Winneba Masquerade Festival : The First Party Of The Year In Ghana

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If you want to start your New Year with colour, celebration, and pure energy, there is only one place to be on 1st January, Winneba . While everybody is still sleeping after 31st Night, Winneba is already awake. Drums, brass band, costumes, masks. This is the Winneba Masquerade Festival, locally called Fancy Dress. It is the first major festival in Ghana every year. And it is the second biggest festival in Winneba after Aboakyer. There is a morning in Winneba that does not feel like any other morning in Ghana. By 7am, you can hear it. The brass band far away. The drum, shouting and the crowd. If you are in Winneba on that day, you cannot stay in your room. The sound will drag you out. I remember the first time I followed the sound. I thought something had happened. I thought maybe there was a funeral. But when I reached the road, I saw something I had never seen before. Men wearing masks. Big, colourful, scary, beautiful masks. Some looked like animals. Some looked like old white men ...

Alhaji Shot Dead In Ashanti Region

 On Wednesday, October 28,2020, the residence of Asuadei in Ahafo Ano South District in the Ashanti Region woke up to hear the sad news of Alhaji Sadick Abudakar. 

Alhaji Shot Dead In Ashanti Region

Alhaji Sadick Abubakar is a businessman who owns a filling station owner. He was shot dead by unidentified men suspected to be armed robbers. This incident happen at 8pm according to eye witness.

According to eye witness who saw the incident said there were some four men who stormed the facility by giving warning shots. Alhaji Sadick abubakar was subsequently shot dead by the four men.

The four men quickly disappeared from the scene without taking anything from the filing station.