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Police arrest eight Foreigners for Illegal Gold Exploration and Trading in Bono Region
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Police arrest eight Foreigners for Illegal Gold Exploration and Trading in Bono Region

The Bono Regional Police Command has arrested eight foreign nationals for engaging in illegal gold exploration and purchasing without a licence at Wewe, a community near Banda in the Bono Region. The suspects, identified as Sayuba Ziba, Kienu Dobou, Osman Tunabu, Nana Alhassan, Wadrago Abdulai, Aliu Sali, Ibrahim Wulba, and Alhassan Imoro, are nationals of Nigeria, Ivory Coast, and The Gambia. According to the Police, the arrests were made on Thursday, October 2, 2025, after sustained intelligence and surveillance on the group’s activities. The suspects were apprehended while actively engaged in illegal mining and gold trading operations within the community. During the operation, the Police retrieved GH¢23,450.00 in cash, quantities of raw gold and gold dust, mercury, and a light...
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National Apprenticeship Programme Will Benefit All Interested Youth – Bono Minister
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National Apprenticeship Programme Will Benefit All Interested Youth – Bono Minister

Mr Joseph Addae Akwaboah, the Bono Regional Minister, has given the assurance that the government’s National Apprenticeship Programme (NAP) will benefit all interested young people across the country. The NAP, a major government initiative, seeks to address youth unemployment, close the skills gap, and promote economic growth. It provides free, high-quality apprenticeship training to equip young people with industry-relevant technical, vocational, and entrepreneurial skills. Beneficiaries will receive nationally recognised certification and pathways to employment or self-employment in priority sectors such as agriculture, manufacturing, ICT, fashion, construction, renewable energy, and traditional crafts. Mr Akwaboah said government remained committed to tackling the growing unemp...
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Banda Assembly announces death of District Police Commander    
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Banda Assembly announces death of District Police Commander    

The Banda District Assembly in the Bono Region has announced the death of Police Superintendent Kofi Oduro Amponsah, the Banda District Police Commander.  According to Mr Peter Dongi, the Banda District Chief Executive, the late Supt Amponsah, 56 years, died after a short illness.  He described him as a very kind man and hardworking. Mr Dongi gave the announcement when addressing the First Ordinary General Meeting of the Ninth Assembly held at Banda-Ahenkro, the district capital. He said the district would remember the late police commander for his instrumental role towards the peaceful conduct of the 2024 Election in the area, saying “in fact Supt Amponsah served the district with dedication and commitment, and his passing will be deeply felt by all”. Mr Dongi conveyed the assembly’s symp...
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President Mahama extends ‘Thank You Tour’ to Bono, Bono East and Ahafo Regions
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President Mahama extends ‘Thank You Tour’ to Bono, Bono East and Ahafo Regions

President John Dramani Mahama is scheduled to take his nationwide “Thank You Tour” to the Bono, Bono East, and Ahafo Regions. The President is expected tgin the tour in Bono East on Thursday, May 29, continue to Bono on Friday, May 30 and ends in Ahafo Region on Saturday, May 31. According to a statement issued at the Presidency, the "Thank You Tour" would enable the President to express gratitude to the Chiefs and People of the three regions for their massive support for him and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the 2024 General Election. In a copy of the statement made available to the media, President Mahama is scheduled to address a durbar of the chiefs and people of the Bono East region at Kintampo at 1400 hours. He is expected to address a similar durbar of the ch...
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Police arrest 13 Burkinabes at illegal mining site in Banda  
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Police arrest 13 Burkinabes at illegal mining site in Banda  

The Police Service has arrested 13 foreign nationals at an illegal mining site in the Banda District of the Bono Region.According to the police, the suspects, all Burkinabes, were arrested at the mining site at Banda-Weima in the district, between 0740 hours and 1100 hours on Thursday May 22, 2025.Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Victor Samadji, the Banda District Police Crime Officer, confirmed the arrest and told the Ghana News Agency that the suspects had since been handed over to the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS).When contacted, the Assistant Superintendent of Immigration (ASI) Daniel Tabi, Staff Officer and Head of Intelligence, Banda District Command, GIS, said the suspects had been sent back to the Savannah region.“We warned them not to be seen in the area again,” he state...
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Pimampim Kagbrese V elected member of Council of State for Bono East Region     
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Pimampim Kagbrese V elected member of Council of State for Bono East Region     

