Six people died on the spot at Beahu in the Ahanta West District of the Western Region on Friday when an ambulance collided with a truck. The ambulance is said to be conveying a patient from Dixcove to the Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital. It is unclear what may have caused the deadly accident. Sign up … Read more
Government has begun moves to build an ultra-modern international passenger airport in the Western Region. The move is in line with government’s quest to open up the country to investors and tourists. To this end, government has acquired some 8,000 acres of land at Princess Town in the Ahanta West district. Speaking to Class Business … Read more
Some chiefs and political figures in the country have been cited in a report by the Bureau of National Investigations for involvement in illegal mining. The 31-page report details all the 216 districts in the 10 Regions of Ghana where galamsey is taking place. National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament for Talensi in the … Read more
Ghana Rubber Estate Limited (GREL) as part of its corporate social responsibility has constructed a Health Center worth €200,000 for Abura Township and its adjoining communities in Ahanta West District of the Western Region. The health facility is to complement the old one, which was constructed several decades ago. The Abura Health Center operates out-patient … Read more
Residents of Ewusiejo, a rural community in the Ahanta West District of the Western Region, are reeling under the negative effects of illegal mining upstream. The community is few meters away from Takoradi, the regional capital. The brownish free-flowing Butre River that runs through the area has over the past decades been the main source of water … Read more
The Paramount Chief of the Western Nzema Traditional Area in the Western Region, Awulae Annor Agyei, has said that the New Patriotic Party’s decision to divide the Western Region into two, is needless and will not bring the expected development to the region. According to him, the division will also disintegrate the five ethnic groups … Read more
The Office of the Western Regional Chairman of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has been petitioned over the selection of applicants for the post of District Chief Executive Officer for Ahanta West. The petition, filed by one of the applicants, Abraham Kojo Yalley, said: “I hereby petition your [office] against Ahanta West constituency executives … Read more
Dear Fellow Ahantas, I write to you to you with much love from the Volta Region, precisely Peki, along the eastern corridor stretch. I must admit and say that the best thing that has ever happened to me as a human being is the fact that I am an Ahanta. Ever since I found my … Read more
Chief and people of Samenye in the Jomoro District of the Western Region have celebrated their annual Kundum festival with a call on them to maintain peace before, during and after the December 7, election. Paramount Chief of the traditional area, Nana Amgbo Kofi II, also appealed to his people to conduct their political campaigns … Read more
The political atmosphere in Kwesimintsim is a charged one. Just this Sunday as I walk through the town, I run into a lot of political party supporters going for “keep fits” with brass bands accompanied by loud speakers on vans and pick-ups. The streets are decorated with party flags and giant billboards of both parliamentary … Read more
The Flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akufo-Addo, has promised to build a rubber processing factory in the Ahanta West District of the Western Region if he is voted into office. He made the promise while speaking to the chiefs and residents of Ahanta West as part of his tour of the Western … Read more
Religion is currently the biggest threat to the safety, security and peace of mankind. The world is increasingly becoming a dangerous place to live due to religious intolerance, lack of diversity and pluralism in religious beliefs giving rise to religious sectarianism, extremism and fundamentalism bringing bare to terrorism. Christianity and Islam are chief offenders of … Read more
Arthur Simpson-Kent, the who confessed to killing his East Enders actress girlfriend and their two children before fleeing to Ghana, was yesterday jailed for life by the Old Bailey Court in England. Arthur Simpson-Kent killed Sian Blake, 43 and their sons – Zachary, eight years old and Amon, four – and buried their bodies in … Read more
A young man who paraded himself as an official of the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) met his untimely death yesterday in a reported attempt to extort monies from some teachers in the Ahanta West District of the Western Region. The man allegedly hatched a plan to visit some schools in the district to tell … Read more
One of the major problems affecting the Ahanta personality, his or her mental development and self esteem is inferiority complex particularly among those living in Sekondi-Takoradi and it environs. They feel ashamed to openly admit that they are Ahantas. They have been suffering from chronic inferiority complex for a very long time so they have … Read more
Ahanta simply means the land of twins. Others have varriedly interpretated it have come from “hata” which means to dry oneself after being wet or cold. Ahanta just like all other tribes are also surrounded by myths and legendary. The Ahanta language itself is one of the Akan groups and sub unit of the several … Read more
Tension is mounting at the premises of Diamond Cement Factory at Bokro a farming community in the Ahanta West District of the Western region following the arrest of one of the workers for taking pictures of a colleague who was chopped down by an operating machine. Barnabas Cudjoe was arrested by the Agona -Nkwanta Police … Read more