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Chieftaincy and Culture
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 ...
18th May, 2011
THE Nsuta Traditional Council has announced an IMMEDIATE ban on the “one-week” funeral celebration in the area.
Nana Adu-Agyei Bonsafo III, the Omanhene, said the situation where bereaved ...
9th May, 2011
A Centre for Communication and Culture (CCC) was inaugurated in Accra last Friday, to promote cultural development through advocacy and training for creators and critics of culture.
The centre, a ...
8th May, 2011
THE Chiefs and people of the Effutu Traditional Area on Saturday celebrated their annual Aboakyir festival with the catch of three antelopes amidst heavy security presence.
Conspicuously absent at ...
2nd April, 2011
Akua Dansua, Minister for Tourism, has been appointed onto the Advisory Board of the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy (ICD), in Berlin, Germany with effect from April 1st, 2011.
The appointment ...
2nd April, 2011
The people of Tafi Abuipe in the Hohoe Municipality have celebrated their first Kente Festival.
The festival was the joint-initiative of the weavers and this years batch of American Peace Crops ...
16th March, 2011
By a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court has quashed the order of prohibition and injunction restraining Nana Kwame Baafi, Atipimhene of New Juaben, from beating the going-gong in pursuance of his ...
26th February, 2011
Recently I asked a Chilean journalist after a tour of the Cape Coast Castle whether there are black people, that is, descendants of the many African slaves taken there during the period as is the case ...
18th December, 2010
Two people died, while nine others suffered cutlass wounds during the celebration of the annual Bugum (Fire festival) in Tamale yesterday.
One of the dead, Alhassan Ibrahim, was said to have ...
7th December, 2010
Nana Obuobi Aduamah III, the newly en-stooled Aduanahene of Akuapem Anaafoo last Tuesday called on chiefs, sub-chiefs and parents in the Akuapem Traditional Area to invest their in their childrens ...
29th November, 2010
Adenkrebi, a farming community in the Ga East district now has a development queen mother (Nkosuohemaa).
She is Ms Rebecca Dyer, a 20 year old Level 300 Social Work student of Calvin College, Grand ...
19th November, 2010
A governance consultant, Professor Irene Odotei, has urged traditional authorities to strengthen their adjudication capacities to ensure access to justice.
She said that ...
16th November, 2010
QUEENMOTHERS have been urged to intensify educational programmes that would prevent women from resorting to unsafe abortion practices.
Ms. Elizabeth Maguire, the President and Chief Executive ...
15th November, 2010
The Omanhene of the New Juaben Traditional Area, Daasebre Oti Boaten, has called on chiefs in the country to learn their customs and traditional practices from their elders.
By this, he said, they ...
6th November, 2010
The Deputy Minister of Women and Childrens Affairs, Hawawu Boya Gariba says tradition and religion have become the main challenges facing the abolition of the witches camps in the north.
This is ...
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Christian leaders have been urged to organise sex education programmes for the youth as a means of exposing them to the dangers of unsafe ...
