A Gambian beauty queen has accused the country’s former president, Yahya Jammeh, of raping her because she refused to marry him. Giving evidence to the Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission, Fatou Jallow said Mr Jammeh had assaulted her in a locked room to punish her. The Commission was set up to examine alleged abuses by Mr Jammeh during his ...

The Embassy of Israel in Ghana and 102 countries around the world have reopened after a shut down Wednesday. Embassy announced a temporal shutdown via a press release, following a misunderstanding with the Finance Ministry of Israel. A statement from the embassy copied to Starr News said: “Due to the decision of the Israeli Ministry of Finance to breach understandings ...

Entertainment journalist, MzGee, has officially resigned from The Multimedia Group. GhanaWeb’s sources at the Kokomlemle-based media organisation say the resignation of the broadcaster known in real life as Gloria Akpene Acquah, is effective today, November 1, 2019. It is unclear where she heads next but our sources say her former employers are in talk with her to rescind her decision ...

Former Finance Minister Seth Terkper has condemned the government for the taxes it has levied since taking office in 2017. Speaking to JoyNews’ UpFront show, he said Ghanaians are “paying more taxes than they did in 2016,” under John Mahama, a situation which deviates from what the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) promised, he said. Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia, for instance, slammed the ...

If there is any process ongoing to reconcile former President Jerry John Rawlings and his successor-president, John Agyekum Kufuor, well, it has failed on arrival as the former is again accusing the latter of being the cause of floods and general construction indiscipline in Ghana. Mr Rawlings posits that Kufuor is the pacesetter for illegal structures that stand in waterways, ...

Reverend Francis Antwi aka Rev. Obofour who was invited by the Greater Accra Regional Police Command on Thursday, 31st October, 2019, for allowing a man to smoke Indian hemp in his church has responded to the invite. According to the man of God in a statement to the police, he was in the spiritual realm and as such did not ...

A big mammal believed to be a whale has been washed ashore at Bakano in Sekondi. This has attracted many people from all walks of life to move to the scene to catch a glimpse of the mammal. Not even the offensive stench could stop the residents from tripping to the shore. Some concerned residents told Empire News’ Emmanuel Ohene-Gyan ...

The Interior Minister, Ambrose Dery has dismissed claims that the recent spate of kidnappings is new to Ghana. Defending his assertion, Mr. Dery said the country has recorded some 504 kidnapping cases since 2011. The GNA reports that the Minister was addressing Regional, Divisional and District Crime Officers at the opening of a two-day annual conference when he made the ...

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has alleged that the government is using subterfuge means to campaign in Senior High School across the country. According to the biggest opposition party, persons who brand themselves as ambassadors for the revolutionary Free Senior High School policy go to the schools purposely to campaign for the government with the 2020 general elections looming. In ...

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