The Managing Director of Zoomlion Ghana Limited, Mrs. Doris Kwekwor Adjei, has reaffirmed the company’s commitment to Ghana’s sanitation agenda by deploying heavy equipment, personnel and logistics to support a large-scale flood prevention and environmental sanitation exercise across the Ashanti Region. The exercise, held on Saturday, July 4, 2026, was undertaken in collaboration with the […]
As part of activities to mark the 2026 World Milk Day, Ghana’s leading diary brand, Cowbell stormed the Ashanti Region to provide a 10,000 servings of complete breakfast to students drawn from various basic schools within Kumasi under the theme “role of women in dairy and nourishment”. The brand visited schools like T.I Ahmadiyya Basic School, […]
The Health Facilities Regulatory Agency (HeFRA) has shut down 18 health facilities in the Ashanti Region for operating below acceptable standards. The two-day exercise undertaken by officials of HeFRA was part of the agency’s mandate to enforce compliance and promote order within the nation’s healthcare system. The facilities shut down were mostly unregistered, unlicensed by […]
Three Nigerian nationals, noted for stealing from parked vehicles in Kumasi, have heen sentenced to 20 years each in prison in hard labour. They have also been found guilty on other counts and sentenced to additional jail terms of 10 years and eight years. All the sentences are to run concurrently. The Ashanti Regional Police […]
JoyNews has learned that a group of security operatives, who identified themselves as members of the National Security, allegedly attempted to remove five heavy-duty excavators from the office yard of the Ashanti Regional Forestry Commission. According to JoyNews‘ environmental journalist, Erastus Asare Donkoh, who has been closely covering the issue of illegal mining (galamsey) in the country, […]
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 […]
