The Ashanti Region of Ghana is an administrative region in Ghana which contains 27 districts made up of 1 Metropolitan, 6 Municipal and 20 Ordinary districts. Most of the region’s inhabitants are Ashanti people, one of Ghana’s major ethnic groups. Most of Ghana’s cocoa is grown in Ashanti, and it is also a major site of Ghana’s gold-mining industry.
Kumasi metropolis (the capital) has been the seat of the rich tradition and culture of the Ashanti Kingdom. The city holds an important place in the history of the Ashanti people, as legend claims that it was here Okomfo Anokye received the Golden stool, an embodiment of the soul of the Asanti nation.
Kumasi alone accounts for nearly one-third of the region’s population. Slightly over half (51.5 per cent) of the population of the region is in four districts. While more than half of the population in the region reside in urban areas, in 15 of the 18 districts, over half of the population live in rural areas.
Hon. Kofi Opoku Manu is the regional minister and Hon. Anima Wilson as the Deputy.
The Ghana office of the West African Examination Council has been advised to consider alternative options to give unsuccessful candidates of the Basic Education Certificate Examination the opportunity to re-sit their examination, the next year.
The Atwima-Mponua District Assembly has sunk 120 boreholes as part of an aggressive push towards the expansion of potable water supply to people in the area.
The Assemblywoman for Adankranja electoral area in the Bekwai Municipality of the Ashanti Region, Miss Veronica Amoatemaah, has appealed to the government to extend the school feeding programme to three primary schools in the area.
Reverend Dr Stephen Kwabena Asante, President of the Ghana Baptist Convention (GBC), has expressed the Church’s strong opposition to same sex marriages and urged government to act boldly to stop this from happening in the country.
Ghanaians living abroad will not be counted in the impending Population and Housing Census scheduled for September, Dr Grace Bediako, Government Statistician, has said.
Mr Alex Tetteh-Enyo, Education Minister, has assured private, basic and second cycle schools of government’s support through the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) interventions.
The Minister of Education, Mr Alex Tetteh-Enyo, has assured private basic and second cycle schools of the government’s support through the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund).
A hard line and more assertive measure according to the Ashanti Regional Minister is vital in a bid to check the growing and budding obliteration of the country’s forests through illegal felling of timber.
The Asante Mampong Police have arrested 18 suspected criminals including two females at their hideout at Nsuta, Mampong-Tadiem, Kofiase-Junction, Bofour, New Daaman and Bobin.
