By Sebastian R. Freiku The Asafo Market Redevelopment project, initiated by the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) with GH¢1 million seed money from the Central government project, has turned in to a death trap due to neglect. The project, which was awarded to TIESO Construction Limited in the New Patriotic Party (NPP) regime, has been abandoned [...]
By Sebastian R. Freiku Stray cattle have added to the increasing spate of vehicular and human traffic in Kumasi of late. These animals cross the roads unannounced, and without any prior warnings, causing accidents and obstructing the movement of vehicles. They race, gallop and trek along the roads, creating panic among women and children. [...]
By Bernice Bessey About 200 police officers, made up of men and women, were freely screened of blood pressure, blood glucose, and their Body Mass Index (BMI) in a nine-hour exercise by the Alive Health Check. Alive Health Check is one of the newly created modules under the Ghana Youth Employment and Entrepreneurial Development Agency [...]
By Bernice Bessey The Director of Procurement Civil Service, Mr. Tett Affotey Walter, has attributed the overspending of the yearly national budget to corrupt practices that associate procurement and tending processes in the country. According to him, public procurement conduct was an issue of national concern, since tending and supply had been tangled with serious [...]
From Issah Alhassan Residents living in and around the Ahenbronum North and Santan electoral areas within the Tafo Constituency would soon heave a sigh of relief from perennial flooding, following the decision of the Ghana Hydro Department of the Ministry of Works and Water Resources to construct two major storm drains to address consistent flooding [...]
From Sebastian R. Freiku The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) would execute more development programmes and projects and infrastructural developments under the 2013 Annual Action Plan with various sources of funding. Mr. Kojo Bonsu, Metropolitan Chief Executive (MCE), announced at the First Ordinary Meeting of the 3rd Session of the assembly last week, that the necessary [...]
From Ernest Best Anane Telecommunications giant Mobile Telecommunication Network (MTN), through its MTN Foundation-Ghana, has constructed and commissioned a GH¢250,000 Maternal/Theatre for the Fomena Health Centre. Mr. James Bukari Basintale, General Manager, Northern Business District, said at the commissioning that the gesture was to help support the training of nursing students at the Fomena Community [...]
From Issah Alhassan The Member of Parliament (MP) for Old Tafo in Kumasi, Dr. Anthony Akoto Osei, has made personal donations of four sets of brand new computers, valued at GH¢3,000, to two basic schools in his constituency. The donations form part of the MP’s efforts at enhancing quality of education through Information Technology in [...]
Stories by Ernest Best Anane Madamfo Ghana Foundation, a Non Governmental Organization (NGO) from Germany, has commissioned a three-classroom block, with an office and store room, and Kindergarten block for the Detieso Community in the Bosome-Freho District of the Ashanti Region. The project was funded by Engagement Global (GIZ) NRW Germany at the cost of [...]
Mr. Kwame Poku Baryeh, a businessman and Assembly Member for the Jamasi East electoral area, has been sworn-in as the new Krontihene of Jamasi in the Sekyere South District of the Ashanti Region, under the stool name Nana Nuamah Poku Mensah II. He succeeds Nana Nuamah I, and has since sworn the oath of [...]