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Chieftaincy and Culture
23rd May, 2012
The Sarkin Zongo of Kumasi, Sultan Umar Farouk Saeed, has called on Yorubas in Kumasi and the Ashanti Region as a whole, to put the recent chieftaincy dispute behind them and face the development challenges confronting the Zongo Community in peace and unity.
The Sarkin Zongo, who is the overlord of the Zongo Communities in Ashanti said the ...
21st May, 2012
A 200 million dollar loan facility has been secured from the China Development Bank to commence work on landing sites for selected coastal communities across the country, Vice-President John Mahama ...
15th May, 2012
Ghana will join the rest of the world to mark the World Day for Cultural Diversity Dialogue and Development that has been set aside to provide the world with the opportunity to deepen world ...
26th April, 2012
CHIEFS in the Ga traditional areas have been urged to strive to resolve disputes between feuding parties amicably.
Nii Amarkai III, Asere Dzaasetse and acting Asere Mantse, made the appeal when Nii ...
19th April, 2012
The National House of Chiefs is worried about the reported incidence of skirmishes and rancor at some biometric voter registration centres in some parts of the country.
“This unfortunate incidence ...
13th February, 2012
An Accra High Court on Thursday, dismissed an interlocutory injunction application filed by Nii Nortey Owuo III a claimant of the Osu Stool seeking to prevent Nii Okwei Kinka Dowuona VI from holding ...
8th February, 2012
OSAGYEFO Amoatia Ofori Panin, the Okyenhene has elevated the regent of Kwabeng, Nana Adjei Twum, to the status of Gyantuahene of the Akyem Abuakwa at Kibi, in the Eastern Region.
The elevation of ...
4th November, 2011
The chief of Badzeme in the Volta Region, Okofrobor Agyeman VII, has called on traditional rulers to use annual festivals as a platform to fight indiscipline emanating from “politics of ...
1st November, 2011
THE fragile peace that the Chiefs and people of the Bawku Traditional Area had been enjoying after several years of ethnic conflict is under threat.
This followed an order by Naa Bohagu Sheriga, ...
31st October, 2011
The case, in which Dr. Jo Blankson is being challenged over his nomination and installation as Ga Mantse at the Greater Regional House of Chiefs at Dodowa, is drawing to a close as the adjudicating ...
25th October, 2011
The Ajumako Traditional Council have elevated three sub-chiefs in the area to status of Nguaintoihen, Abakomahem and Baemhem due to their dedication to the growth of the traditional area.
They are ...
24th August, 2011
Chiefs and people of Osu on Tuesday, celebrated their annual Homowo Festival with a peaceful parade of traditional regalia and the sprinkling of kpokpoi (food).
The ceremony aimed at hooting at ...
16th August, 2011
The chiefs and people of Adjen Kotoku in the Ga West municipality, last Saturday celebrated their Homowo festival with pomp and pageantry.
There was firing of musketery while a retinue of ...
16th August, 2011
The people of the Ohiawa We of Otublohum in Ga Mashie, last Saturday celebrated their homowo festival amidst merry making.
The Dzaasehene of the Otublohum division, Nii Amoo III, sprinkled the ...
6th August, 2011
The people of James Town (Ngleshie Alata) paramountcy in Accra led by Oblempong Nii Kojo Ababio V , James Town Mantse, will on Monday, August 15, celebrate a special Odwira festival to mark the ...
8th July, 2011
The Chiefs and people of the Edina Traditional Area in the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem (KEEA) Municipality of the Central Region on Tuesday Celebrated their annual Bakatue festival and regatta ...
28th June, 2011
A grand durbar of the chiefs and people of Have traditional area was held here last Saturday to climax the annual Agadevi festival.
The event is celebrated as a symbol of thanks-giving in ...
25th May, 2011
Tension is mounting between the people of Nimoro and Fielmua communities in the Sissala West District of Upper West Region, over a land dispute.
Both sides are said to be stock piling arms and ...
23rd May, 2011
Queen mothers in the country have advocated they must be given enough representation at the Regional House of Chiefs and the Districts Assemblies.
This is contained in a communiqué read by Nana ...
20th May, 2011
Togbe Afede XIV, Agbogbomefia of Ho, Asogli State and President of the Volta Regional House of Chiefs, has advised traditional rulers in the region to provide better leadership for the benefit of ...
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A nine –member committee has been constituted to plan this year’s Afigya-Kwabre District home coming festival under the theme: “Leadership and ...
