Sakora-Wonoo, a farming community near Bonwire in the Kwabre East District in the Ashanti Region, was rendered too small to receive the great number of mourners who thronged the town to mourn the passing of a former General Secretary of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie. As early as 7 a.m. Thursday, […]
Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie, popularly known as Sir John, who died on Wednesday, July 1, 2020, after suffering complications of COVID-19, will be buried on February 25, 2021, according to a release from the Forestry Commission. The release, which was signed by Anne Brown, the Forestry Commission’s Director of Human Resource, indicated that there will be no […]
Veteran Ghanaian actor and stand-up comedian Kofi Adu, popularly known as Agya Koo, has refuted reports that he was involved in a fatal accident over the weekend. The Kumawood actor was reported to have died on Sunday, July 12, 2020, through a motor accident. Reacting to the news, Agya Koo, who spoke to Dave Hammer […]
Tributes are pouring in following the sudden death of the CEO of the Forestry Commission, Kwadwo Owusu-Afriyie. Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, on Wednesday night eulogized the former general secretary of the New Patriotic Party as a man who paid his dues to the ruling party and Ghana at large. Known by many as Sir John, lawyer […]
The former General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and Chief Executive Officer of the Forestry Commission, Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie, popularly known as Sir John, has died. He passed on at the Korle-Bu Teaching hospital at about 9:30pm yesterday. Sir John was admitted at the Korle-Bu Teaching hospital over the weekend with Covid-19 symptoms. […]
Prolific Broadcaster, Captain Smart has revealed how his Uncle, lawyer Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie, popularly known as Sir John stopped his dream of becoming a military man. According to him, Sir John got him removed from the Military Academy after he enlisted to train as a soldier. According Captain Smart who was speaking to Kofi Adomah […]
Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Bernard Antwi Boasiako known widely as Chairman Wontumi appears to be in a haste to see the back of current National Chairman of the party Frederick Worsemao Armah Blay. According to the man who prides himself as the Governor of the Ashanti Region, he is all […]
The Chief Executive (CEO) of the Forestry Commission (FC), Lawyer Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie has admonished the generality of the Ghanaian people to be each other’s keeper even as the country marks death and resurrection of Jesus Christ amid the deadly COVID-19 pandemic. According to the former General Secretary of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), […]
The Forestry Commission (FC) is to take delivery of 1,000 firearms for forest and wildlife guards to combat illegalities across the country’s forest and wildlife protected areas. The firearms will enable the guards to protect themselves and also repel the frequent attacks on them by some unscrupulous people, including illegal chainsaw operators and poachers. The […]
The Chief Executive Officer of the Forestry Commission, Mr. Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie has lampooned the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament for Builsa South Constituency, Clement Apaak, for what he says is the MP’s hypocritical approach the fight against the harvesting and export of rosewood timber in the country. According to Sir John […]
Chief Executive Officer of the Forestry Commission, Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie, popularly known as Sir John says the bones that former president John Mahama spoke about when he made reference to the bad economic situation the country had been grinded into powder and used to prepare Tuo Zaafi. According to him, that is what accounts for […]
The Chief Executive Officer of the Forestry Commission (FC) Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie says the fight against illegal Mining, popularly known in the local parlance as galamsey is being inhibited by machinations of some powerful people in the country. Such moves according to him, makes it extremely difficult to rid the country’s forest reserves of illegal […]
