Ghana

WASSCE 2022: MCE WISHES CANDIDATES IN ABUAKWA NORTH THE BEST OF LUCK.

The Abuakwa North Municipal Chief Executive, Hon Alhaji Umar Bodinga, has wished final-year Senior High School Students in the Abuakwa North Municipality who are writing their final examinations the best of luck. A total number of 3,593 students from 7 public and private institutions are sitting for this year’s Examination in the Municipality. The West African Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (WASSCE), which is both for selection to tertiary institutions and for certification, kicked off on the 1st of August and will span through September 27, 2022. "I am hopeful that you have prepared yourselves very well for the task…
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Man of God Sleeps With 15 Year Old Boy

An evangelist who is known as Pastor Fredrick Darko has defiled a 15 year old boy who lived with him for two years. Discussing the issue on Wontumi Nka Wasem on Friday August 5 2022, the mother of the boy narrated how the incident happened. According to her, she sent her 15 year old son to the evangelist to cast out unclean spirits due to his high level of disrespectfulness and stubbornness. When her son returned home after 2 years, he started falling sick frequently and she also noticed a change in his walking. This triggered her to question her…
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Ashanti NPP Moves To Strengthen Communications Directorate

The Ashanti Regional Communications Directorate is set to launch comprehensive plans and strategies aimed at improving the communications machinery of the party in the region, ahead of the 2024 general elections. The Directorate, headed by Dennis Kwakwa, is reportedly set to enroll the services of hardworking and prominent party personalities to augment publicity and communication department of the party. The party, sources disclosed, is setting up a full communication strategy which will involve various committees to oversee the smooth and effective implementation of the communication and publicity machinery. According to information available, some prominent names may feature in the list…
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VP Bawumia Commissions ZDF Projects In Ashanti Region

Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia has commissioned a number of projects undertaken by government through the Zongo Development Fund (ZDF) in the Ashanti Region. At separate ceremonies at Asokore (Asokore Quranic Islamic School), Effiduase (Hamdaniya Islamic School), both in the Sekyere East District, and at Bantama in the Kumasi Metropolis, Vice President Bawumia commissioned furnished classroom blocks, a water system and a Community Sports and Social Centre as part of his two day visit to the Region. “Zongo communities are indispensable stakeholders in our determination to ensure a comprehensive and inclusive development in Ghana,” Dr Bawumia declared at the commissionings on…
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I Will Work To Ensure Bawumia Is The Next NPP Presidential Candidate- Chairman Wontumi Reveals

The Ashanti regional Chairman for the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr Bernard Antwi Boasiako popularly known as Chairman Wontumi, has revealed what led to his victory, stating that he retained his position as the party’s Regional Chair, after complying by an order given to him by his constituency executives to support Dr. Bawumia’s Presidential bid. Speaking at Effiduase/Asokore constituency where Hon. Nana Ayew Afriyie serves as the Member of Parliament (MP), Chairman Wontumi indicated he can not go against what his people want, adding that Dr. Mahumudu Bawumia, the vice-President of the Republic of Ghana is the person his constituency executives…
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“Payment Of Slavery Reparations To Africa Are Long Overdue” – President Akufo-Addo

The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, says the effects of the Slave Trade have been devastating to the African continent and to the African Diaspora, with the entire period of slavery stifling Africa’s economic, cultural and psychological progress. Speaking at the Reparations and Racial Healing Summit on Monday, 1st August 2022, President Akufo-Addo stressed that reparations for Africa and the African diaspora are long overdue. However, he bemoaned that fact that the subject of reparations “becomes a debate” only when it comes to Africa and Africans. According to the President, when the British ended slavery, all the…
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Bawumia Commissions 100km Of Kumasi Inner City Roads

The Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has commissioned the 100km Rehabilitation and Auxiliary Infrastructure of Kumasi Inner Ring Road and Adjacent Streets Project - Phase 1, for which he cut sod on 13th December, 2019 at Kentenkrono in the Oforikrom Municipality. This brings the total number of kilometers of completed roads constructed by the Akufo-Addo administration since 2017 to 1,180.2. This figure is more than double the 503.44 kilometers of road constructed in the region between 2009 and 2016. The 100km Rehabilitation and Auxiliary Infrastructure of Kumasi Inner Ring Road and Adjacent Streets Project - Phase 1 was undertaken with…
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“$35 Million Dome-Kitase Road To Be Completed In 24 Months” – President Akufo-Addo

The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Friday, 29th July 2022, cut the sod for the construction of the Dome to Kitase Road, which serves as a vital link between the Greater Accra and Eastern Regions. Speaking at the sod-cutting ceremony, President Akufo-Addo noted that the construction of this road has been the subject of promises made by various political parties and successive Governments over the years. “I am happy that it is under the Presidency of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo that the rehabilitation of the Dome to Kitase Road is finally being undertaken,” he said. The…
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VP Bawumia Commissions Ultra-Modern Educational Facility At Tunga Zongo

The Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has, on Wednesday July 27, commissioned a two-story classroom block for the Tunga Zongo Community in Dansoman, Accra. The project, a complete rebuild snd transformation of a dilapidated classroom of Tunga Community Islamic School into a modern facility, was funded by the Zongo Development Fund, the development agency created by the Akufo-Addo Government to ensure inclusive and sustainable development in Zongos and related deprived communities. Speaking at the commissioning of the facility, Vice President Bawumia said investing in such an edifice, and many others across the country, demonstrates government’s resolve and commitment to expanding…
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Exclusion of Tema GJA: Regional Chairmen Call for National Council Meeting

TO: National Executive Committee FROM: Regional Chairmen (Members of National Council) DATE: July 27, 2022 SUBJECT: Exclusion of Tema GJA / Call for National Council Meeting   We ,the undersigned Regional Chairmen of the Ghana Journalists Association, read with utmost surprise a press release issued by the National Executive of the GJA on Tuesday July 26, 2022 and signed by its General Secretary, Mr. Kofi Yeboah, replacing three members of the Association who were properly appointed by the former GJA executives to serve on the National Media Commission and the Public Interest and Accountability Committee.Again, the unilateral decision by the…
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