Ashanti Today

The Ghana Heath Service is to introduce a new vaccine into the routine immunization throughout the country at every health facility on the first of next month.   The new vaccine is Inactivated Polio Vaccine, IPV, which is to be given to every child for extra protection.  At a media briefing in Kumasi, the Deputy Ashanti Regional Director of Health Services in charge of Public Health, Dr. Kwasi Yeboah-Awudzi explained that the IPV is an injection which will be administered on the right thigh of the child at 14 weeks after birth.  This will be alongside the Oral Polio Vaccine, Pentax.  He indicated that IP Vaccination is a critical step towards achieving a lasting polio-free country.   Dr. Yeboah-Awudzi said the vaccine is also safe and effective whether given alone or in combination with other vaccines, adding that it is being used in over 60 countries worldwide.  According to Dr. Yeboah-Awudzi, some children may react mildly to the vaccine. Commonest among the s

Government is in talks with the Ghana Catholic Bishops Conference and other religious groups in the country for a possible signing of an Agreement for the eventual handing over of mission schools to the religious organizations for management and control.  The Association of Catholic Teachers, ACT, a faith-based teachers’ organization, which made this known in a Statement released at the weekend, has therefore pledged its full support for the negotiation and suggested that in the interim, a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, be entered into by the parties ahead of the final handing over and taking over Agreement.  The Statement was released at the end of the 3 rd National Coordinating Meeting of the Association held on the theme: “A Call to Leadership”, at the Sacred Heart Cathedral Parish of the Navrongo-Bolgatanga Diocese of the Catholic Church.  It was jointly signed by the National Coordinator, William Boakye Baafi, and the Navrongo-Bolgatanga Diocesan Secretary of ACT

A State burial rite has been organized for the late astute industrialist and politician, Akenten Appiah-Minkah in Kumasi in recognition of his contribution to national development.  Among the large crowd of mourners and well-wishers at the rites were President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, his Vice, Alhaji Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia and former President, Mr. John Agyekum Kufuor.     The Man Nana Akenten Appiah-Minkah Born some 84 years ago the late Nana Kenten Appiah-Minkah, who hailed from Aboabogya in the Afigya Kwabre district of Ashanti, was famous for his entrepreneurial acumen, active partisanship, patriotism and statesmanship.  Born four months after the death of his father, the late Nana Akenten Appiah-Minkah had his formal education at the Aboabogya Methodist Primary school, Adisadel College in Cape Coast and the Abuakwa State College in the Eastern region and later had his Advanced Level Certificate at the North Western Polytechnic at Kentish Town in the United Kingd

The Ghana National Chamber of Licensed Banker to Banker Lotto Operators and Agents has accepted the One million Ghana Cedi License Fee charged on Private Lotto Operators by the National Lottery Authority Board.  The Executive Chairman of the Chamber, Frank Adjei, who made this known at a press conference in Kumasi, announced that operators who cannot pay their license fee could join the Chamber to work together.  He commended the Director-General of the National Lottery Authority, Kofi Osei-Ameyaw for taking pragmatic steps to register and license the Operators, Agents and Writers of Banker to Banker Lottery under the Public-Private Partnership in accordance with the National Lotto Act of 2006, Acts 722.  Mr. Adjei assured that the Chamber is ready to partner with the National Lottery Authority and succeeding governments to create jobs and maximize revenue for socio-economic development.  On the other hand, the Chamber has raised concerns about some Nigerians, Chinese

The Chief Executive Officer of the National Youth Authority, Emmanuel Asigri has cautioned the youth who get enrolled on the Authority's Digital Marketing training programme to avoid acts that can affect and jeopardize the sustainability of the programme.  He gave the caution at the graduating ceremony of the first batch of 355 trainees from the Ashanti region in the Youth Training in Digital Marketing programme at Ahinsan in the Asokwa municipality of the Ashanti region.  The Youth-In-Online Digital Marketing Entrepreneurship programme is aimed at equipping the youth with skills to make them self-employed.  Each of the 10 regions have been given an average slot of 300 youths aged between 18 and 35 years with a basic appreciation of Internet and social media, to be trained under the programme for a period of three months. He noted that government through the National Youth Authority purchased three thousand laptops to cater for all trainees across the country unde

