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FREDRICK ADUSA DONATES TOWARDS BEREKUM OMANHEMAA DVLA PROJECT. The much anticipated DVLA project championed by Omanhemaa of Berekum, Nana Akosua Ameyaahene III has been suspended for a while now due to lack of funds. The project which started almost three years ago when completed will accommodate DVLA officials to fully operate in Berekum.  Mr Frederick Adusa, a native of Berekum who is based in the United States of America on Tuesday 29th June, 2021 visited the project site and afterwards donated an undisclosed amount to support an ongoing project.  He promised to incur the cost of painting the office which is at 80% completion. Speaking to Alrich24news.com, Mr Frederick Adusa explained that, operation of the office will boost economic growth in Berekum aside from the primary functions of the office. Nana Akosua Ameyaahene III, receiving the donations thanked Mr Adusa for his contribution towards the project and appealed to other individuals, stakeholders and organisations to...

The President of the Republic of Ghana, Nana Addo Danqua Akufo Addo on Tuesday 29th, June, 2021 Commissioned Toyota Vehicle Assembly plant. Nana Addo Danqua Akufo Addo in his speech commended the company for their bold decision to embrace Ghana's economy to start assembling toyota and Suzuki vehicles in the country.  According to the President's this is a promise fulfil to make Ghana an industrialisation hub in the West Africa sub-region to boost the growth of the economy. Hon. Alan Kwadwo Kyeremateng, the Minister of Trade and Industry also added that, the company will help produce skill and unskilled labourer to the Ghanaian public and as such the plant will promote matrials distribution from other sectors.  The commissioning ceremony took place at the Toyota Tsusho Manufacturing Co. Ltd premises at the Freezones Enclave in Tema to assembly Toyota and Suzuki Vehicles in Ghana.

National Population and Housing Census 2021, Today Sunday 27th June, 2021 Marks the Census Night. The Ghana Statistical Service will be deploying its enumerators to capture details of travelers, people in guesthouses or hotel guests and other categories of persons including persons who sleep on the streets. This was revealed when Government Statistician, Professor Samuel Kobina Annim today spent some time to address the nation on the roll out of the 2021 National Housing and Population census. According to Professor Annim over 90 percent of enlisted areas have been chalked signifying a great deal of preparedness ahead of the main exercise starting with the deployment of personnel of the Statistical Service who would be stationed at lorry stations across the country to count travelers embarking on long journeys for the census night and other places deem for the 2021 census. You count, get counted,  he added.

2021 VGMA Awards: Full list of Nominees and Winners. Diana Hamilton, KiDi, Adina, Kuami Eugene top winners of 2021 Vodafone Ghana Music Awards 26 June 2021 2021 VGMA awards winners: Diana Hamilton, Kidi, Adina, Kuami Eugene top winners of 2021 Vodafone Ghana Music Awards Charterhouse the organizers of the 22nd annual Vadafone Ghana Music Awards named the winners for this year. Diana Hamilton took away the much awaited #VGMA22 'Artiste Of The Year'. Vodafone Ghana Music Awards [VGMA] 2021 edition happened this weekend in Accra International Conference Centre. The Ghanaian gospel singer Diana Hamilton, KiDi, Adina and Kuami Eugene top this year's VGMA winners. Ghana Music Awards the biggest music festival for the west African nation. Adina was picked  for a 11 nominations the highest for the night. Out of the 11, she win three awards, including the 'Album of the Year' with Araba, her latest music album. While Diana bag six nominations and win four awards, including th...

COP KWASI MENSAH DUKU RETIRES AFTER 31 YEARS IN POLICE SERVICE. COP Kwasi Mensah Duku, the Ashanti Regional Police Commander has shared his 31 years of experience in the Ghana Police Service. In a conversation monitored by Alrich24newsgh.com,  COP Mensah Duku said he was born in Goaso and started his basic education there in the Ahafo Region. He continued to Dormaa and Tarkwa Secondary Schools respectively for his secondary education.  After which he pursued Accounting studies at the polytechnic and later furthered at the University of Ghana-Legon.  Upon completion, he worked with Great Africa Insurance Company in Accra as an Internal Auditor and later move to Agriculture Development Bank now ADB as Finance Officer.  COP Akwasi Mensah Duku will soon retire from the police service when he joined in 1991 as a pay officer at Akwapim and later enrolled in the general police duties at Dodowa as the District Police Commander in Accra for 3 years. He was selected among the ...

