A 26-year-old woman has stabbed her boyfriend to death for allegedly cheating on her. The deceased, Fred Kojo Nyame was stabbed in the chest, neck, arms, and forehead. The incident happened at Esiama, a community near Nkroful in the Ellembelle District of the Western Region. Narrating the incident, the Assemblyman of the area said a […]
The National Organiser of the ruling New Patriotic Party, Sammi Awuku today Tuesday, June 4 2019, began a tour of fishing communities in the Western Region ahead of the 2020 elections. Together with some regional party executives and the Municipal Chief Executive, Mr. Awuku toured and interacted with the fishermen with the main aim of […]
The Takoradi Habour Marine Police have arrested two fishermen from New Takoradi for flouting the closed-season ban which took effect on Wednesday 15th May 2019. Confirming the arrest to Citi News, the Marine Police Commander, ACP Seidu Iddi said the community members arrested the two suspects and took them to the Chief Fishermen’s house before the police […]
Mobile Telecommunications giant MTN has launched the 2019 edition of Twin CityFest in the Western Regional Capital of Takoradi. The launch coincides with the launch of other regional festivals across the country in the various regions and has been a prominent feature in the calendar of Ghana’s number one telecommunications company since 2011. In his […]
Police at Sefwi-Asawinso are on the heels of suspected money ritualists who dumped a coffin containing a human head at the town’s lorry station about a few days ago. BestNewsGH.com sources report that the police have since the incident made frantic efforts to identify, locate and apprehend the culprits who are still at large. According […]
A bizarre spectacle was witnessed by the people of Sefwi Asawinso in the Western region when they woke up to a coffin containing a human head and other things suspected to be for ritual purposes. The coffin and the human head were found by the residents at the town’s lorry station in the morning of […]
From Zambaga Rufai SAMINU, Takoradi Government has expressed concern about the growing spate of chieftaincy disputes in the country. Prior to assumption of office by President Nana Akufo–Addo’s administration, the country recorded 532 chieftaincy disputes across the country. Figures from the Ministry of Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs indicate that these were the documented cases identified […]
The opposition National Democratic Congress Member of Parliament for Bia East Constituency in the Western Region, Richard Acheampong has accused the Speaker of Parliament, Professor Mike Oquaye of refusing to admit pictures of bad roads he took from his constituency as evidence of the poor nature of the road network in the area because he […]
Wassa East local economy has been boosted with the construction of a 20 million dollar state of the art oil palm processing factory which is expected to be completed by the scheduled time of July 2019. Construction workers mostly local people from the community are being led by Malaysians and Indonesians with the civil works […]
Former Minister for Gender, children and social protection in the erstwhile John Dramani Mahama administration, Nana Oye Lithur is pushing for special initiatives from Members of Parliament to cater for the needs of the aged in the respective constituencies. The Minister who was reacting to the construction of the AYA community centre by the former […]
Secretary to the inter-ministerial committee on small scale mining, Charles Bissue has revealed that some 1,600 excavators have so far been uncovered at mining sites in the Central, Western and Ashanti regions. Of the number, the Central and Western regions account for 1,200, while the Ashanti region accounts for 400, with more to be discovered […]
The Joint Military-Police taskforce against illegal chainsaw operations have retrieved a mind boggling 15 thousand pieces of processed wood and 118 chainsaw machines from some 37 illegal chainsaw operators in the Sehwi-Wiawso and Juaboso areas of the Western region. These came to light when the Chief Executive Officer of the Forestry Commission, Mr. Kwadwo Owusu […]
