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The ultimate Akwasidae Festival of 2024 has been held at the Manhyia Palace in Kumasi, Ashanti Region. The King of the Asante Kingdom, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II marked it on December 8, a day after the country’s Presidential and Parliamentary elections. His Majesty was joined by people from across the country and beyond, including Nananom, the Regional Security Council (REGSEC) led by Regional Minister Simon Osei Mensah, the National Democratic Congress (NDC), and the leadership of Kwame Nkrumah University of […]
The King of the Asante Kingdom, His Majesty Otumfuo Osei Tutu II and Queen, Her Majesty Nana Konadu Yiadom III have cast their votes in the ongoing polls. Ghana is today electing a new President alongside 276 Parliamentary representatives for the next four years as part of democratic processes. The exercise brought out the royals of the Asante Kingdom to exercise their franchise. Asantehene VotesThe Monarch was the first to arrive at the Manhyia Palace Polling Station 1 in the […]
The King of the Asante Kingdom, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, will be celebrated at the next edition of the Africa Union Ambassadors Ball hosted by H.E. Hilda Suka-Mafudze, the African Union Permanent Representative to the United States in Washington, DC. The King will at the event slated for March 2025, formally receive the AU Kofi Annan Award in recognition of his dedication to peace and unity in Ghana and beyond. This was officially conveyed to the Manhyia Palace by Ambassador […]
Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, Asantehene, has mourned Nana Yaa Adutwumwaa Dudaa Kani Mmrosa II, the Queen of Nkoranza Traditional Area in the Bono East Region. The Queen died at the age of 105 years while receiving treatment at a traditional health facility. Her death was publicly announced on March 29, 2024. In accordance with tradition, her burial rites began on Friday, November 29. The Asantehene who is traditionally the spouse of queens of Nkoranza paid his last respects to her […]
Undoubtedly, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, Asantehene, is worried about the recent happenings in Parliament that have forced the House to adjourn indefinitely and sees the urgent need for all well-meaning Ghanaians to be too. The dangers of the conflict in the House lie in the precedence it risks setting for the future. In a speech at the 58th Congregation of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) on November 30, 2024, he condemned the conduct of the legislators […]
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in an expression of gratitude to the King of the Asante Kingdom, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II for lending unwavering assistance in his governance, has stated that he has taken credit for some of his works. One of them, he noted, was the Dagbon crisis which had lingered for about seven decades before its resolution with the kind courtesy of the King. The intervention of Otumfuo paved the way for its amicable resolution and enskinment of […]
In his first address since the commencement of the three-day celebration of the 100th Anniversary of Otumfuo Agyemang Prempeh I’s return from exile in Seychelles, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, the 16th Occupant of the Golden Stool expressed the profound gratitude of the Asantes to the island state. The island country hosted the late King of the Asante Kingdom who on recognising the danger that laid in ambush against his kingdom, chose to give up his liberty in a critical sacrifice […]
In a sermon delivered at the Thanksgiving Service for the 100th Anniversary celebration of the Return of Otumfuo Agyemang Prempeh I, the President of Seychelles who doubles as an Anglican priest stated that the late Monarch exuded the traits of Christ in his endeavours. The Monarch was baptised in the Seychelles on May 29, 1904, confirmed on the December 23, 1921 and first received communion on December 25, 1921. President Ramkalawan from the scrutiny of the life of King Prempeh […]
Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, the 16th Occupant of the Golden Stool drew the curtain on the three-day celebration of the return of the late King Agyemang Prempeh I from exile with a royal lunch. This was right after the Thanksgiving Service at the St Cyprian’s Anglican Cathedral in Kumasi. The lunch was held at the residence of the King inside the Manhyia Palace on November 24, 2024. Guests were soothed with a classic live band performance by Mesduah Band and […]
To express their pride and appreciation to Otumfuo Agyemang Prempeh I, the 13th Monarch of the Asante Kingdom, Asanteman hosted a durbar on Saturday November 23, 2024 at the Manhyia Palace. There was the display of tradition and restitution of Asante artefacts whose looting dates back to the era of the late King. This followed a symposium in memory of the selfless and foresighted King on Friday, November 22, 2024. Chairing the event was Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, Asantehene alongside […]