BOK AFRICA CONCERN BREAKS GROUND TO CONSTRUCT WAREHOUSE AT NANA OWUSU FAKYIWAA SOAP FACTORY.  BOK Africa Concern in collaboration with Volontariato  Internazionale Per Lo Sviluppo (VIS) have break grounds to construct a warehouse at the Nana Owusu Fakyiwaa Soap Resource Centre at Senase in the Berekum East Municipality.  The two agencies built a black soap processing factory in 2020 and now supporting it with a warehouse.   Speaking at the groundbreaking ceremony, the representative of VIS Ghana, Ms Silvia Tizzi, unboxed that the factory was sited in Berekum to create jobs for the skilled and unskilled youth in Berekum and its environs to help reduce illegal migration in the region.  Mr Benson O.S. Boateng; representative of BOK Africa established that the warehouse when completed will serve as a storage facility for raw materials and furnished products for distribution and marketing.  He explained that the black soap factory at Senase will coordinate ...

OFFUMAN CHIEF IN THE GRIPS OF THE LAW FOR BUILDING WITHOUT PERMITS The Gyaasehene of Offuman, Nana Owusu Nkwantabisa Duah also known as Nana Bossman has been granted bill to the tune of Ghc 20,000.00 by the Techiman Circuit Court for developing on a piece of land without a permit at Offuman in the Techiman North District of the Bono East Region.  The Techiman North District Physical Planning Office, Mr. John Obeng Mensah at the court presided over by His Lordship Alexander Graham, explained that all efforts to reach the chief to stop developing on the said piece of land and to obtain a building permit prove futile but rather intensifies the development on the land. His Lordship Alxander Graham upon hearing the case on 23rd June 2021, at the court put  Nana Bossman into police custody and later granted him bill. He adjourned the case for a judgement to be held on 8th July, 2021. Mr. John Obeng Mensah further took the opportunity to advise a lot of Ghanaians who build without ob...

MASSIVE DEMONSTRATION TO HIT SUNYANI OVER LACK OF DEVELOPMENT. Accra based Angel FM/TV a subsidiary of Angel Broadcasting Network (ABN) on its 24th June 2021 edition of 'Anopa Bofoo' has proposed a massive demonstration for the people of Sunyani against the retrogression of the capital town of the Bono Region. The morning show program hosted by Kofi Adoma Nwanwanii, highlighted issues like the Regional Library being abandoned for over 18 years without any reshape, malfunctional streets lights along the principal streets in the town, among others. It was revealed that a Sunyani Airport which was under construction for upgrade has also been abandoned with the contractor off-site. Reports have it that the contractor left due to lack of funds from the government. Kofi Adoma speaking to Righteous, a reporter at Cheers Fm confirmed that Sunyani over the years is not progressing and that most of the roads are in deplorable state including a ring road in the city. Faulty traffic lights...

PRAGYIA RIDER COMMITS SUICIDE AT KYIREBAA IN BEREKUM. A 30 year old pragyia rider, Noah Mensah aka Taller has committed suicide by hanging at Kyirbaa in the Berekum East Municipality of the Bono Region.  According to the reports gathered by Alrich24newsgh.com, he hanged himself yesterday 22nd June, 2021 at about 4:00 am out of distress. Eyewitnesses perceived he died out of broken heart of his broken relationship with his former fiancee.  He called his sister and brother-in law to informed them of his plans to hang himself to death. To him, life is not worth living. Unfortunately, advice from the brother-in-law fell on deaf ears.  The man was later found hanging at an uncompleted story building with his own belt. Ghana Police Service was called in to removed the body form where it was hanging and was sent to the Holy Family Hospital mortuary.

BABY-THIEF LYNCHED AT BEREKUM-ABISAASE. An unidentified young man in his twenties has been lynched for allegedly stealing a one and half-year-old baby at Abisase in the BerekumWest District of the Bono Region.  The body of the deceased at the time of this post was lying decomposed at the incidence scene at Abisase although the Police and Environmental Health Officers had been called to intervene. According to an eyewitness, the young man entered a room around 2:30 am on Tuesday 22nd June, 2021 and managed to make away with the baby. Fortunately, the father of the baby saw him and with the help of the community, chased him for the baby. The thief over fear of being caught threw the baby away but was still pursued and lynched. Speaking to alrich24newsghblogspot.com, the Assembly Member for Abisase-Tiwbaabi Electoral Area, Hon. Atta Jacobs said, the unit committee members in the town did their best to rescue the young man from being lynched but were not successful to protect him due t...

