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The world witnessed Asanteman’s grand celebration of the year’s premier Akwasidae festival at the Manhyia Palace on January 7, 2024. The event attracted celebrants from across the country and beyond the shores of Ghana to the Palace. Among the guests were the Ashanti Regional Minister Hon Simon Osei Mensah, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) led by General Secretary Justin Kodua Frimpong, Minister for Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs, Stephen Asamoah Boateng, the Management of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and […]
The Manhyia Palace was the right place to be on Sunday as Asanteman held the highly revered Akwasidae festival. It was the first of eight Akwasidae festivals this year and attracted multitudes from across the country and beyond to the Palace to celebrate with Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II. The event saw cultural and traditional displays as usual as the King took his seat among the traditional rulers and royals to receive his guests on January 7, 2024. Among the […]
The Ghana Draught Association has had the privilege of unveiling its objective before the Monarch of the Asante Kingdom, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II. The national and regional executives of the country’s first traditional sports association took advantage of the Awukudae celebration on December 20 to make the introduction. They also introduced Accra Brewery PLC as the primary sponsor for the standard chessboard of 64 chequered squares draughts game known as dame among Ghanaians. Introducing the delegation, the Woman Commissioner for […]
The King of the Asante Kingdom, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, will feast with the Zongo Community in his territory during his year-long 25th enstoolment anniversary next year. He disclosed when the Asanteman Zongo Nkosuohene, Alhaji Abdul Ali Barry, led a contingent of Zongo youth to the Manhyia Palace during the Awukudae Festival yesterday, December 20, 2023. At the meeting, Otumfuo reiterated for the umpteenth time that the members of the Zongo community were part of his family, thereby his decision […]
His Majesty Otumfuo Osei Tutu II has established that the Car Rentals Association of Ghana (CRAG) has a role to play in enhancing tourism in Ghana. During an encounter with the newly elected executives of the Association at the Manhyia Palace, he urged them to portray and project the country positively to their foreign clients. Asantehene noted that inasmuch as their focus is on business and profit, the welfare of the country must be featured in their considerations for the […]
The 2023 National Best Cocoa Farmer, Madam Adwoa Sintim has presented her achievements to Otumfuo Osei Tutu II at the Manhyia Palace. The former student of St Louis Senior High School (SHS) was accompanied by her friends and daughter on Wednesday, December 20, 2023. She presented two plaques and a certificate she received to the King at the Palace, along with her Toyota Hilux. Going back to the trajectory that led to the big win, she said her first award […]
Dr Regina Martin, the Commissioner for North Lauderdale in Miami in the United States of America (USA) has traced her roots to the Asante Kingdom from where she believes her ancestors were sold off to foreign lands. She asserts that the Asante spirit she carries fuelled her to overthrow North Lauderdale’s longest serving Commissioner in 2019 in an election that made her the first black to take the seat. Introducing her and other Black Americans who also trace their ancestry […]
The bricks for the construction of a cenotaph at the resting place of the famous Queen mother of Ejisu in the Asante Kingdom, Yaa Asantewaa will be laid to bestow to her, the requisite honour for her bravery and contribution to the Kingdom. This was disclosed to Otumfuo Osei Tutu II during the last Awukudae of the year 2023 on December 20, by a group made of natives of Ejisu and professors. Prof Baffour Asare who led the delegation to […]
Ghana’s Most Respected Chief Executive Officer (CEO) in Youth Development, Hon. Andy Okrah, has credited the success in his life to the King of the Asante kingdom, His Majesty Otumfuo Osei Tutu II. At the Manhyia Palace on Wednesday, December 20, the Director of the Forestry Commission Training Center (FCTC) and the Founder and Executive Director of Young Professionals and Youth Coalition (YPYC) said Otumfuo financed his education at a time he needed it most. He stated that he owes […]
His Majesty Otumfuo Osei Tutu II has brought life back to the Mankran Forest Reserve in the Offinso Forest District in the Ashanti Region as part of his passion to restore depleted vegetative cover to stem off the impact of climate change. He is reported to have filled the 72 hectares-forest reserve which was depleted through activities of chain saw operators. The Mankran Forest Reserve is one of the nine forest reserves of Offinso which was brought to its knees […]
