The Ashanti region in 2024 witnessed a significant surge in cancer cases, with a total increase of 4,553, which is 33.60% more cases in 2023. With breast cancer cases escalating dramatically by 92.12%, cervical cancer also showed a substantial increase of 75.17%, but in contrast, prostate cancer cases decreased by 17.55% during the same period. […]
Students in both public and private schools in Obuasi in the Ashanti region will miss classroom hours amidst tensions in the gold mining town for the next two days. Some illegal miners in the community clashed violently with military personnel when they allegedly breached the security fence at one of the mining concessions of AngloGold […]
Kennedy Agyapong, NPP Member of Parliament for Assin Central Constituency on Tuesday joined Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, the New Patriotic Party’s 2024 flagbearer, on his campaign tour of Suame –reinvigorating the political mood in the Ashanti Region According to an official statement, the “charismatic MP made a grand entrance in Suame, a key industrial and commercial hub in Kumasi, thus, significantly boosting the morale of the party’s supporters.” “The electrifying presence of […]
The Ashanti Regional office of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has attributed power outages in some parts of the region to the vandalisation of the company’s pylons at Ejisu. A number of communities in the region, including Bekwai, Awiankwanta, Kumawu, Antoakrom, Manso Nkwanta, Jacobu Samfo-Aduam, Onwe, Besease, Asotwe, Abankro, Baworo, and its surrounding areas […]
Founding Members of the New Patriotic Party in the Ashanti Region have denied media reports that they have endorsed the candidature of Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto in the party’s flagbearer race. According to them, the reports are untrue and should be disregarded by the party faithful. In a press statement issued on Wednesday, August 8, […]
An explosion has occurred at the Kumasi Shoe Factory located at Atonsu-Agogo in the Ashanti region. A gas tanker discharging fuel at the company reportedly caught fire resulting in the explosion. The area has been cordoned off by Police as firefighters battle the flames. Eyewitnesses say the tanker was discharging gas into the company’s cylinder […]
The Ashanti Regional Minister, Simon Osei-Mensah, says the asphalted road which has been blocked by a private developer was illegally constructed; hence, the developer cannot be stopped from continuing his project. According to him, an interaction he had with the Regional Lands Officer disclosed that the developer has full access to the area, saying no […]
The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II has called on the Ministry of Energy and power-producing agencies to expedite efforts at curbing the power crises in the Ashanti Region. He said the erratic power supply, which has become rampant, is impacting adversely on the lives of the people in the region, including himself and his household. […]
The President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Tuesday, August 17, 2021 cut the sod for the commencement of the construction of the Trede District Hospital in the Atwima Kwanwoma district of the Ashanti Region. The ceremony formed part of the Agenda 111 to construct 101 district hospitals in districts without district hospitals, two psychiatric hospitals […]
The Ashanti Regional Police Command has arrested sixteen (16) women who allegedly print fake currency in the region. A statement from the Police said: “All the suspects are females and are between the ages of 17 and 40.” The statement said an amount of GHS24,000 fake currency were retrieved from the suspects and are currently […]
The Ashanti Region recorded the highest number of government employees on payroll with the numerical strength of 93,342, according to the Auditor General’s Department Report on Nationwide Payroll. This is followed by the Greater Accra Region with staff strength of 79,116. The Eastern Region placed third with 58,997 public sector employees on payroll. The Brong […]
At a time when all law abinding citizens are adhering to government’s directives regarding the Coronavirus COVID-19, the Headmaster of Parkoso Senior High School seems to be in a different world all together. The Headmaster, Paul Kingsley Arthur in a query letter to teachers of the school and sighted by BestNewsGH.com, asked the affected teachers […]
