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The 18-member Planning Committee for the year-long celebration by the Manhyia Palace has announced some reviews in their plans for the 25th Anniversary of Otumfuo Osei Tutu II and the 150th Anniversary of the Sagrenti War. This was relayed on Thursday, January 11, 2024, by the Chairman of the Committee, Daasebre Otuo Siriboe. Sagrenti War In commemorating the Sagrenti war which will be 150 years on February 6, 2024, Daasebre said a symposium will be held at the Great Hall […]
Otumfuo Osei Tutu II has pledged to continue his mission of resolving all disputes surrounding stools in the Asante Kingdom by returning them to their rightful heirs. He is willing to embark on that mission alone if his elders and other paramount chiefs betray him and opt for dishonesty, he noted at the first meeting of the Asanteman Council during which the newly enstooled Paramount Chief of the Offinso Traditional Area, Nana Dwamena Akenten II, took the oath of allegiance […]
The Asanteman Council held their first meeting of the year on Thursday, January 11, 2024, at the Manhyia Palace. The meeting, chaired by the King of the Asante Kingdom, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, was attended by paramount chiefs and queen mothers from different regions- including the Ashanti Region, Bono Region and the Ahafo Region- that form Asanteman. Among them were Juabenhene Nana Otuo Serebuo II, Asante Mampohene Daasebre Osei Bonsu II, Asante Mamponghemaa Nana Agyakoma Difie II, Ejisuhemaa Nana Yaa […]
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 […]