It appears efforts by President Akufo-Addo and his government to curb illegal mining is being thwarted by some state security personnel for their own parochial interest. A video clip has emerged implicating a man said to be a national security personnel. Evans Kwarfo who did not know he was under investigation by Anas Aremeyaw Anas and his Tiger Eye PI ...

Michael Oliver gave Real Madrid a penalty which saw them edge past Juventus Juve keeper Gianluigi Buffon was then sent off for his reaction to the decision Real converted the spot-kick to knock Juve out of Europe 4-3 on aggregate Juve chief Andrea Agnelli blasted Oliver, claiming he and UEFA were anti-Italian Juventus president Andrea Agnelli blasted Michael Oliver after ...

Businessman and politician Robert Asare-Bediako, who was contesting in the Ashanti Regional Chairmanship race of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), has thrown in the towel. He told Chief Jerry Forson on Ghana Yensom on Accra100.5FM on Thursday, 12 April that his decision was meant to unite the NPP ahead of the 2020 presidential and parliamentary elections. “This will unite ...

Former Deputy Minister of Power, John Abdulai Jinapor, has refuted claims by the Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC) that 50 per cent of oil-funded projects are non-existent. “The report is not just misleading, but a clear attempt to twist facts and to serve political parochial interest,” the Member of Parliament (MP) for Yapei/Kusawgu Constituency stated on Wednesday, 11 April ...

The Managing News Editor of the Insight Newspaper Kwesi Pratt Jnr has accused minority MPs of betraying the country by failing to challenge the Defense Minister at the committee meeting that approved the controversial US-Ghana military deal. “When this agreement was finally ratified, I was in Parliament House and to my embarrassment, Dominic Nitiwul, the Defense Minister wrote the list ...

The Ranking Member on the Foreign Affairs Committee in Parliament, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has advised President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to channel his energy into addressing concerns raised by Ghanaians in relation to the Ghana-US defence cooperation agreement and not the defenceless minority. Mr Akufo-Addo in his address to the nation about the Ghana-US defence deal which has been mired ...

Head of late highlife musician, Daasebre Gyamenah’s family, Godfred Oti has described controversies that have succeeded the musician’s death as worrying. The death of the musician has been saddled with endless family squabbles. Initially, it was the dispute between the maternal and paternal family over ownership of his mortal remains which ended in court. The latest on the bill are ...

Lawyers of former Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), Dr Stephen Opuni, have said it is only fair that the Attorney General furnishes them with documents the state is relying on in prosecuting Dr Opuni and businessman Seidu Agongo. According to the spokesperson of the legal team, Edudzi Tamakloe, the Attorney General cannot blindfold the accused persons ...

The Israeli ambassador to Ghana Ami Mehl has denied refusing Visa to Ghanaian MP Ras Mubarak who was scheduled to speak at a conference at Palestine. The National Democratic Congress MP for Kumbungu was traveling under the aegis of the Palestinian Authority to present a paper in Ramallah. “It is true and very unfortunate,” Mr. Mubarak told Starr News from ...

Deputy Minister of Education, Mr Osei Yaw Adutwum says the implementation of the free senior high school was a deliberate policy by the government to improve the literacy level amongst the citizenry. He said the nation had no choice but to move on that tangent to train and build the kind of skilled human resources needed to speed up her ...