Ashanti Today

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo today, Sun, April 30, joined the Paramount Chief of Asante Juaben, Nana Otuo Serebuor, at a special thanksgiving church service in appreciation to God for the appointment of the Juabenhene as a Member of the Council of State and also for his election to Chair the Council.  In a remark, President Akufo-Addo expressed confidence in the membership of the current Council of State to competently discharge their Constitutional mandate in honesty and frankness in the interest of the state.  President Akufo-Addo was particularly satisfied with the choice of Nana Otuo Serebuor as the Chairman considering his depth of experience having served two terms of eight years as a Member of the Council during the previous NPP government.  The Paramount Chief of Juaben, Nana Otuo Serebour, was a two Member of Council of State constituted by former President Kufuor during his term as President.  He has also served on a numbe...

One of the candidates highly tipped to be nominated as the Ejisu-Juaben Municipal Chief Executive, Kwaku Twumasi Nti, says even though he, just as his supporters, is disappointed that his contender was chosen ahead of him for the position, he has not lost hope yet as there could be many more other important opportunities in the future for him.  The 40-year old self-employed physically disabled man contested with the Ashanti Regional Women Organizer of the NPP, Mary Serwaa Derkye who was eventually favoured to become the next MCE for Ejisu-Juaben.  Speaking to Ashanti Today in Kumasi, Mr. Nti noted that he has already impressed upon his agitated supporters to accept the President’s nomination and offer her their support in the interest of Madam Derkye when she is approved by the Municipal Assembly.  Mr. Nti, who lost his job in the British Army after surviving a road accident in 2004, said days before the official announcement of the MMDCE nominees by the...

Construction of a Nursing and Midwifery Training College is to begin this year at Mpatuam in the Amansie West district of Ashanti to expand access to nursing and midwifery training in the country.  The project, to be jointly funded by the MP for Manso Nkwanta, Joseph Quarm and his business partners at a cost of 40 thousand Dollars, is to augment government’s efforts at improving manpower development for the health sector.  The MP announced this at a town hall meeting with his constituents at Manso Nkwanta, the district capital. It was the first time the MP was meeting to interact with his constituents since his assumption of duty in January this year.  He used that opportunity to update the people on the efforts he has since been making to speed up the district’s socio-economic development.  Mr. Quarm noted that the nursing and midwifery training school will admit about two thousand students in the first year to serve also as an avenue for the se...

The Paramount Chief of Kwaman in the Sekyere Central district of Ashanti, Nana Abayie Ntori Nimpa, has made an urgent call on financial investors, especially citizens of Kwaman, to patronize shares being offered for sale by the Kwamanman Rural Bank so as to sustain the bank in business.  Making the appeal at a community durbar at Kwaman, Nana Abayie Ntori Nimpa noted that the bank, owned by the Community, could lose ownership of the bank if it is not able to raise its minimum stated share capital to the new requirement of the Bank of Ghana.  According to him, the Central Bank has served notice to cause a merger of any Rural or Community bank that is unable to raise its existing share capital to more than one million Ghana Cedis by the end of this year with financially well established ones as part of the Bank of Ghana’s stringent measures to protect the interest of shareholders.  Nana Abayie Ntori Nimpa disclosed that Kwamanman Rural Bank, with its headqu...

A Deputy Minister of Food and Agriculture, George Oduro says middle level agricultural training holds the key to enhanced agricultural productivity in the country.   He said government recognizes agricultural extension as an integral part of its policies for the sector but was worried that for many years, there has been a shortfall in the number of such middle level manpower thereby widening the Extension Agent-farmer ratio.  Mr. Oduro made the statement in Kumasi at the 7 th congregation of the three Colleges of Agriculture under the mentorship of the University of Cape Coast.  These are the Kwadaso, Ohawu and Pong-Tamale Colleges of Agriculture that offer Diploma in General Agriculture and Animal Health and Production.  It was on the theme: “Effective Middle Level Agricultural Training, the Key to the Transformation and Modernization of the Country’s Agriculture”.     A total of 248 students graduated with 28 of them attain...