The Paramount Chief of the Yeji Traditional Area, Pimampim Yaw Kagbrese V, 73-years-old, has been elected to represent the Bono East Region on the Council of State.  He secured 11 votes out of the 22 valid votes cast in an election conducted and supervised by the Electoral Commission in Techiman, the Bono East Regional capital on Tuesday, February 11, 2025.  Nana Opoku Fosu Gyeabour, a-65-year-old engineer, also had seven votes, with Pastor Michael Kwasi Amponsah, 40 years, obtaining four votes.  In all 11 people contested the elections in the region.  In his acceptance speech, Pimampim Kagbrese V, also a former President of the then Brong-Ahafo Regional House of Chiefs, expressed appreciation to the people of the region for the confidence reposed in him.  ...
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A total of 124 applicants vie for MMDCE in Bono Region
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A total of 124 applicants vie for MMDCE in Bono Region

A total of 124 people are vying for the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executive (MMDCE) positions in the 12 politically administrative areas in the Bono Region,    Mr Dennis Yeboah Twumasi, the Bono Regional Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) said on Monday.  In a breakdown, he said 10 applicants had applied for the position as the Sunyani mayor, 21 applicants for Sunyani West MCE, seven applicants for the Dormaa West DCE and eight applicants for the Dormaa Central MCE.  In an interview with the GNA in Sunyani, Mr Twumasi said seven people had also applied for the Dormaa East DCE position, nine for the Berekum East MCE, and 10 applicants for the Berekum West DCE positions.  He said 15 applicants had also submitted their details for the Ja...
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Scores in Sunyani view live-telecast of President-elect Mahama’s inauguration
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Scores in Sunyani view live-telecast of President-elect Mahama’s inauguration

Jubilant supporters of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) thronged the Bono Regional Office of the party to observe the live-telecast of the swearing-in of the President-elect John Dramani Mahama and his Vice Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang amid sporadic sparking of firecrackers. The Regional executives of the party had earlier mounted a television set at the premises of the party office in Sunyani to enable the party supporters and members and a section of the public to watch the live telecast from the Black Star Square in Accra. It was joy and happiness, as the highly excited viewers, mostly clad in NDC customised ‘T shirt’ and party paraphernalia and glued to the television set and sparked firecrackers intermittently, the Ghana News Agency (GNA) noticed during a visit. ...
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MTN Ghana, Bono branch donates hampers to 30 Xmas born babies    
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MTN Ghana, Bono branch donates hampers to 30 Xmas born babies    

The Bono Regional branch of MTN Ghana has presented Christmas packages to 30 babies on admission at the Sunyani Teaching and Berekum Holy Family Hospitals.The babies were born on Christmas Eve, December 25 and Boxing Day December 26, 2024, and each of them received a gift hamper containing diapers, baby soaps, feeding bottle, playing toy, washing powder, baby perfume and cotton bud and baby oil and dress.Describing the babies as special born, Mr Kofi Owusu, the Bono Regional Manager, MTN Ghana asked the parents to take good care of the babies.He indicated that the hospitals were chosen for the presentation because of their quality healthcare delivery and asked them to continue with that to improve health outcomes.Mr Owusu reminded the hospital authorities that MTN remained a business entit...
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Bono Muslims in tears, as scores celebrate Xmas in Sunyani     

Sheikh Umar Abdul Kadir Coulibaly, the Bono Regional Chief Imam, has passed on, and left the Sunyani Muslim Community in a state of mourning, as scores celebrate the festive season.Mr Jacscot Hawkins Alhassan, the Bono Regional Secretary for the Council of Zongo Chiefs, confirmed it to Ghana News Agency (GNA) and added that the death happened on Wednesday evening of December 25, 2024.Describing it as a shock and bad news, he said the late chief Imam died at his private residence in Sunyani. He left four wives with a number of children.Checks revealed that the late Coulibaly was enstooled as the Regional Chief Imam in 2002 and reigned for 22 years.During a visit to the Zongo Community in Sunyani on Thursday, some of the Muslims told the GNA they were saddened about the sudden loss of an ‘in...
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