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AngloGold Ashanti trains 36 pupils at maiden robotics bootcamp
Thirty-six pupils from eight schools walked into the AngloGold Ashanti Robotics Training Centre as curious children — and emerged five days later as budding engineers, coders, and problem-solvers.
The centre, commissioned in July 2025, is the first of its kind in the Ashanti Region. Its glass doors opened to Primary four pupils and Junior High School students who had never touched a circuit board before.
By the finale, they were wiring electronics, assembling mechanical parts, and presenting prototypes designed to tackle challenges in their own communities.
The grand finale drew, education workers, parents, and members of the community.
Pride rippled through the crowd as pupils demonstrated robots that could collect rubbish, devices to improve water access, and coded solutions for everyday problems.
For AngloGold Ashanti, the bootcamp was more than a showcase. It was the first public test of its 10-year Socio-Economic Development Plan — a deliberate investment in education and innovation.
Edmund Oduro Agyei, Community Relations Manager, reminded the young innovators that technology was already reshaping healthcare, agriculture, and communication.
George Alfred Koomson, Obuasi Municipal Director of Education, praised the initiative and urged that such programmes spread beyond Obuasi.
Delivered in collaboration with the DreamOval Foundation and the Ghana Education Service, the bootcamp has already sparked calls for replication across the region.
Organisers repeatedly described the bootcamp as a ‘novelty.’ In Obuasi, that word carries promise.
FROM KINGSLEY E. HOPE, KUMASI
Miniser for Government Communications, Felix Kwakye Ofosu has revealed a major shake up at Ghana Grid Company Limited (GRIDCo) and the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) following recent power outages.
In a post on Facebook, Felix Kwakye Ofosu disclosed that Minister for Energy and Green Transition, John Jinapor has asked the CEO of GRIDCo to step aside pending investigations into fire incident at Akosombo power control center.
Also, he further noted that there has been a major shake up in the leadership of the ECG in the Ashanti Region.
“At 2pm tomorrow, Minister for Energy and Green Transition, Hon John Jinapor, will hold a major briefing on recent developments in electricity distribution,” he concluded.
By Edem Mensah-Tsotorme
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Abu Trica’s extradition case: Prophets, fetish priests demand pay for spiritual solution …Lawyer reveals
Mr Oliver Barker-Vormawor, a lawyer for embattled Frederick Kumi, affectionately called Abu Trica and has made a shocking revelation over the behaviour of some members of the clergy.
According to him in a post on social media, the difficult part of Abu Trica’s trial is not the law but the number of ‘Men of God’ and fetish priests demanding financial sacrifices to help resolve the matter spiritually.
Oliver Barker-Vormawor posted on Tuesday, April 22, 2026, “The most difficult part about the Abu Trica case; is not the law.”
He continued: “It is the number of, prophetesses, evangelists and fetish priests, who have called or messaged to ask us to pay for spiritual solutions.”
It would be recalled that in March this year, the Gbese District Court dismissed a preliminary objection filed by Abu Trica, challenging the extradition proceedings initiated at the request of the United States.
The court, presided over by Anna Akosua Appiah Gottfried Anaafi Gyasi, in its ruling held that the offences forming the basis of the extradition, particularly wire fraud, constitute extraditable offences under the 1931 treaty between Ghana and the United States.
He was then given 15 days counting from March 27 to appeal the decision of the court or be surrendered for extradition to the US.
Against this backdrop, he was on Tuesday, April 22, granted a bail in the sum of GH¢30,000,000 by an Accra High, pending the appeal of his extradition
Mr Kumi was arrested in Ghana in December 2025 following an indictment by United States authorities, alleging that he played a role in a romance scam network that defrauded elderly American victims of more than $8 million.
By Edem Mensah-Tsotorme
