Chelsea legend Didier Drogba has announced that he is retiring from playing football. The 39-year-old striker, who is playing for Phoenix Rising in America’s USL, has revealed that he is to hang up his boots at the end of the current campaign. Drogba made 381 appearances for Chelsea in two spells, scoring 164 times in the process. He won four ...

Staff of merged telecom companies Tigo and Airtel have been asked to reapply for their jobs a day after the firms morphed into AirtelTigo, Starr News has learnt. Workers who will not be retained after the screening process will receive a cumulative of their three months’ salary multiplied by the number of years they have worked with the firm. The ...

The government is to set aside GH? 480 million in the 2018 Budget for the payment of allowances to teacher and nursing trainees after restoring the allowances for next year. The amount is to be paid to the thousands of nurses and teacher trainees in the various colleges in the country. The allowances, which were scrapped by the previous government ...

Jason Pettigrove on how the much-maligned Belgian has won over the Old Trafford faithful by sheer determination and grit Football might well be the ‘beautiful game,’ but sometimes winning ugly is the way to go, and no one typifies the more rudimentary side of the modern game better than Marouane Fellaini. That’s not to level criticism at the Belgian, far ...

The government’s flagship district industrialisation programme, One District, One Factory (1D1F) is likely to receive a GH¢430 million allocation in next year’s budget, when the Minister of Finance presents the economic policy statement to Parliament on Wednesday. The proposed amount is slightly lower than the GH¢456.3 million budgeted for the programme in the 2017 Under the programme, the government seeks ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is optimistic Ghana will be a great place for private investors in all sectors of the economy to do business under his watch. Speaking at a ceremony to officially cut the sod for the commencement of the affordable housing project by Appolonia City and Ghana Home Loans, President Akufo-Addo said the surest way to deal ...

The government has been urged to be open and transparent with its decision to track projects funded with petroleum revenues across the country. Dr Steve Manteaw, Member of the country’s Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC) said in an interview with Joy News after a GIZ-funded workshop organised by the Institute of Financial and Economic Journalists (IFEJ) and PIAC. According ...

Maverick legal Controversial legal practitioner, Maurice Ampaw, has lashed out at the Founder of Action Chapel International, Archbishop Nicholas Duncan Williams for saying ‘To fight corruption, we have to jail everybody’. The charismatic leader in a sermon to his congregation Sunday said winning the fight against corruption is conditioned on a total change in Ghanaian attitudes. He further stated that ...

The Brong Ahafo Regional Youth Organizer for the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) Kwame Baffoe, has called for an investigation into corrupt practices by the Brong Ahafo Regional Minister Kwaku Asomah Kyeremeh, for awarding contracts to himself. According to Kwame Baffoe, popularly known as Abronye, the New Patriotic Party (NPP), who has declared fight against corrupt practices in the country, ...

The Mayor of Tema Metropolitan Assembly (TMA) Mr Felix Mensah-La has been found guilty for contempt by an Accra High Court for issuing a public notice for the demolition of structures at the Sakumono Ramsar site despite a court injunction. The TMA Mayor was cautioned and ordered by the Court to within 14 days issue another notice “retracting what you ...