Asantehemaa’s Body Lies In State
The body of Queenmother of the Ashanti Kingdom has been laid in state The body of late Asantehemaa, Nana Afia Serwaa Kobi Ampem, is to lie in state starting today, Monday, 16 January till her burial...
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Asantehemaa Laid In State At Manhyia [Photos]
The late queen mother of the Asante Kingdom, Asantehemaa Nana Afia Kobi Serwaa Ampem II has been laid in state at the Manhyia Palace. Mourners are expected to file past the body until Thursday when...
Funeral of Asantehemaa Begins Today
Rites to see the late Asantehemaa join her ancestors begin on Monday, January 16 at the Manhyia Palace, the seat of the Asante Kingdom. The four-day rites in Kumasi begin with the laying in state of...
Ashanti Region Gears Up For 4-Day Funeral Rite of Asantehema
The final funeral rites of the longest-serving queen mother of the Ashanti Kingdom, Nana Afia Serwaa Kobi Ampem, has commenced at the Manhyia Palace, Monday. The 4-day ceremony which started at...
Movement Ban Relaxed For Utility Service Providers
The Manhyia Palace has excluded providers of essential services from its ban on movement of persons within Asanteman as part of the funeral arrangements for the late Asantehemaa Nana Afia Kobi Serwaa...
Ban On Movement Lifted For Fire Service, ECG and Water Company Workers
Manhyia Palace exluded utility and essential services providers from the ban on the movement of persons on the night of Thursday January 19, as part of funeral rites of the late Asantehemaa,...
Manhyia Prepares For Grand Funeral of Asantehemaa
Scores of artisans and engineers in various fields are putting finishing touches to renovation works at the Manhyia Palace, the seat of the occupant of the Golden Stool, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, for the...
Kumasi Residents Clean City Ahead of Queenmothers Burial Rites [Photos]
Residents in the Kumasi metropolis today, Saturday thronged the streets to clean the city ahead of burial rites of the late Asante Queen mother. A directive from the Manhyia Palace ordered that all...
Old Age Plays Tricks With The Memory of KB Asante
I am not here to argue pointlessly about whether the letter dismissing the Mahama-appointed Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the former Ghana Cocoa-Marketing Board (CMB), presently renamed Cocobod...
Film Industry Joins Asanteman’s Clean-Up Exercise
The film industry on Saturday joined the clean-up exercise directed by the Manhyia palace ahead of the Final funeral and burial rites of the late Asantehemaa, Nana Afia Kobi Serwaa Ampem II. The...
Kumasi Residents Warned To Stay Indoors For Asantehemaa’s Funeral
The Asanteman Council has announced arrangements for funeral rites of the late queen mother of Asanteman, Nana Afia Kobi Serwaa Ampem II but a warning issued is causing a stir in Kumasi. Residents in...
No Human Sacrifices For Asantehemaa Burial – C’ttee
The Planning Committee for the burial of the late Asantehemaa, Nana Afia Kobi Serwaa Ampem II, has allayed fears of the public concerning human sacrifices during the burial. “We don’t need any...
Mahama Copies Asantehene In Withdrawal Letter Over Bungalow
It appears the immediate past President, John Dramani Mahama, will not have breathing space anytime soon, as controversies surrounding his request to keep a state bungalow as a retirement home, takes...
Mahama Copies Asantehene In Withdrawal Letter Over Bungalow
It appears the immediate past President, John Dramani Mahama, will not have breathing space anytime soon, as controversies surrounding his request to keep a state bungalow as a retirement home, takes...
Kumasi Residents To Stay Indoors Next Thursday
The Kumasi Metropolis will be on a lock-down from 7 p.m. on Thursday, January 19, 2017 till 4 a.m. the next day. Within the period, residents are expected to stay indoors as the body of the late...
President Akufo-Addo Briefed About Asantehemaa’s Funeral
A delegation from the Manhyia Palace yesterday called on the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, to formally inform him about arrangements towards the funeral rites of the late Asantehemaa, Nana...
Manhyia Bans Business Activities For Asantehemaa’s Burial
The Manhyia palace in accordance with the Asante custom has warned residents of Kumasi and its environs to remain indoors between 6pm Thursday the 19th of January and 3am Friday, 20th January as part...
Asanteman Announces Arrangements For Late Queenmother’s Funeral
The Asanteman Council has officially announced the arrangements for the funeral rites of the late Asante Queenmother, Nana Afia Kobi Serwaa Ampem. Speaking at a press conference organized by the...
Carrying Weapons Make Us More Effective In Patrol Duties – Immigration Service
The Ghana Immigration Service says the revision of the Service’s law to allow personnel to handle weapons in the discharge of duty would make enforcement and patrol activities more effective. Until...
Two Ashanti Chiefs Fight Over Mining Town
Otumfuo’s Akwamuhene, Baffour Kwame Akowuah III and the Omanahene (paramount chief) of Manso Nkwanta Traditional Area, Nana Bi-Kusi Appiah are fighting for supremacy over Datano, a community in the...