Ghanaian Times

The Ghanaian Times reports that 30 Archaeology students from the University of Ghana led by their lecturer Kadzo Gavua have made discoveries in the Pinkwae Forest, near Katamanso in the Tema District, where the Ashantis and the Ga Adangbes supported by the British fought the historic battle of 1826.

The paper says, the discoveries included ancient pots abandoned by the Ashanti fighters, a metal box containing a pair of scissors, a sword and beads that suggests that the site was once the house of a rich person or an ancestral chief. Also found at another site were a bowl engraved with date, 1800 inscribed on it, human teeth, fishing hook, a coil of copper wire, old gin bottles and several 19th century coins. Dr. Gavua, according to the story, suggests that the place was once used for a kind of worship or African traditional religion. He said trenches used by the Ga Adangbes for guerrilla war against the Ashantis are still present. Items found will first be analysed at the University before deposited at a katamanso museum.

In another front page story, the Times reports also that the Ghana Standards Board (GSB) and the Food and Drugs Board (FDB) has warned that UB Hair Relaxer product, currently on Ghanaian market, causes extensive loss of hair on application. Consumer complaints about quality of the product have been received from Accra, Takoradi and Tema.