Ashanti Today

Local churches within the Asante Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana have been encouraged to develop strategies to make them self-sustaining and reducing their dependency on tithes and offerings.  The Asante Presbytery Chairperson, Reverend Kofi Amfo-Akonnor shared this thought at the 94 th Asante Presbytery in Kumasi.  To ensure the well being of church members, Rev Amfo-Akonnor urged all districts under the Presbytery to put in place functional, well-equipped, properly trained health committees to see to the health needs of members.  On women empowerment, the Presbytery Chairperson requested the Ecumenical and Social Relations Departments to help all the 36 districts within the presbytery to establish district conferences.  Rev. Amfo-Akonnor suggested also that Presbyterian women be given the opportunity to work together with other religious groups to empower themselves as well as to broker dialogue and peace in the Ashanti region. ...

Government has been urged to revamp the Obuasi mines to sustain the livelihood of the people and the entire national economy.  Speaking at a news conference at Fomena in the Adansi North district of Ashanti, the Spokesperson for a group calling itself Concerned Adansi Forum, Enoch Anhwere Afoakwa in a statement appealed to government to as a matter of urgency put measures in place to restore the mine onto the path of prosperity and profitability not exceeding the two-year period granted by the government to undertake care and maintenance of the mine.  The statement also urged government to allow the state security currently deployed to protect the Obuasi mine and its installations to carry out their legally mandated duties without any shred of fear or favour and devoid of any political interference.  The Concerned Adansi Forum also asked stakeholders particularly government to regularize 60 percent of the ceded AngloGold Ashanti Limited concession to those in the s...

A total of 836 recruits under the Community Police Assistants module of the Youth Employment Agency have passed out from a six-week training at the Ashanti Regional Police Training School in Kumasi.  They are made up of 423 from the Ashanti region, with the remaining 413 to be deployed to the Brong Ahafo region.  Also, the recruits were made up of 609 males as against 227 females.  They underwent training in First Aid, Traffic Management, the Law of Evidence, Report Writing among other subjects.     The Kumasi recruits represent 26 point-six-nine per cent of the total recruits under the module nationwide.  The Brong Ahafo Regional Director of the Youth Employment Agency, Joseph Holison who read the Agency’s address, disclosed that nearly 27 thousand persons applied for recruitment into the Community Police Assistant module nationwide.  However, only three thousand, 180 of them were recruited for some reasons.  A...

Two persons in Kumasi in the Ashanti region have been arrested by the Police for allegedly indulging in malpractices in the ongoing West African Secondary Schools Certificate Examination, WASSCE being written by final year Senior High School students.  The Police,   together with the WAEC office in Kumasi, are on the heels of the Headmaster of the Ascension SHS and another Teacher named as Collins said to be very instrumental in the malpractice.  The arrest was done in connection with the writing of the English Literature yesterday, Wednesday April 8, at the Opoku Ware Girls Senior High Technical School exam Centre near Kumasi.  The Centre is hosting candidates from two schools. These are those from the same school and those from the Ascension Senior High School, a private second cycle school near the Sawua Junction also near Kumasi.    They, together with two other persons from the same school who are being pursued by the Police and ...

The Concerned Youth of Asante has strongly condemned participants of yesterday, Wednesday's demonstration in Kumasi dubbed “Baamu Yaada” for allegedly attempting to invade the Adum Stool House where the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu, was performing a customary rite.  The Asantehene, in tandem with Asante custom, visits the Adum Stool House to perform certain rituals on the sacred Wednesday or ‘Awukudai’ which coincided with the street protest.  The demonstration was organized jointly by the Ashanti Regional office of the NPP and its affiliate pressure groups such as ‘Let My Vote Count Alliance’ and   the ‘Movement for Change’ to pressurize the Electoral Commission to clean the Voters’ Register before the November Presidential and Parliamentary elections.  In the course of the protest march and on reaching the Adum Stool House, some of the protesters allegedly tried to veer into the House for no apparent reason and it took the Asantehene’s personal se...