em­pire Rare Earth and Metals Group Ltd, a local company are currently exploring suitable and strategic location for …

An ammonia nitrate explosive disaster at a quarry in the Shama district of the Western Region has reportedly four confirmed as many are missing and injured. According to reports the explosion happened on Saturday night at a quarry site operated by some Chinese at Anto-Aboso in the Shama District of …

The National Petroleum Authority (NPA) has reported the confiscation of a substantial amount of smuggled crude oil and diesel in the Western Region between January and April 2023. During separate operations conducted by the Ghana Navy and Marine Police, a total of 108,000 litres of diesel and 73,000 litres of …

Flagbearer aspirant Kennedy Agyapong disclosed the Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo government pissed him off when he appointed people of northern extraction to influential positions in his administration. He disclosed that he does not know if Northerners in the party are the only people who vote for the New Patriotic Party(NPP) to be elevated to …

The Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) have uncovered an illegal explosives manufacturing hub in Tarkwa, Western Region, resulting in the arrest of 13 foreign nationals. The syndicate, comprising eight Chinese, three Togolese, an Ivorian, and a Nigerian, were found to be producing over 20,000 pieces of illegal explosives, including around 10,000kg …

The Criminal Division of the High Court in Accra presided over by Justice Mary Maame Ekue Yanzuh, has sentenced five Western Togoland secessionists who were arrested by the police in September 2020 after they blocked the Aveyime road from Accra with sand and attacked the Aveyime and Mepe Police, Stations …

An Accra High Court has convicted some five accused persons said to be members of the Western Togoland Restoration Front (WTRF), an offshoot of Homeland Study Group (HSG) after finding them guilty for offences contrary to the Prohibited Organisations Act. 1976 (SMCD 20). Per the brief facts of the case, …