The Ministry of Finance has ordered the Controller and Accountant General’s Department to release an amount of GHS49,998,626.72 to the Ghana Education Service (GES) to settle outstanding salaries and transfer grants of its staff. The letter that gave the order was signed by Deputy Minister of Finance, Abena Osei Asare on Wednesday, 11 December 2019. It said: “You (CAGD) are ...

A failed Chairman-aspirant of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr Richard Amoako Baah, has revealed that despite President Nana Akufo-Addo relaying a message through the First Lady to him for a meeting, the “gatekeepers” at the Jubilee House have refused to grant him access to the President for the past two months. “Some of them will even tell you ...

A five member-panel of the Supreme Court presided over by Justice Anin Yeboah has dismissed an application by Dr. Stephen Opuni seeking a special leave of the apex court to appeal against a Court of Appeal decision. Aaron Mensah, lawyer of Dr Opuni argued that there was an error on the face of the decision made by the Court of ...

Staff of the Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo) are to begin a sit-down strike from Wednesday December 11 over the mounting debts which they say is crippling the company. The move is part of a series of actions the staff have resolved to adopt in getting authorities to address their concerns. An internal memo sighted by Starr News said emergency services will ...

Spokesperson for the Rawlings family, Ernest Owusu Bempah, has brushed aside accusations that the former president orchestrated and sponsored the extrajudicial killings of some former army personnel shortly after the 1979 revolution. Former close associate of Mr Rawlings and one of the architects of the June 4 Uprising, Major Osahene Boakye Gyan had suggested in recent media interview that Mr ...

A failed Chairman-aspirant of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr Richard Amoako Baah, has revealed that despite President Nana Akufo-Addo relaying a message through the First Lady to him for a meeting, the “gatekeepers” at the Jubilee House have refused to grant him access to the President for the past two months. “Some of them will even tell you ...

Spokesperson for the Rawlings family, Ernest Owusu Bempah, has brushed aside accusations that the former president orchestrated and sponsored the extrajudicial killings of some former army personnel shortly after the 1979 revolution. Former close associate of Mr Rawlings and one of the architects of the June 4 Uprising, Major Osahene Boakye Gyan had suggested in recent media interview that Mr ...

Arsenal and former Germany international Mesut Ozil has expressed his delight by the renaming of a Ghanaian youth club after him. A post on social media shows a gathering of excited kids clad in Arsenal jerseys, all with the player’s name written on their backs. Also among the gathering is his agent Erkut Sogut. “Abiriw Ozil Football Club. Nice to have a football ...

The ruling New Patriotic Party(NPP) has served notice that it will not withdraw the nomination of the Director-General of the National Communications Authority(NCA) Joe Anokye as its representative at Inter-Party Advisory Committee (IPAC) meetings. The opposition NDC has raised red flags over the NPP’s choice of Joe Anokye as a representative at an IPAC meeting to discuss a new procurement ...

The state is losing more than GH¢3 million a month to an illegal scheme that diverts international calls into local ones, according to the Ghana Chamber of Telecommunications. Known as sim box fraud, the illegality is perpetrated by Ghanaians and their international partners who route international calls through the Internet and terminate them on local mobile phone numbers to attract ...