The Sekondi Takoradi Metropolitan Area, with Sekondi as the administrative capital, occupies the south-eastern part of Western Region. It shares boundaries with Ahanta West, Shama and Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem Municipal. It is located on the coast, about 200km west of Accra.
This makes it the smallest, but easily the most highly developed of the 13 districts of the Western Region. Indeed, it is the third largest metropolis in the whole of Ghana. Close to Takoradi Polytechnic, the Konsaworado flows towards the Buthia lagoon, creating an extensive, beautiful marshland. The Essei lagoon lies between Ekuase and Takoradi.
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Six deprived schools in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis have received assorted items worth GHs 27,000, which includes 3,000 pieces of exercise book and 1,500 ball pens.
SEKONDI: MP desilts choked drain for Kweikuma area In a bid to improve sanitary conditions in the area, the Member Parliament (MP) for the Sekondi Constituency, Papa Owusu-Ankomah has financed the desilting of a stagnant earth drain in the Kweikuma electoral area in the Sekondi Takoradi Metropolis.
SEKONDI: Set quality standards - Paramount Chief Nana Kobina Nketsia V, Omanhene of Essikado Traditional Area, has appealed to companies springing up in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis to operate in line with professional and Ghanaian standards to achieve excellence.
TAKORADI: NGO hands over sanitation facility to schools CHF International, a non-governmental organisation has constructed a 12-seater sanitation facility for a cluster of basic schools at Kojokrom near Takoradi, at the cost of GH₵40,000.
The Sekondi Takoradi Metropolis, formally known as Shama Ahanta East Metropolis, is the capital of the Western region. The metropolis can boost of many tourist attraction and developmental projects. It host one of the national sport stadiums in the country and the first harbour in the country, making the metropolis more easy and accesible for investors to put up industries.
The security stand in the metroplis is very high that each and every individual thinking of establishing in this metropolis is assured of peace and freedom to operate without fear ... more »
