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  Mr. Ernest Anim-NPP's candidate for the Kumawu Parliamentary 2023 By-Election, addressing journalists after the primaries. Rulling New Patriotic Party, NPP has held its primaries which has chosen one Ernest Yaw Anim from Bodomase as its Candidate for next month's By-election at Kumawu in the Ashanti region.   Mr. Anim polled 195 out of the 419 votes cast to emerge as the winner but was keenly contested by the only female aspirant, Madam Ama Serwaa, who lost the contest with 181 of the valid votes, 18 less than what the eventual winner had. Mr. Anim is a 38-year old  Accountant.   A total of 419 delegates from the 25 Electoral Areas within the Constituency took part in the primaries.   Earlier out of the initial eight aspirants who formally filed their Nomination documents, three, including a former MP for the Constituency,  Mr. Yaw Baah, rescinded their ambitions for various reasons leaving the five who eventually slugged it out at Besore where the polls took place today, Sun

It would be recalled that in July 2022, students of the Islamic Snr High School located at Abrepo in the Bantama Sub Metro of Kumasi went on a demonstration and blocked a portion of the Abrepo Junction-Barekese road. The protest, which later turned violent, was after formal complaints via letters to duty bearer including the Ashanti regional Coordination Council, had failed to get the required response to protect students, staff and visitors to the school located along the road from vehicular knock downs that resulted in injuries to student and staff victims over the years.   In the heat of the demonstration, the students clashed with armed police personnel deployed to protect life amd property when Teargas and rubber bullets were fired at the students. In the end, some of the students and teachers sustained injuries with some of them hospitalized for days. The then Acting Ashanti Regional Police Commander was interdicted as a result. The crux of the protest was that, as a

Mr. Amoako Atta in a group photograph with the traditional leaders after the courtesy call on them The chiefs in the Kumawu traditional area in the Ashanti region have scolded the various NPP governments for neglecting the area in terms of socio-economic development in an apparent ingratitude for the people's continued loyalty to the party. The traditional leaders minced no words in recognizing and appreciating the enormous projects the past NDC regimes have brought in the district even though that party does not enjoy the level of support the NPP continues to get from the inhabitants during elections. The chiefs and a sub queen mother made the point in unison at the private residence of the Omanhene, Sarfo Tweneboa Kodua at Kumawu when the Minister for Road and Highways, Mr. Kwasi Amoako Atta, called on them to introduce JOSHOB as the selected Construction firm to execute construction of the Effiduase-Kumawu-Woraso road as well as 5 kilometres of the Kumawu town roads. The Omanhen

 The ruling New Patriotic Party, NPP has opened Nomination for aspirants for its Candidate for the impending By-Election at Kumawu in the Ashanti region.  The Nomination, which opened Tuesday April 11, will close on Friday April 14 after which the party will vet the aspirants to eventually select its Parliamentary Candidate for the election which date is yet to be fixed by the Electoral Commission.  The by-election at Kumawu has become necessary following the official declaration of the seat vacant by the Speaker of Parliament as a result of the death of the Member of Parliament for the Constituency, Mr. Philip Basoah last month.  The late Mr. Basoah won the Parliamentary elections during the 2020 national polls with a votes tally of 14 thousand, 960 representing 51 point-one percent beating his closest challenger, Mr. kwaku Duah, an Independent Candidate, who had 11 thousand, 698 of the votes representing 39 point-nine-six percent while the NDC's candidate, Mr. Bernard Opoku Marfo

A Virologists with the Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research, KCCR at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Dr. Michael Owusu, has encouraged Ghanaians to be optimistic that the national economy would not collapse, despite the prevailing crisis.  According to him, socio-economic circumstances at both the macro and individual levels currently may be difficult, there is every reason for the citizens to be hopeful that, things would turn around for good especially with the majority of the population being religious with hope for better things at the center of their faith and beliefs.  Dr. Owusu gave the assurance at Aboabo in the Asokore Mampong Municipality of Ashanti at a church service to climax a four-day Easter Convention organized by the Bompata Area of the Pentecost International Worship Centre, PIWC of the Church of Pentecost.  Dr. Owusu, who is also the Presiding Elder of the PIWC Bompata Area, admitted that people are experiencing socio-economic hardships

 NDC APPROVES ALL 85 PARLIAMENTARY ASPIRANTS, 6 UNOPPOSED, 11 CONSTITUENCIES ON HOLD IN  ASHANTI All 85 aspiring Parliamentary Candidates of the opposition National Democratic Congress, NDC vetted for the party’s primaries have been given the green card to contest in the internal elections. Six of applicants have been officially declared Candidates of the NDC in their respective Constituencies after they were unopposed upon the close of nominations and satisfying all the eligibility criteria after their vetting.  The Ashanti Regional Secretary of the NDC, Dr. Frank Amoakohene The Ashanti Regional Secretary of the NDC, Dr. Frank Amoakohene, disclosed this in Kumasi at the end of the regional vetting proceedings. The 85 aspirants were from 36 out of the 47 Constituencies in the Ashanti region. A team comprising both Regional and national officers of the party using a general party Guidelines used three days to scrutinize all the applicants. The aspirants were made up of 71 men and 14 wom

A Senior Nursing Officer at the Church of Christ Mission Hospital in Kumasi, Mrs. Patricia Ataa Adjei, has confirmed that indeed, some hypertension medications could cause impotence in men.  However, there is a remedy for such side effects if the patient would promptly report back to his care giver. More so, BP patients should look beyond sexual performance by prioritizing their health and life and adhere to their medications. According to her, observations made by clinicians over time has revealed that, some men living with Hypertension refuse to take their medications with the fear that, the drugs would render them impotent. Such tendencies, according to the Senior Nursing Officer, lead to worse consequences for such patients with time since their conditions deteriorate after a period. Mrs. Ataa Adjei gave the advice in an interview with ‘Ashanti Today’ at Asokwa near Kumasi after a health education forum. Mrs. Patricia Ataa Adjei, who was one of the Resource Persons, noted th