Ghana has 16 regions now, but started with just 3 regions. Yes, we had Ashanti, Gold Coast Colony and Northern Territories by 1902. 1956: 4 regions- Ashanti, Gold Coast Colony, Northern Territories and Trans Volta Togoland. 1957: 5 regions- Ashanti (Kumasi), Eastern (Koforidua), Northern (Tamale), Trans-Volta Togoland (Ho), Western (Cape Coast). 1959: Ashanti region split […]
Former corruption advisor to former president John Dramani Mahama, Daniel Batidam is calling for prayers for the country as she goes into the 2020 elections. He is worried that the Jean Mensa led electoral commission did not acquit itself well in the just ended referendum to create the 6 new regions, citing the use of […]
Founder of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Flt. Lt. Jerry John Rawlings says he’s not going to comment on the controversial National Cathedral project until his church, the Roman Catholic Church makes its stance on the project known. According to him, he wouldn’t be caught in a web of confusion where he says something […]
The paramount Chief of Sefwi Wiawso Traditional Area in the Western Region Katakyie Kwasi Bumangama has indicated that the people of the newly created North-Western Region will set aside the 27th of December every year to celebrate their ‘independence day’ following the successful yes vote of 99.58 percent they attained during the just ended referendum […]
Residents of Drobo in the Brong Ahafo region who are grappling with the inconvenience of a curfew that has been imposed on them have threatened to unleash mayhem on the police men who have been assigned to keep law and order in the area and its environs as well as protect them. ‘’How can the […]
Ahead of the siting of regional capitals for the 6 newly created regions, the Minister for Regional reorganization, Dan Kweku Botwe is urging calm from the various interest groups, to allow for the best decisions to be arrived at. According to him, the Ministry is having the benefit of hindsight with the creation of new […]
The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has made a personal contribution of GH¢100,000 towards the construction of the National Cathedral. President Akufo-Addo made the contribution when he launched the National Cathedral Fundraising Campaign, on Friday, 28th December, 2018, at the forecourt of the State House, Accra. Delivering his remarks, the President noted […]
The paramount Chief of Sefwi Wiawso Traditional Area in the Western Region Katakyie Kwasi Bumangama has expressed joy at the attainment of some 99.58 percent ‘yes’ votes in the just ended referendum that automatically paves the way for the creation of the North-Western Region out of the Western Region. According to him, this attainment of […]
Resident of Drobo and its environs in the Brong Ahafo Region have vowed to take the law into their hands and face the police detail that has been posted to the community to ensure law and order and protect them, following the imposition of a dawn to dusk curfew imposed on the community. According to […]
Reliable information available to BestNewsGH.com has revealed that government has already settled on the regional capitals of the 6 newly created regions. In a proposed list available to this website, the North-East region is to have its capital in either Nalerigu or Walewale. The Western North Region will have Bibiani as its regional capital while […]
Contrary to the decision by the Electoral Commission to use its original logo that it reverted to recently in all of its operations, it has emerged that the commission during the just ended referendum for the creation of new regions in the country, resorted to the use of the old accreditation cards with the new […]
The head of the Andani Royal Family, Yoo-Naa Abukari VII, and the Kampakuya-Naa, Yakubu Abdulai Andani, have indicated their readiness and preparedness to hold the funeral of the late Ya-Naa, Yakubu Andani II, from Friday, 4th January, 2019. This was after the Vo-Naa, Mahamadu Bawa, conveyed the message, on behalf of the Andani Royal family, […]
