Ashanti Today

President John Dramani Mahama President John Dramani Mahama has disclosed that a Committee, headed by a health insurance expert, has been commissioned to undertake a comprehensive review of the National Health Insurance Scheme.  The objective is to reposition the Scheme to enhance its sustainability in the midst of the challenges it is currently going through.  The review will as well network the service providers and their care to the subscribers under the scheme to ensure effective monitoring. President Mahama disclosed this during his exclusive interview with GBC’s Garden City Radio in Kumasi.  In the interview which formed part of his two-day working visit to the Ashanti region, President Mahama stressed the fact that the National Health Insurance Scheme is sustainable.  Touching on other issues of socio-economic development, President Mahama was emphatic about the strategic importance of the Ashanti region, particularly the famou...

NDC Members at the Rally The General Secretary of NDC, Johnson Asiedu Nketiah has disclosed that all the biometric voter registers of the party are ready for distribution to all the regions this week.  The registers will first be sent to the Regional offices of the party for onward distribution to the Constituencies and branches.  Announcing this at a rally of the NDC in Kumasi yesterday, the General Secretary explained further, that the party has set aside the next two weeks to exhibit the register and correct all concerns and complaints related to its compilation.  Mr. Asiedu Nketiah entreated all registered members of the party to take active part in the exhibition exercise to enable the party’s functionaries to address their concerns to make it very credible for the upcoming and subsequent party elections.  He said the national executives decided to do away with the Electoral College in the internal election processes of the party w...

the administrative block under rehabilitation At long last, the much talked about defunct GIHOC Fibre manufacturing Company popularly known as the Jute Factory, is to be back in operations very soon.  Ashanti Today can confirm that work is feverishly ongoing towards the revival of the once golden sacks manufacturing company with the first production expected in the first quarter of next year.  It is a public-private partnership with a wholly Ghanaian company, Jute Mills Ghana Limited being the operator and has already sunk about five million Ghana Cedis to revamp the company.  The Jute Factory is located within the industrial area of Kaase.  It has been on divestiture for about 20 years now with successive governments paying lip-service to revamp it.   The old machinery at main factory to be replaced soon  It is one project that is dear to the Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu, who has used almost every opportunity with bus...

The Ashanti region is likely to record a 30 per cent reduction in maize production this farming season.  The foreseeable problem is due to the failed rainfall pattern during the main crop season this year and that the rains in the minor season may not be adequate to compensate for the earlier failed rains. The Ashanti Regional Director of Agriculture, Kwaku Minkah-Fordjuor disclosed this to Ashanti Today on the fringes of the first Ashanti Food Day held at Nsuta in the Sekyere Central district.  The first Ashanti Food Day coincided with this year’s World Food Day.  The event was to bring to the fore, how agriculture, as a means of social protection, could be used to silence rural poverty through the initiative of a payment ecosystem for small scale holder farm communities.  The farmers used the opportunity to showcase what they do best; various food stuffs, animal products and dishes prepared from the produce from their farms.  The...