Ghana is hosting the 5th ECOWAS Presidential Task Force Meeting on the Single Currency Programme from the 17th – 21st February, 2018 at the Accra International Conference Centre. The four-day meeting is being chaired by Ghana’s President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. The President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, H. E. Muhammadu Buhari; President of the Republic of Cote d’ ...

Two new language services have been launched by the BBC World Service for Igbo and Yoruba speakers in Nigeria and West and Central Africa. Their digital content is mainly aimed at audiences who use mobile phones. Igbo is primarily spoken in south-east Nigeria and Yoruba in the south-west, as well as in Benin and Togo. The new services are part ...

The National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) has called on the Ghana Education Service to come clear over reports that they want the closing time of teachers to be extended. The teacher union claims some head teachers have asked their staff to extend instructional hours without the consent of their mother union. Speaking to Francis Abban on the Morning Starr ...

TRANSFER news LIVE – follow the latest updates here. Transfer news LIVE updates: Follow the latest news and gossip Dembele future latest 09.05: Antoine Griezmann thinks Barcelona are reluctant to let Ousmane Dembele leave the Nou Camp, according to reports. Barcelona want Griezmann to join from Atletico in the summer despite tying up deals for Dembele and Philippe Coutinho in ...

Six mourners including two children and a pregnant woman have died in a boat accident on the Volta Lake at Affram Plains North District of the Eastern Region. The accident occurred on Saturday at about 5pm. The outboard motor canoe which had nine passengers on board, all mourners returning to the Bumbe Community after attending a funeral at Foekope encountered a strong windstorm on ...

PSG star Neymar does not want to play against Real Madrid in the second leg of their Champions League clash, according to sensational reports. Real Madrid are determined to make Neymar their marquee summer arrival despite the Brazil international only joining PSG back in August. The France international has been in stunning form all season and took his tally to ...

Celebrated dancehall artiste, Shatta Wale has invoked God’s wrath against all the people who heavily criticised her late colleague, Ebony Reigns when she was alive. “God if you are here and you are watching the enemies, I want you to strike them,” an emotional “Kakai” hitmaker said at the one-week celebration of Ebony’s passing at Dansoman in Accra. He did ...

Germany and Bayern Munich defender Jerome Boateng will be making a trip to Ghana, the country of his father, for the first time. Born to a Ghanaian father and a German mother in Berlin, the 29-year-old won the Fifa World Cup with Die Mannschaft in 2014. “I have been to Africa but I didn’t go to Ghana,” Boateng told DW. ...

Ebony was expected to act as brand ambassador for one of the products of alcoholic beverage company, Kasapreko, radio presenter ‘Abeiku Santana’ has revealed. Gilbert Abeiku Aggrey who goes by the name ‘Santana’ made the revelation during the ‘one week’ memorial for the late dancehall prodigy. Santana who is the Master of Ceremony at the event held at Dansoman in ...

President Akufo-Addo will today host and facilitate a dialogue between the Togolese government and all opposition parties in Togo to find a lasting solution to the political unrest in the French speaking West African country. Today’s meeting is a follow up to several private meetings the President has had with all the parties since assuming office. The Director of Communications ...