FATHER'S DAY PROPHETIC MESSAGE BY REV. GABRIEL ANSAH TO ALL PARTNERS. THE BLESSINGS FATHERS CARRY. “And Jacob BLESSED Pharaoh,and went out from before Pharaoh “(Gen.47:10). Old Jacob and Pharaoh; who was rich?  Of course you might say, Pharaoh and you would not be wrong. But Jacob too was rich in his own capacity; having lived for many years under God’s Presence- with a large Family of wives, powerful grown up children and grandchildren, and servants (all numbering about 70), and possessions of animals and money. But Exclusively Father Jacob carried Something Pharaoh needed: A BLESSING. Divine and Covenant Blessings were upon Jacob through his FATHERS Abraham and Isaac. God in addition had blessed him several times and made him a PROPHET and the FOUNDING FATHER of the Nation Israel. He carried that Covenant Name and a Generational Blessing was upon him wherever he goes. Jacob was a Spiritual Heavyweight. A Very Powerful Spiritual Warrior and Great FATHER. Pharaoh Received Jacob wit...

GALAMSEY KINGPIN ARRESTED IN AN INSPECTION TOUR BY THE BONO MINISTER AS SHE CONTINUES TO WAGE WAR AGAINST ILLEGAL LUMBERING AND GALAMSEY. The Bono Regional Minister Justina Owusu-Banahene together with the security task force has on Wednesday arrested, a 36-year-old man suspected to be one of the most notorious illegal miners at Wamfie in the Dormaa East District. The arrest follows after the Regional Minister waged war on the perpetrators of illegal mining and illegal lumbering across the region, which begun from Nkrankwanta and Dormaa Ahenkro on Tuesday. Kofi Damoa a.k.a "Alla" who is alleged to be housing and sponsoring these illegal miners was arrested together with one accomplice Stephen Ansu at one of the galamsey sites closer to his house at Wamfie, a search at the house revealed two local guns, cartridges, pumping machine among other tools. According to the minister, the regional operation against illegal lumbering and illegal miners is in fulfilment of the President’...

LET'S PROTECT THE NATION9’S FOREST RESERVES FOR POSTERITY--BONO REGIONAL MINISTER. The Bono Regional Minister Justina Owusu-Banahene, has called for concerted effort to protect the nation’s forest reserves for posterity especially the indigenous plants and animals. She said, the forest is a valuable national asset that should not be destroyed through the greed and selfishness of few individuals and therefore there should be systematic efforts to green our environment. The Minister disclosed this at the Green Ghana Day programme in Sunyani on Friday which is a national effort at planting more than 5 million trees in a single day to preserve and protect the country’s forest cover and the environment at large. Justina Owusu-Banahene explained that thousands of seedlings made up of different tree species had already been distributed to all the 12 municipal and district assemblies in the region through the Forestry Commission for further distribution to individual Ghanaians and organiza...

Ghana Revenue Authority Awards Dr Kwaku Oteng, CEO of Angel Group of Companies as the Best Excise Taxpayer in Ashanti Region. The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has honoured the Angel Group of Companies as the BEST EXCISE TAXPAYER in the Ashanti region for the year 2020. A plaque presented by the Ashanti Area Head of the GRA, Mr Samuel Sakyi Baidoo and received by the Founder and President of the Angel Group of Companies, Dr. Kwaku Oteng read that, “This is in recognition of your performance as the BEST EXCISE TAXPAYER 2020 Year of Assessment for the Ashanti Area of the Ghana Revenue Authority. Congratulations”. The Angel Group of Companies, the producers of excisable products like Adonko Bitters and Adonko Next Level Energy drink have obliged to the payment of excise taxes and complied with the directive of affixing the excise tax stamps on all of its products; a practice, the Ashanti Area Head of the GRA has highly praised. According to the GRA, “The Excise Tax Stamp is a specially de...

BONO MINISTER URGES YOUTH TO EMBRACE GOVERNMENT PROGRAMMES TO CREATE WEALTH. The Bono Regional Minister Justina Owusu-Banahene has called on the youth to embrace government programmes aimed at empowering them through wealth creation by engaging in productive economic sectors. Speaking at a Youth Dialogue organised in Sunyani by Springboard Road Show for the youth in the middle zone on Monday she said, government had registered tremendous achievements in the economic, social and political spheres and urged the youth to take advantage of the various programmes including the Youth in Agriculture, NEIP, Rural Enterprise Programme, Green Business Initiative, Incubation and Support Program, Nabco among others. Present at the function were the Minister of Finance Mr Ken Ofori Atta, CEO NEIP, In Charge of OBAATANPA project among other high ranking officials. According to the Bono Regional Minister, government will speed up the implementation of its proposed Jobs and Skills Program to promote s...