Ashanti Today

The Asante Mampong Municipal Director of the National Service, Alfred Agyemang Badu, says there is a discrepancy in the legal interpretation and application of punishments against persons who refuse to undertake the mandatory one year National Service after school.  Speaking to GBC’s Garden City Radio in Kumasi, the Municipal NSS Director wondered why in one breath, the law establishing the NSS clearly forbids the employment of defaulting school graduates from getting formal employment and in another instance, the Constitution is silent on the eligibility of such offenders to hold Ministerial positions or to enter Parliament.  This situation, Mr. Agyemang Badu, noted, is unfair and must be corrected. He noted that every graduate of a Diploma or Degree awarding school is required by the law to undertake the one year National Service.  They include products of both public and private universities, polytechnics, nursing and midwifery schools, colleges of education am

History has been made in  Asanteman as the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu, named and enstooled his eldest sister, Nana Ama Konadu, as the 14 th Asantehemaa.  Nana Ama Konadu, who is in her mid 80s, thus succeeds her late mother, Nana Afia Kobi Serwaa Ampem who passed on to the ancestral world on 14 th November, 2016.  It is said to be the first time in history that a mother and her eldest child and youngest child have ruled Asanteman almost at the same time.  According to Asante’s tradition and custom, the Asantehene has the sole prerogative to choose and install a qualified member of the Oyoko royal family as Asantehenemaa when the Stool becomes vacant.  In this instance, Otumfuo Osei Tutu had less difficulty in selecting a successor for his late mother as Nana Ama Konadu came up as the Eldest daughter of the late Nana Afia Kobi Serwaa Ampem.  Her naming and enstoolment coincided with the 80 th Day Observance of the passing on of Nana Afia Kobi Serwaa Ampem.  By custom

Government says 200 of the pool of vehicles at the Presidency captured in an inventory cannot be accounted for.  For this reason, President Nana Akufo-Addo has now resorted to the use of some of the vehicles procured during the Ghana @ 50 celebrations for official use.  The Acting Communications Director at the Presidency, Eugene Arhin made this known to GBC’s Garden City Radio in Kumasi.  The Presidential Spokesperson noted that since the assumption of office of President Nana Akufo-Addo on January 7 this year, several efforts have been made by the officials to locate the vehicles in question but there have not been any response from officials of the out gone government.  This, according to Mr. Arhin, is part of the reasons compelling the Chief of Staff to constitute a Special Taskforce to locate and retrieve all assets of the state in wrong hands and return same to government chest.  Mr. Arhin said the Taskforce is composed of representatives of some relev