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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. ...

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...

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...