Gomoa Mpota | |
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Nickname: Ffdlykko | |
Coordinates: 5°24′18″N0°37′14″W / 5.40500°N 0.62056°W | |
Country | Ghana |
Region | Central Region |
Time zone | GMT |
• Summer (DST) | GMT |
Gomoa Mpota is a located town in the Central Region of Ghana. [1]
The Central Region is one of the sixteen administrative regions of Ghana. Ashanti and Eastern regions border it to the north, Western region to the west, Greater Accra region to the east, and the Gulf of Guinea to the south. The Central Region is renowned for its many elite high schools and an economy based on an abundance of industrial minerals and tourism. The Central region boasts of many tourist attractions, such as castles, forts and beaches dotted along the region's coastline.
Ama Benyiwa-Doe aka Ama Chavez was a Ghanaian politician who served as Regional Minister for Central Region.
Feyenoord Academy was a Ghanaian football club and the biggest football academy in Ghana based in Goma Fetteh, and was founded by Feyenoord from Rotterdam. They played in the Ghanaian Premier League.
Gomoa East is one of the constituencies represented in the Parliament of Ghana. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. Gomoa East is located in the Gomoa district of the Central Region of Ghana.
Apam is a coastal town and capital of Gomoa West District in the Central Region of Ghana, located approximately 45 kilometers east of the Central Region capital, Cape Coast.
'Gomoa East Metropolitan Assembly is one of the twenty-two districts in Central Region, Ghana. Originally it was formerly part of the then-larger Gomoa District in 1988, until the eastern part of the district was split off to create the first Gomoa East District, with Gomoa Afransi as its capital town, on 29 February 2008 ; thus the remaining part has been renamed as Gomoa West District. The district assembly is located in the southeast part of Central Region and has Potsin as its capital town. In November, 2024, the Gomoa East district was elevated from District Assembly status to a Metropolitan Assembly. It's the second Metropolis in the central region, with Cape-Coast Metropolitan Assembly as the first in the central region <ref><ref>Online, Peace FM. "Ghana Post Collapsed In Most Districts In The Central Region". Peacefmonline.com - Ghana news. Retrieved 2022-05-16.<ref><ref>Online, CNR. "Akuffo-Addo approves upgrade of districts to municipalities".
Gomoa West District is one of the twenty-two districts in Central Region, Ghana. Originally it was formerly part of the then-larger Gomoa District in 1988, until the eastern part of the district was split off to create the first Gomoa East District, with Gomoa Afransi as its capital town, on 29 February 2008 ; thus the remaining part has been renamed as Gomoa West District. Its population is 44,834 people. The district assembly is located in the southeast part of Central Region and has Apam as its capital town.
Gomoa West is one of the constituencies represented in the Parliament of Ghana. Its boundaries are similar to those of the Gomoa West District in the Central Region of Ghana. The current constituency boundaries have been in place from prior to the 2012 Ghanaian general election. This followed the creation of 45 new constituencies to take the total number of constituencies from 230 to 275.
Afransi is a small town and is the capital of Gomoa East district in the Central Region of Ghana, Ghana.
Rachel Florence Appoh is a Ghanaian politician and former National Democratic Congress (NDC) member of Parliament for Gomoa Central Constituency, Central Region of Ghana. Formerly the Deputy Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, she was succeeded by Naana Ayiah Quansah during the 2016 parliamentary elections
Naana Eyiah is a member of parliament for the constituency. She was elected on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party (Ghana)|New Patriotic Party (NPP) and won a majority of 14,178 votes to become the MP. She succeeded Rachel Florence Appoh who had represented the constituency in the same year on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) with minority votes of 12,858.
Naana Eyiah is a Ghanaian politician and a member of the New Patriotic Party. She is currently the member of parliament for Gomoa Central Constituency in the Central Region of Ghana. She is currently the Deputy Minister for Interior.
Kojo Asemanyi is a Ghanaian politician and member of the Seventh Parliament of the Fourth Republic of Ghana representing the Gomoa East Constituency in the Central Region on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party. An Elder of the Church of Pentecost and a Christian, he is a husband and a father.
Francis Kojo Arthur is a former member of the Sixth Parliament of the Fourth Republic of Ghana, representing the Gomoa West Constituency in Central region of Ghana.
Thomas Kweku Aubyn is a Ghanaian politician and a member of the Second Parliament of the Fourth Republic representing the Gomoa East Constituency in the Central Region of Ghana.
Franis Kow Bortsie-Ansah is a Ghanaian politician who was a member of the first Parliament of the Fourth Republic representing the Gomoa East in the Central Region on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress.
Gomoa Central District is one of the twenty-two districts in Central Region, Ghana. Originally it was formerly part of the then-larger Gomoa District in 1988, until the eastern part of the district was split off to create the first Gomoa East District, with Gomoa Afransi as its capital town, on 29 February 2008 ; thus the remaining part has been renamed as Gomoa West District. The district assembly is located in the southeast part of Central Region and has Gomoa Afransi as its capital town.
The Gomoa Onyaadze Solar Power Station is an operational grid-connected 20 megawatts (27,000 hp) solar power plant, in Ghana. The privately owned power station sells its power to the Power Distribution Services Ghana (PDSG), formerly Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), under a long-term power purchase agreement.
Richard Gyan-Mensah is a Ghanaian politician and member of the National Democratic Congress. He is the member of parliament for the Gomoa West Constituency in the Central Region of Ghana.
Nyanyano is a community in the Gomoa East District in the Central Region of Ghana. It is located about 20 km south-west of Accra and about 6 km south of Kasoa.