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unusual facts about Western Region, Ghana



A. W. Lawrence

He resigned these posts in 1957 after Ghana became independent and soon after settled at Pateley Bridge in Yorkshire, later moving to Bouthwaite.

Africatown

Dahomey warriors raided a village near the city of Tamale in Ghana, and took the survivors to Whydah, now Benin, where they were put up for sale.

Alpha Beta Christian College

It is located in Dansoman, Accra, Ghana, and offers the Cambridge International Programmes IGCSE (International General Certificate of Secondary Education) and A-Levels.

Awudu Issaka

In July 2006 Issaka, joined the newly promoted Ghana Telecom Premier League club Tema Youth.

Baba Adamu

Baba Adamu (born 20 October 1979 in Kumasi, Ghana), known occasionally simply by his nickname "Armando", is a former Ghanaian international football (soccer) striker.

British Rail Class 97/6

The fleet was originally numbered PWM650-654 in the Western Region Permanent Way Machines series, but were renumbered into the Class 97 series between 1979-1981.

Bruce Arena

The United States scored only twice in its three games, a draw against eventual champion Italy on an own goal by Italian Cristian Zaccardo and a goal from Clint Dempsey against Ghana.

Buipe

Buipe is a small town and is the capital of Central Gonja district, a district in the Northern Region of north Ghana.

Celia Wade-Brown

After school, she took a gap year in Cape Coast, Ghana, then earned an honours degree in philosophy from the University of Nottingham.

Christian Gyan

Christian Attah Gyan (born 2 November 1978 in Tema) is a Ghanaian footballer who currently plays for Leonidas

Congo Serpent Eagle

The Congo Serpent Eagle was first described in 1863 by Hermann Schlegel as Astur spectabilis from a specimen collected near Elmina, Ghana.

Dany Bahar

During his time at Red Bull, Bahar lead the diversification of the brand into NASCAR and football with the acquisition of teams in Salzburg, New York and Ghana.

Dave Godfrey

He taught in Ghana for several years including Adisadel College, Cape Coast from 1963-65 where he was the English and music instructor.

Emmanuel's Gift

Emmanuel's Gift is a 2005 documentary narrating the life of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah, a disabled man born in Ghana.

Fair Trials International

Ghana Girls: In July 2007, two 16-year-old girls, Yetunde Diya and Yasemin Vatansever, were arrested for possession of 6 kilograms of cocaine at Accra airport in Ghana.

Faustina Acheampong

She was the spouse of General Ignatius Kutu Acheampong, Chairman of the National Redemption Council and Supreme Military Council and Head of state of Ghana from 1972 to 1978.

Flabellina affinis

This species is found in depths to 50 m in European waters along Portugal and Spain, in the Mediterraneran Sea along Greece, in the Atlantic Ocean from Portugal to Ghana and along the Canaries

Francis Dickoh

Francis Dickoh (born 13 December 1982 in Copenhagen) is a Ghanaian/Danish footballer, currently playing for FCM, a club he signed for on the 30th of January, 2014.

Geoffrey Mawuli Biekro

He was appointed in April 2013 after Vice Admiral Matthew Quashie was elevated to Chief of Defence Staff .

Ghana Empire

French colonial officials, notably Maurice Delafosse, concluded that Ghana had been founded by the Berbers, a nomadic group origination from the Benu River, from Middle Africa, and linked them to North African and Middle Eastern origins.

Ghana–United States relations

Ghana – United States relations have generally been friendly since Ghana's independence, except for a period of strained relations during the later years of the Nkrumah regime.

Ghanaians in the United Kingdom

In 1555 John Lok, a London merchant and Alderman, brought five Africans from the town of Sharma, in what is today Ghana, to London to be trained as interpreters in order to assist England’s trade with the western coast of Africa.

Global spread of H5N1 in 2007

May 3, 2007:"Ghana's first case of the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu has been confirmed in sick chickens by local laboratories and a US naval laboratory in Egypt, a World Health Organisation official said overnight. Some 1600 birds had already been incinerated as part of efforts to control the outbreak on a farm 20km east of Ghana's capital Accra, near the port of Tema".

Governance Initiative for Rights and Accountability in Forest Management

The Governance Initiative for Rights & Accountability in Forest Management (GIRAF) is a project executed in Ghana with funds from the European Union (EU) and its partners CARE Denmark, CIVIC Response, Friends of the Earth-Ghana and Centre for Indigenous Knowledge.

