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By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah   The partial lockdown is expected to help mitigate the spread of the coronavirus The police high command, in anticipation of a lockdown to control the spread of the coronavirus, has issued operation orders to its heads and units containing a Deployment Strategy for a Lockdown of …

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah AngloGold Ashanti Ghana confirms an employee at its Obuasi Gold Mine in Ghana, has tested positive with the COVID-19 virus. The employee is a Ghanaian who lives in the mine’s accommodation and who recently returned from travel abroad. Ghana has confirmed four more Covid-19 (Coronavirus) cases, making it six …

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah Coronavirus It has turned out that the widely reported case of Ghana’s third coronavirus patient tested negative at the laboratory. www.3news.com gathers that the patient, a worker of Underground Mining Alliance (UMA) in Obuasi in the Ashanti Region has been quarantined, nonetheless. There were media reports on …

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has expressed great delight at the return to profitable production of the Anglogold Ashanti Gold mine, six (6) years after it was effectively closed down. The coming back on stream of the Obuasi mine President Akufo-Addo said signals …

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah An inferno that ravaged a 12-bedroom storey building at Amangoase, a suburb of the gold mining town of Obuasi in the Ashanti region on Sunday night has left its former occupants stranded and homeless, MyNewsGh.com reports. The over 17 tenants who lost all their belongings in the blaze are …

  By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah      The Obuasi District Police Command has arrested a 29-year-old unemployed who goes about posing as a military officer. Frederick Kulepe, wearing a military uniform, goes about extorting various sums of monies, thus defrauding mobile phone dealers at Obuasi and surrounding communities. Deputy Superintendent of Police …

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah     The proposed establishment of a campus of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology at Obuasi has received a boost with a ¢250,000 support from Anglogold Ashanti. A cheque for the amount was presented by the mining giant’s Head of Operations, Brett Thompson at a …

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah       A 32-year-old illegal miner, identified as Paul Owusu, has been shot dead by unknown gunmen at Tweapease on the Nyamebekyere-Kokotenten road near Obuasi in the Ashanti region. Confirming the incident, the district crime officer, Supt. Emmanuel Issaka disclosed that the deceased was murdered on …

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah   The National Petroleum Authority(NPA) has said it will soon begin piloting the cylinder recirculation model (CRM) in Obuasi and Kwaebibirem in the Ashanti and Eastern Regions respectfully. The choice of these two towns, they said, were as a result of good control and traceability of cylinders, …

By.brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah   Mining giant, Anglo Gold Ashanti, says it is planning to recruit about 2,500 workers following its resolve to resume full-scale operations at its Obuasi mine. The Managing Director of the company, Mr Eric Asubonteng, made this known at a Town Hall meeting organised by the mining …