Ashanti Today

Asiedu Nketia helping to launch the project     The General Secretary of the NDC, Johnson Asiedu Nketiah, has noted that unemployment is not peculiar to Ghana. Rather, it is a global phenomenon afflicting all economies.  According to him, no government anywhere in the world can single-handedly effectively address the social problem for which reason most governments are now relying on business innovative and creative ideas of entrepreneurs to help create job opportunities for the teeming jobless people.  Mr. Asiedu Nketiah said this at a ceremony at Kumtanase to officially open a job-creation project for members of the National Democratic Congress in the Bosomtwe Constituency of the Ashanti region.  The programme which was on the theme: “Creating Sustainable Jobs for the Grassroots;   'The Responsibility of Leadership” is an initiative of the new Executives of the Bosomtwe Constituency of the NDC led by a Livestock and Poultry Specialis...

Mr. Asiedu Nketiah The General Secretary of the NDC, Johnson Asiedu Nketiah has stressed the fact that there is no law in Ghana that bars religious leaders from participating in party politics.  He said by their status in the society, such leaders are considered as the best arbiters and mediators in times of conflicts and upheavals in society.  According to Mr. Asiedu Nketiah however, any religious leader or chief who indulges in partisan politics seriously compromises his or her neutrality and the ability to successfully mediate conflicts as well as their otherwise genuine contributions towards the national discourse.  Mr. Asiedu Nketiah was speaking at ceremony at Kuntanase to inaugurate an income generating project by the Bosomtwe Constituency Executives of the party.     He noted also that, while Ghanaians have religious and political freedom, God frowns on hypocrisy and therefore urged such influential members of the society to re...

The Ashanti Regional Police Command is appealing to the general public to assist it with any information on one Junior and his accomplice who robbed a member of their gang, suspect Augustine Owusu of a Samsung mobile phone, which the latter had stolen from one Madam Susana Owusu at Ohwimase-Kwadaso.  Owusu is reported to have attacked the victim, a trader at gun-point on a walkway behind St. Peter’s school on the 19 th of this month and robbed her of her mobile phone, a cash amount of 100 Ghana Cedis and a purse.  Suspect Owusu sensing danger from some passersby after a failed rape attempt on the victim in a nearby bush bolted, but not with his Nokia mobile phone which he dropped, which had his personal photograph as the screensaver.  Madam Owusu after recovering her purse at the robbery scene lodged an official complaint at the Suntreso Police Station, only for the station to be informed the next morning about a victim who was receiving treatment at the...

The management of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital and the Ghana   Health Service are collaborating for the running of Specialists Medical Clinics at the hospitals in the Kumasi metropolis as part of long-term measures to effectively decongest the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital.     Under the arrangement, senior Physicians of the KATH would be posted to the beneficiary hospitals under the Ghana Health Service to help manage complicated health cases reported there.  The Chief Executive of the KATH, Dr. Joseph Akpaloo made this known at a half-year performance Review Meeting of the hospital in Kumasi.  According to the CEO, when the arrangement is finalized, Senior Physician Specialists will be posted to the hospitals in the Kumasi metropolis to help manage complicated cases to reduce the number of referred cases to KATH. It is a fact that, even though the Ghana Health Service also under the Ministry of Health has a number of healthcare ...

A modern radio tudio The Ashanti Regional office of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation, G.B.C.   today, July 24, 2015, mounted an exhibition of its old and modern radio broadcasting equipment for basic school pupils.  The exhibition which took place at the premises of Garden City Radio was to enable the children and their teachers better appreciate how far radio broadcasting in Ghana has traveled over the 80 year period.  The event formed part of the 80 th anniversary of the founding of Ghana Broadcasting Corporation.  The Regional Technical Head, Madam Alberta Odom took the children and the teachers through the processes of radio transmission from and also showed them the old equipment including the good old ‘Akasano’   GBC Radio One and Two Preset receiver, Reel-to-Reel, Turn Table, the Uher system which Reporters used for recording on the field, and also the gramophone.  They were as well taken through the modern radio t...