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  • 2024 Chale Wote Street Art Festival to commence on August 19 – 25

    2024 Chale Wote Street Art Festival to commence on August 19 – 25

    The 14th edition of the Chale Wote Street Art Festival is set to take place from August 19 to August 25, 2024.

    This year, the festival will again be hosted in Osu, following its relocation from Jamestown last year.

    The event will traverse the same route as last year’s festival, beginning at Independence Square and extending through Osu’s various landmarks, including the High Court, Osu Castle, and Oxford Street.

    The route will loop back to Independence Square, incorporating key points such as the Osu cemetery traffic light and Accra Sports Stadium.

    Osu, one of Accra’s oldest neighborhoods with origins in the early 19th century, remains a vibrant hub for the city’s commercial and cultural activities.

    In the previous edition, Black Star Square in Osu showcased open-air murals created by both Ghanaian and international artists.

    These artworks were inspired by the 1835 rebellion of enslaved Afro-Brazilians in Salvador Bahia and their historical return to Ghana, Togo, and Nigeria.

    Organizers are now inviting vendors from various sectors—including art, technology, design, sports, and food and beverages—to register for this year’s festival. Interested parties should contact the organizers at 0209733031, 0539607842, or 0504737978 to secure their spots.

  • Tetteh Quarshie’s roots in Osu, not Mampong – Ga Dangme Council disputes Akufo-Addo’s claim

    Tetteh Quarshie’s roots in Osu, not Mampong – Ga Dangme Council disputes Akufo-Addo’s claim

    The Ga Dangme Council has contested President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s assertion about Tetteh Quarshie’s origins, stating that historical records affirm his roots in Osu, Greater Accra Region, not Mampong in the Eastern Region.

    President Akufo-Addo, during the 67th Independence Day celebration in Koforidua on March 6, credited Tetteh Quarshie as the pioneering force behind cocoa cultivation in Ghana, associating him with Mampong Akuapem.

    The Ga Dangme Council, represented by its President Nii Ayikoi Otoo, released a statement rebuffing the President’s claim, citing it as a source of confusion lacking historical accuracy.

    “Tetteh Quarshie’s roots in Osu are well-documented, with many sources confirming his ties to the community, except that some sometimes link in the Teshie. In both scenarios, however, he remains of pure Ga extraction,” the Council emphasised.

    The claim that Mr. Quarshie was a native of Mampong, the statement claimed, was unsupported by hard data and went against the grain of accepted historical wisdom.

    “It is crucial to correct this misinformation and set the record straight regarding the origins of Tetteh Quarshie. By spreading this inaccurate information, we risk distorting our understanding of history and undermining the legacy of individuals who have made significant contributions to our society. It is essential to rely on factual evidence and historical sources to ensure the accuracy of our narratives,” it said.

  • Osu Police Barracks allegedly disconnected from national grid over illegal connection

    Osu Police Barracks allegedly disconnected from national grid over illegal connection

    The national revenue mobilization taskforce of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has cut off power to three blocks at the police barracks at Osu in Accra due to an unauthorized connection (power was connected without a meter).

    The task force discovered the illegality on Tuesday on its usual rounds to recover monies owed by customers.

    The task force, aside from chasing people who owe ECG debts, uses the opportunity to check for illegal connections.

    “Since it’s an illegal connection, we have the first right to disconnect before we deal with issues.” The manager in charge of external communications, Laila Abubakari told Citi News.

    The disconnection is part of a national exercise to collect monies owed to ECG by customers and to also ascertain the condition of all meters.

    “The Ghana police would have to come to ECG where a bill will be generated for them covering a period of 12 months,” she added.

    She said power will be restored when they pay the surcharged amount.

    “The administration block also owes, but due to security implications, we’ve spared that facility while we discuss further the amount involved. We consider the police accommodation facilities (blocks) a general facility hence the disconnection”.

    Meanwhile, the ECG Revenue Mobilization Taskforce was held hostage for about 30 minutes after they disconnected the Ghana Post Company over GH¢89,000 debt.

    The task force was at the premises to conduct its ongoing revenue mobilization exercise on Tuesday when the staff prevented the task force from leaving the Accra main office.

    The disconnection exercise is in its second week of the month-long national exercise aimed at retrieving GH¢5.7 billion on their books.

  • Betway Ghana’s customer experience centre opened in Osu

    Betway Ghana’s customer experience centre opened in Osu

    The opening of a new customer experience centre in Osu, Accra, has been announced by Betway, a leading international online betting and gaming company.

    The new facility will be a gathering place for fans of sports betting and provide a distinctive and engaging gaming experience. It is situated at No. 9 Adjoate RD. in Osu behind the Koala Shopping Mall on Oxford Street.

    The centre, which is open seven days a week, will give customers access to a variety of sports betting and gaming options, including the creation of new accounts, insider knowledge about special promotions, customer support, and live streaming of sporting events.

    Magnus Rex Danquah Jr., Country Manager, Operations for Betway Ghana, claimed that the new experience centre was created to provide sports betting enthusiasts with a top-notch gaming experience.

