The Daily Guide newspaper has said it owes no apology to a group called Kumasi Youth Association for publishing a story that suggested their monarch Otumfuo Osei Tutu II was involved in a £350,000 money laundering scandal in the UK. Some members of the youth group on Wednesday, 18 October 2017 locked up the Kumasi office of the newspaper in ...
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Gov’t To Launch National Digital Address System Today
The much publicized national digital property address system will be launched today. The location-based system will provide an effective means of addressing every location to facilitate the implementation of key government policies. Vokacom, a Ghanaian Information Technology firm, designed the system at the cost of 2.5 million dollars. The digital address system will be a precursor to the National Identification ...
Read More »Outgoing CID boss accuses Kan Dapaah & Ken Agyapong of being behind his removal
The outgoing Director General of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID), Commissioner of Police (COP), Mr Bright Oduro has broken his silence on the directive for him to proceed on leave prior to retirement on January 3, 2018, and says he has unfairly been pushed out of the Police Service. Mr Bright Oduro was appointed as CID boss in January 2017 ...
Read More »Minority to boycott discussion on withdrawal of AMERI deal
The Mines and Energy Committee of Parliament will today hold a crucial meeting over the $510 million AMERI Power deal. The meeting will discuss the motion of rescission filed by Adansi Asokwa Member of Parliament, K.T Hammond in August. He’d argued that the House rescinds its decision taken in March 2015 to pass the agreement between government and AMERI, citing ...
Read More »Woman Sets World Record For Running Marathon In High Heels
A retired professional ballroom dancer in Tennessee set a world record by running an entire marathon in high heels.Irene Sewell shared photos of herself following the Guinness World Record-breaking performance as she managed to complete the 26.2-mile race in the high-heeled shoes. “Well world, I DID IT. I’m still in shock, but it really happened,” she wrote this week. “I ...
Read More »NDC ditches technology, goes for manual registration for members
The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) says it will conduct fresh registration exercise of its members after a frustrating experience with the biometric method caused disaffection. At a press conference Tuesday, the party’s National Chairman, Kofi Portuphy, said the biometric roll “did not meet the standards required to make it qualified to be a biometric register”. A June 2015 exercise ...
Read More »Proceed On Leave Directive “Sad, Unfair” – Former CID Boss
The outgoing Director General of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID), Commissioner of Police (COP), Mr. Bright Oduro says he has been treated unfairly by the Police Service. According to him, after 29 years of diligent service to the state security, he expected to be treated with dignity and not to be pushed out of the service unfairly. Mr. Oduro who ...
Read More »A/R: Fresh Lifeless Baby Found In Subin River
Traders of the Abinchi market were on Tuesday thrown into a state of shock when they discovered the lifeless body of a fresh baby girl wrapped in a polythene bag. Scrap dealers picking up metals washed into the Subin drains chanced on a bizarre object and dragged it to shore in curiosity. The content which drew crowds to the place ...
Read More »Kumasi Youth Attack Daily Guide Office Over Otumfuo Report
The offices of the Daily Guide newspaper in Kumasi in the Ashanti region has reportedly been invaded by some people believed to be members of the Kumasi Youth Association, Starr News has learnt. The youth group is attacking the media house over its report on the recent banking case in the UK which mentioned the Otumfuo Osei Tutu – a ...
Read More »I’m just being sarcastic – Okudzeto Ablakwa on closure of his fuel stations
Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Sam Okudzeto Ablakwa has succeeded in getting the attention of Ghanaians on Facebook and Twitter as they read his post, Tuesday morning. In the post, the legislator calls on authorities to demolish all his fuel stations as they all pose a danger to society. He adds that he will readily subject himself to the ...
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