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1 month ago | ghanamma.com | Kwabia Owusu-Mensah

By Kwabia Owusu-Mensah/Samuel Ofori BoatengKumasi March 21, GNA – President John Dramani Mahama, has stressed urgent need to take a critical look at how the country’s markets are planned. “It is time for Ghana to start rethink about how to plan our markets to prevent the reoccurrence of fires”, he stated, during a visit to the devastating fire disaster scene at Adum, the central business district of Kumasi.

1 month ago | ghanamma.com | Kwabia Owusu-Mensah

By Kwabia Owusu-Mensah/Samuel Ofori BoatengKumasi, March 21, GNA – Kumasi, the second largest city in Ghana has experienced one of the most horrific fire disasters in its recent history. No casualty has yet been recorded, but a whole enclave of about three major storey-buildings with many stores and offices, hundreds of container shops, hundreds of stalls and table-top shops, containing merchandise worth millions of Ghana cedis, have been destroyed in the fire.

2 months ago | ghanamma.com | Kwabia Owusu-Mensah

By Kwabia Owusu-Mensah/Samuel Ofori BoatengKumasi Feb. 11, GNA – Unidentified thugs have invaded the Ashanti Regional Coordinating Council, where the council of state elections is taking place destroying ballot papers and election process. They attacked any person on sight, destroyed the ballot boxes, tables, chairs, before and ballot papers in the process. Scores of people, including journalists, have been injured in the disturbances, were carried out in the full glare of security personnel.

Dec 8, 2024 | ghanamma.com | Kwabia Owusu-Mensah

By Kwabia Owusu-Mensah   Adansi Akrofoum (Ash), Dec. 09, GNA – Mr Joseph Azumah, a 36-year-old businessman and the Parliamentary Candidate for the NDC in the 2024 elections, has snatched the Akrofuom constituency seat from the hands of the NPP. Akrofuom has been a known NPP seat in the Ashanti region, since 1996. However, the tsunami that hit the NPP in the 2024 elections did not spare the constituency seat, which had been occupied by the NPP since 1996.

Nov 27, 2024 | ghanamma.com | Kwabia Owusu-Mensah

By Kwabia Owusu-MensahKumasi Nov. 28, GNA – There is no doubt that, Ashanti region will be the epicenter of the December 07, 2024 general elections. The region, traditionally considered as the stronghold of the NPP, has always determined the fortunes of the party and continues to hold it firmly both in presidential and parliamentary outcomes.