  The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority, DVLA, is in partnership with the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, to curtail vehicular emission into the atmosphere to address the problem of environmental pollution in the country.  The collaboration focuses on gathering data about the seriousness of the problem after which the EPA will set the benchmark for the permissible emission levels for any vehicle presented for certification by the DVLA for the issuance of road worthy certificate.  The Chief Executive Officer of the DVLA, Akwasi Agyemang Busia, disclosed this in Kumasi.  He was addressing workers of the Authority at the Kumasi office as part of a working tour of members of the company’s Board of Directors.  They had already visited the offices at Obuasi, Bekwai, Mampong, Agona and Offinso to learn at first hand, the working environment there. In Kumasi, the Board members were briefed on the operations and the associated challenges by the Regional Manager, Edm

The Ashanti Regional Coordinating Council and the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly, KMA, have jointly donated a quantity of food items valued at thousands of Ghana Cedis to support Muslims in Kumasi during the month of Ramadan.  The donation also involved an amount of cash to be disbursed among various identifiable groups within the Muslims community.  The items were made up of 100 bags of rice, 50 bags of sugar, 50 boxes of cooking oil, boxes of tea bags, cartons of milk and Milo.  The Kumasi Metropolitan Chief Executive, Osei Assibey-Antwi, who made the presentation on behalf of the Ashanti Regional Minister, Simon Osei-Mensah, explained that the month of Ramadan remains a very important pillar in Islam.  It is during this month that all committed Muslims deny themselves of food and drinks while re-dedicating themselves to prayers.  Mr. -Assibey-Antwi urged the leadership of the Muslims Community to use the period to intercede for national unity, peace and developme

It was all tears, wailing and lamentation as a memorial service has been held at the Osei Kyeretwie Senior High School at Tafo in the Ashanti region in honour of the late Master Godfred Arthur, the final year student who was murdered by intruders to the school last week.  Among patrons of the Memorial Service were the Deputy Minister in charge of Pre-Tertiary Education, Dr. Osei Yaw Adutwum and relatives of the late student. The Victim Seventeen year old Master Godfred Kobina Arthur, was admitted to the Osei Kyeretwie Senior High School at Old Tafo in the Tafo Municipality of Ashanti in November 2015 where he was pursuing General Arts.  He met his untimely death on Wednesday, the 9 th of this month. He was stabbed twice in his neck by a member of a gang of armed robbers who invaded the school’s premises at about 10 pm on that fateful day causing him to bleed profusely and subsequently gave up the ghosts at a private hospital at Pankrono. Unfortunately, the late Mas

The Chiefs and people of Ninting in the Mampong Municipality of Ashanti have thanked the Ashanti Regional Minister, Mr. Simon Osei-Mensah, the Ghana Highways Authority and the Ashanti Today for the intercessory roles they played in responding to calls for the erection of speed ramps in the town to control the speed of vehicles to save lives of residents and visitors.  Speaking to Ashanti Today, the Head of the Ninting Royal Family, Nana Adu Asare, said following the distress calls by the people using various strategies including a broadcast by the Ashanti Today, the Ghana Highways Authority last Friday, May 11, dispatched its workers to the town to build concrete speed ramps at strategic portions of the main Kumasi-Mampong road.  According to Nana Adu Asare, it took the GHA staff up to about 11 pm on the day in question to fix the problem without taking any money from the chiefs and people.  He commended the Regional Minister for acting swiftly on a petition by some cit

Ashanti Today's checks in the Ejura-Sekyedumase Municipality of Ashanti has proven that there is enough maize available on the open market for public and industrial consumption.  The problem, however, is the deliberate hoarding by some individuals to create artificial shortage of the commodity with the intention of stimulating price hikes. Some aggregators and farmers are asking the government not to import maize in order not to cause a maize glut in the system and compromise the price of the commodity. The issue There have been speculations from across the country in the last few days about purported shortage of maize on the market with poultry farmers crying out the loudest.  The concerns of the local poultry farmers stem from the fact that feed for their birds are mainly maize based and that a shortage of the product has a dire consequence on their production and also the cost of poultry and poultry products. Ejura in National Food Production The Ejura-S

Police in the Ashanti region have arrested two persons in connection with the murder of a student of the Osei Kyeretwie Senior High School. The deceased.  Godfred  Arthur, 17, who is a final year Arts student was scheduled to write the Integrated Science Paper as his final Paper today in the ongoing West Africa Secondary Schools Certificate Examination, WASSCE, at the OKESS Exam Centre in the Tafo Municipality. The late Master Godfred Arthur aged 17 is an Arts student of the Osei Kyeretwie Senior High School, OKESS, in the Tafo Municipality.  The final year boarding  student was one of the many candidates presented by OKESS for this year’s  WASSCE.  He was preparing to write his final Paper in the exam this morning and  was therefore leaving his boarding house for private study in the classroom last night  when he was attacked by suspected robbers in the corridor of the boarding house. Pieces of information gathered by GBC24 indicate that the s