New Officers For Operation Vanguard
After almost two months of fighting illegal small-scale mining, popularly known as galamsey, in three regions, the first batch of officers from the Ghana Armed Offices and the Ghana Police Service...
Tag: Ashanti Region
Water Company Considers Shutting Barekese and Owabi Dams
The Ghana Water Company is considering a shutdown of its operations at the Barekese and Owabi dams in the Ashanti region if pollution of the water bodies serving the plants is not halted. Managers...
$50m Cattle Products Factory To Be Built In Sekyere East
Nana Addo’s one district-one factory policy has continued to see the daylight with the latest success to be soon recorded at the Sekyere East District in the Ashanti Region. The Sekyere East...
K’si: Police Arrest 10 Small Scale Miners For Assault, Possession of Weapon
Five persons who were arrested Tuesday for misconducting themselves and assaulting some police personnel during a demonstration by some small scale miners in Kumasi have been granted police bail....
Ghanaian Doctor Carries Out Surgery At Kumasi Hospital
A Ghanaian doctor at a hospital in Kumasi, Ashanti Region, Dr. Samuel Amanamah, has successfully carried out Ghana’s first penile implant, here in the country. According to reports from the Peace...
K’si: Police Grab 2 Men With Fake 14,000 Cedis
Two men have been arrested in Kumasi for allegedly dealing in fake Ghanaian cedi currency. Police found on them fake currency amounting to GHC14,000 as well as a machine suspected to be used for the...
Breaking: Gov’t Cancels ‘mining Leases’ Granted Exton Cubic
Government has with immediate effect withdrawn the purported mining leases granted to Exton Cubic Group Limited to mine bauxite deposits at a forest reserve in Nyinahin in the Atwima Mponua District...
About 5,000 Acres of Cocoa Farms To Be Destroyed In Ejisu-Juabeng
Scores of farmers at the communities within the Ejisu-Juaben municipality in the Ashanti Region have mounted a strong protest against the sale of their farmlands by the paramount chief of Ejisu, Nana...
Forest Watch Backs Supreme Court Action Against Exton Cubic
Civil society organisation Forest Watch Ghana (FWG) has backed a move to legally contest the mining right given Exton Cubic Group Limited to prospect for bauxite in the Tano Offin Forest Reserve....
Nyinahini Youth Protest Bauxite Prospecting In Tano-Offin Forest Reserve
Youth groups at Nyinahini in the Atwima Mponua District of Ashanti Region have kicked against bauxite prospecting activities in the Tano-Offin Forest Reserve being carried out by Exton Cubic Group...
Court Sentence Man For Defiling Teenage Daughter
Child Sexual Assault — A 38 year old taxi driver in the Ashanti region has been sentenced by an Accra Circuit Court to two years behind bars after he was convicted of defiling his under 13 year old...
Methodist Church Throws Caution On Towing Levy, Galamsey Fight
The Kumasi Diocese of the Methodist Church-Ghana has admonished the government to hasten slowly in the implementation of the national towing Levy. The Church believes the majority of the citizenry...
See The Donation Made To Veteran Actor By Ghana Actors Guild
The leadership of Ghana Actors Guild has paid a visit to ailing actor and comedian Asonaba Kwaku Darko aka Super OD at his residence at Agona Swedru in the Central Region of Ghana. Super OD is said...
Kotoko Reject GFA Decision
Management of Kotoko has completely rejected a decision by the Disciplinary Committee of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) that the club is to be ducked points for “for failing to obey the...
Kotoko To Suffer Point Deduction For Failure To Obey DC Decision
For failing to obey the enforcement decision of the Discipinary Committee (DC) on the Dauda Mohammed transfer, the DC has directed that Asante Kotoko be deducted points for matches to be played with...
2017 Edition of RTP Awards Launched … Slated For October
adio and Television Personality Awards (RTP), an annual event which recognises outstanding media personalities whose work show exemplary leadership towards building a vision and a future for...
A/R: Court Orders Woman To Be Killed For Poisoning 3-Yr-Old Boy To Death
A 24-year old woman has been sentenced to death by a Kumasi High Court for the murder of a little boy – the only child of his mother. Talata Baana poisoned the three-year boy at Nkawie in the...
GPL Break – the Effects
The enthusiasm and the renewed interest in the Ghana Premier League (GPL) will surely suffer another setback after the announcement by the Premier League Board (PLB) to postpone the league for a...
Injured Kotoko Player Explains Decision To Join Local Black Stars Camp
Kumasi Asante Kotoko striker Sadick Adams says he only had to honour a call-up to pitch camp with the local Black Stars because he had received an invitation he has no control over. Adams was part of...
20-Year-Old Kayayo Killed By Bags of Rice In Ashanti Region
Pathetic! The 20-year-old Kayayo remained under the bags of rice from morning to evening… It is the pathetic story of a 20-year-old Kayayo, Rahinatu Alhassan who serves customers in a shop at Adum,...