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 ...

Storey Building Threatens Lives In Accra

Some concerned residents of Ashaley Botwe, a suburb of Accra, have expressed concern over a six- storey building under construction in their locality.


Storey Building Threatens Lives In Accra


The building which is being constructed at School Junction has been described as a death trap.

Some individuals also called on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to halt the construction of the building as it poses a threat to human lives.

However, according to reports, authorities from the EPA has ordered the contractor to lay down his tools.

Mr Henry Kwabena Kokofu who is the Executive Director of the EPA visited the site this morning and ordered that the construction work should be halted.

According to him, the agency has not approved the construction of such building.

Information gathered shows that the owner of the building is a top government official.