Residents of Kansaworado, a farming community in the Essikado Ketan constituency of the Western Region, are calling on the Ghana Police Service to provide security for their goats and other livestock. Though rearing of goats is not the mainstay of the people, most of the residents are engaged in livestock as supplement. According to the … Read more
High-flying Karela FC will be without in-form first choice goalkeeper Isaac Hagan for three months, head coach Johnson Smith has confirmed. Hagan is suspected to have suffered a broken his palm when the Nzema Ayinase side beat Hearts of Oak 3-1 at home on Wednesday. He had to be replaced in the second half after … Read more
The Motor Transport and Traffic Directorate of the Ghana Police in the Western Region has moved to ensure accident Easter this year in the region, which records high numbers of road accidents during the season. Officers from the MTTD hit the streets Wednesday to sensitize some commercial drivers in the Sekondi/ Takoradi Metropolis to adhere … Read more
National President of the Technical University Teachers Association of Ghana (TUTAG), Dr Solomon Abakah Keelson, has reiterated calls for government to prioritize technical education that is considered the solution to the country’s unemployment problem. Dr. Keelson who has just assumed office together with five other national executives for the Association told Takoradi-based Connect FM the … Read more
Government has partnered a local company to establish a factory in the Western Region to produce charcoal from palm kernel for export. The factory, to be sited within the Prestea Huni Valley municipality, is expected to generate revenue for the assembly and create jobs for the people in the area. Municipal Chief Executive for the … Read more
A seeming conflict among executives of the New Patriotic Party in the Western Region took a dramatic turn Monday morning when one of the two factions in the party broke into the office of the regional Secretary, Charles Bissue, to change the locks. A source at the party’s regional office told Takoradi-based Connect FM that … Read more
Residents to use demo to push Sekondi royal family to enstool chief for the town Some residents of Sekondi in the Western Region are agitating over a long standing chieftaincy dispute in the area which has over a decade impeded the royal family from enstooling a substantive chief for the town. The paramountcy has been … Read more
The Police in the Twifo-Ati Mokwa District have commenced investigations into how the security detail of the MP for the area allegedly inflicted serious cutlass wounds on four persons during the New Patriotic Party’s constituency executive elections. The attack, according to the victims, was prompted by the defeat of a candidate the MP, Abraham Odoom, … Read more
Sensational and promising Takoradi-based singer, Afezi Perry, has been asked to render an apology in writing to the board of the Western Music Awards for asserting that he did not recognize the Awards. The rap artiste in an interview on Oil City Mix on Connect FM in November, 2017 said he did not recognize the … Read more
Karpowership Ghana Company Limited has held a series of stakeholder engagements with various community groups within the Sekondi and Takoradi municipality. The aim of the engagement sessions was to sensitize stakeholders in the areas about the operations of Karpowership and its contribution to communities. According to the Company’s Corporate Communications Specialist, Sandra Amarquaye, the engagement … Read more
Mentally ill persons have taken over the streets of Sekondi-Takoradi metropolis in the Western Region, raising concerns about the safety of pedestrians and road users. Residents say one is likely to find a lunatic roaming the streets within every 100-metre interval, noting the activities of these mentally deranged persons had become a nuisance to them … Read more
The Western Regional Office of the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) continue to record high rates of non-maintenance of children in some districts. Nana Jomfoah Amua-Sekyi, CHRAJ Regional Director, who made this known to the Ghana news Agency (GNA) in an interview in Takoradi, said last year the Enchi district recorded the … Read more
Mr Ernest Kofi Owusu-Bempah, Communication Director of Ghana National Gas Company (Ghana Gas ) has lauded the efforts of the local engineers of the company for a successful shut down of the Atuabo Gas processing Plant. He said the 21-day shutdown which began on February 1, was already in progress but the company had not … Read more
Mr Kobby Okyere Darko-Mensah, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Takoradi, has said government intends to build more airports in the Western and Central Regions. The move, he said, forms part of measures to create an enabling environment for tourism and business to thrive. Mr Darko-Mensah, who doubles as the Deputy Minister for Aviation, said … Read more
A floating headless body, suspected to be that of a man, has been retrieved from the Kwamaa River at Asankragua in the Wassa Amenfi West District of the Western Region. The decomposed body was discovered by some young women floating in the river on Sunday at a point near a refuse dump. A local reporter … Read more
Mr Ernest Kofi Owusu-Bempah, Communication Director of Ghana National Gas Company(Ghana Gas ) has lauded the efforts of the local engineers of the company leading to the successful shutdown of the Atuabo Gas processing Plant. He said the 21 day shutdown which began on February 1, was already in its 10th day but the company … Read more
The body of the 12-year old boy who was beheaded at Bogoso in the Prestea Huni Valley District of the Western Region has been retrieved three days after the incident that shocked the region. His body was lying prostrate in his school uniform in a cassava farm behind some building blocks, with his backpack still strapped … Read more
The lives of patients requiring emergency transportation from one health facility to the other in the Western Region are in danger as the only ambulance serving the region has been involved in an accident. Stakeholders fear the situation could negatively affect healthcare delivery in the region if immediate steps are not taken to provide ambulances … Read more
A tanker explosion that was caused by repair works has killed two persons and injured two others at Baku near Atuabo in the Western Region. Driver of the truck, 47-year-old Eklu Agbormegah from Ashaiman told Police he took the tanker with the number registration GN 6228-14, to a mechanic shop for a faulty part to … Read more
The Western Regional Command of Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) repatriated hundreds of illegitimate foreign nationals from the region, a senior officer has said. Speaking on the sidelines of the Service’s end-of-year dinner and awards night in Takoradi, the Western Regional Commander, Deputy Commissioner of Immigration (DCI) Dr. Prosper Asima mentioned that due to some unapproved … Read more