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

Image
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 ...

5 Killed In Horrific Accident On The Obuasi-Dunkwa Road

Five people have died after a Toyota Hilux pick-up and a Mercedes Sprinter bus they were travelling in was involved in an horrific accident on the Obuasi-Dunkwa road on Saturday November 14,2020.

5 Killed In Horrific Accident On The Obuasi-Dunkwa Road


According to available information, the pick-up vehicle with registration number GC 9888-20 was driving from Obuasi direction towards Dunkwa with four persons on board at about 6:40 p.m on Saturday.The driver, on reaching a section of the road at the outskirts of Adinkra, allegedly attempted to overtake another vehicle.

The deceased include the driver of the pick-up vehicle identified as Alhaji Mustapha Iddrisu, aged 50.Seventeen others who are in critical condition are on admission at the Obuasi Government and Anglogold Ashanti hospitals.

Ashanti Regional Commander of the Police Motor, Traffic and Transport Department (MTTD), Superintendent Emmanuel Adu Boahen said,“This is an avoidable accident. This nasty scenario could have been avoided had the driver of the pick-up exercised a little patience."

The bodies of the deceased have also been deposited at the hospital for autopsy and burial.

But in the process veered off his lane and collided with the Sprinter bus with registration number AW 6620-13.The bus had about 18 passengers onboard.