H. V. Meyerowitz

The Rev. H.M.Grace, the Principal of Achimota College in the Gold Coast (Ghana), offered Meyerowitz the job of arts and crafts supervisor.

Iridana

The only known specimen of I. agneshorvathae was collected at light in Bia National Park in Western Ghana from a dry semi-deciduous forest and is most probably a canopy species.

Jack H. Goaslind

During this time, he oversaw placing Emmanuel A. Kissi in charge of the church's affairs in Ghana during "the freeze", when the government of Ghana forbade all meetings of the church.

John Cofie

Born in Aboso in Ghana, he began his career with Manchester United but failed to make the break into the first team.

Joseph Oliver Bowers

In recognition and acknowledgement of his work in Ghana, when the diocese of St. John's-Basseterre in the West Indies was created in 1971 - comprising the islands of Antigua-Barbuda, St. Kitts and Nevis, Montserrat, Anguilla and the British Virgin Islands - Bowers was appointed its first bishop on January 16, 1971, becoming the chief pastor in Antigua.

Kabakumba Masiko

In November 2011, members of the Uganda Police Force, acting on a tip-off, confiscated a radio transmitter and a radio mast from the premises of Kings Broadcasting Sercvice (KBS), in the town of Masindi, in Western Uganda.

Kojo Botsio

Mr Botsio was also once Vice-Principal of the Abuakwa State College at Kibi in Ghana.

Lisa I'Anson

Later on she was also presenting other live TV shows including the very first and subsequent MOBO awards (music of black origin), The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert at Wembley Stadium and a live link from Ghana, West Africa direct to London with then British Prime Minister and U.S. President, Tony Blair and Bill Clinton.

Melcom

On December 22, 2012, Melcom suffered another major accident when its mall in Agona Swedru in the Central Region of Ghana was totally burnt down by fire.

Meltwater Group

The Meltwater Foundation, a non-profit branch of the company, provides entrepreneurial and software training to promising young African students at the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) in Ghana.

Noumérat – Moufdi Zakaria Airport

On 6 February 2010 at 04:48, a Ghana International Airlines Boeing 757 flying from Accra, Ghana to London Gatwick, United Kingdom with 125 passengers and 8 crew made a precautionary landing at Moufdi Zakaria Airport following indications of possible irregularities with the hydraulics system.

Oburoni

Other Akan languages employ variants on Obroni: For example Western Ghana, uses the term ‘Brofo’ or ‘Brofwe’.

Odumase, Ghana

Odumase (or Odumase Sunyani West) is a small town and is the capital of Sunyani West district of the Brong Ahafo Region of Ghana.

Oppong

Oppong is a surname that originates in Ghana.

Pampanso

Pampanso is a village in the Akuapim South Municipal district, a district in the Eastern Region of Ghana.

Paul Acquah

After leaving the Bank of Ghana, Paul Acquah joined a new team setup to oversee the restructuring and development of Tema Oil Refinery and Ghana's crude oil supply.

Presbyterian Boys' Secondary School

Prof. Ernest Aryeetey - Vice Chancellor of University of Ghana - Legon (2010 - ).

Prince Buaben

Prince Buaben (The Fresh Prince of Firhill) (born 23 April 1988 in Akosombo) is a Ghanaian professional footballer, who is currently playing for Partick Thistle on loan from Carlisle United.

Quincy Owusu-Abeyie

On 5 June, he scored Ghana's one goal victory over Latvia in their last warm-up match at Stadium mk in Milton Keynes, England.

Ransford Osei

In July 2012, Osei signed a contract with the twenty-two times champions of Ghana and two times champions of Africa, Asante Kotoko.

Red Volta

The Red Volta is a river that flows through the Upper East region of North Ghana and the international border of North Ghana flowing about 320 km to join the White Volta in the Upper East region of North Ghana and arising in Burkina Faso.

Selena Cuffe

A descendant of the Ashanti tribe of Ghana, he was freed by the Emancipation Proclamation at the age of eight.

The SAFE Foundation

Founded in 2005, The SAFE Foundation currently has projects in Masinagudi in the Nilgiri Hills of South India, Kumasi in Ghana, Freetown in Sierra Leone and Tororo in Uganda.

Victor Kofi Agawu

Kofi Agawu or more often simply as Kofi Agawu, is a music scholar from the Volta Region of Ghana.


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