    “We are delighted to be opening our new customer experience centre in Osu. This new facility will serve our patrons in the Greater Accra Region and offer them a world-class online betting and gaming experience. We are open to everyone, and we invite patrons to visit us to experience the new customer experience centre.”

    During the launch event, Samuel James Nii Adjei Tawiah, the Municipal Chief Executive of the Korle Klottey Municipal Assembly, extended a warm welcome to Betway in Osu and urged them to actively participate in the development of the local community. He emphasized the significance of businesses in fostering sustainable economic and social growth in the area.

    The launch of this new experience centre is a major milestone in the brand’s expansion within Ghana and brings the total number of centres in the country to three, with the other two located in Takoradi and Kumasi.

  • Rotary Club of Accra La East donate items to Junior Girls Correctional Centre

    Rotary Club of Accra La East has donated items worth over ¢5,000 to the South Labone  Junior Girls Vocational Centre in Osu, Accra.

    The items donated to the Centre include cooking oil, bags of rice, flour, beans, gari, liquid soap, washing powder, toiletries, yam, and plantain, among others.

    President of the Club, Julia Asante Anim, explained the donation formed part of this year’s Rotary Christmas celebrations and that it was necessary for the club to have identified a facility and contribute its quota.

    Ms. Anim added that the provision of the food and other items was a knock on the door of the Centre to present other opportunities to them in terms of education and shelter.

    Rotary Club of Accra La East donate items to Junior Girls Correctional Centre

    ’’We are here today and have identified other focal areas and I can assure you that the Rotary Club of Accra La East will be back to support other areas of this facility. Over the last few years, the Club has supported various schools, orphanages and other social and community interventions and currently working with the Ministry of Health on a nationwide eye screening project,”

    “For us to collaborate with any other people interested in the welfare of people then it is okay with us. It doesn’t matter the denomination, once you are interested in helping other people, we are also interested in it, so to collaborate is not an issue,” She said.

    Rotary has six areas of focus Peace and conflict resolution, disease prevention and treatment, water and sanitation, maternal and child health, basic education and literacy, economic and community development, and so on are all covered by this donation.

    Source: myjoyonline

  • Meet the British governor who bought fortresses in an attempt to end the Slave Trade

    Sir William Robert Wolseley Winniett was a governor in the Gold Coast but worked tirelessly to end the trade of slaves.

    Serving under the Governor of Sierra Leone, Winniett became the lieutenant governor of the Gold Coast (now Ghana) on October 24, 1845.

    Determined to abolish the Slave Trade, he went to the capital of Abomey (current Benin) in 1847 after the Slave Trade Act outlawed the slave trade in the British Empire in 1807 and the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 outlawed slavery altogether.

    According to details available online, in 1848, Sir William Winniett led the West India Regiments and others to stop the murdering of Africans and Europeans by deposing Kaku Aka, the king of Amanahia (Apollonia).

    That same year, with his secretary, Thomas Birch Freeman, he went to the Kingdom of Ashanti to persuade Ghezo, the King of Dahomey, also known as King Kwaku Dua, to stop the slave trade and abolish human sacrifice.

    Details by Wikipedia show that at the time, the king was in the business of exporting 8,000 slaves a year.

    He also purchased Dutch fortresses on the Slave Coast to end the Dutch slave trade.

    On June 29, 1849, Sir. Winniett was knighted by Queen Victoria at the Buckingham Palace.

    He died on December 4, 1850, at Jamestown/Usshertown, Accra and was interred in the cemetery at Fort Christiansborg (Ebenezer Presbyterian Church, Osu).

    Source:  Ghanaweb

  • The ‘spiritual’ things Kwame Nkrumah did at night along beaches

    A former bodyguard of Ghana’s first president, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, has recalled the days when he would accompany his boss to the beach in the dead of the night.

    During those outings, Christian Blukoo said the former president would engage in some spiritual acts.

    Always preoccupied with how to keep the president safe, the former bodyguard explained that he and other reliable guards at the Christiansborg Castle (Osu Castle) – the seat of government at the time- would be dutied to follow him.

    “After I was successful, I was sent to Castle and then they confirmed me as a bodyguard to Nkrumah, and then they put me in protection because Nkrumah at times went out at night. When he was going, those who were smart at the Castle had to follow him because bodyguards will not be in the house at night,” he said.

    Christian Blukoo explained further in an interview with JoyNews that although he could never speak about these things in the past due to the oath of secrecy, he feels safer now to talk about them. He described how on some of those days, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah would spend time on the beach behind the Independence Square, praying and engaging in other spiritual activities.

    “They used it call it secrecy but now, I’m free to speak. At times, he used to go to the seaside at the Black Star Square to consult the spiritual (sic) and like we do here by praying, he also used to do that: he’ll go to the seaside and pray. There were certain other things that he would do,” he narrated.

    The former bodyguard of the president also shared some deep details of some of the security operations he and others undertook for Kwame Nkrumah.

    Source: Ghanaweb.com