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Regina Van Helvert to hold ‘Using Social Media for Business’ seminar

Ghanaian actress and TV and radio personality, Regina Van Helvert is set to start her Campus seminar Tour dubbed ‘Using Social Media for Business.’ The actress some weeks back said she had observed a lot of young people use the internet unproductively, but indicated that it should change to improve the socioeconomic development of Ghana. “I believe Social media penetration ...

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Alvaro Morata suffers grade two hamstring injury

Chelsea striker Alvaro Morata could be out for more than a month after injuring his hamstring during Saturday’s defeat by Manchester City. The 24-year-old, who joined Chelsea for a club record £60m from Real Madrid, is the club’s top scorer with seven goals. Spanish team doctors diagnosed the grade two myofascial injury and he will miss this week’s World Cup ...

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GCB sacks over 700 UT/Capital Banks staff

Over 700 former workers of the now defunct UT and Capital banks are set to lose their jobs as the takeover bank GCB has begun issuing out termination letters. The affected staff have already received letters asking them to proceed home. Starr News understands GCB is only retaining clerical and top management staff of the collapsed banks. Sources have also ...

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Nurses prescribe poisons to ailing public

A Starr News undercover investigation into healthcare delivery in the Upper East region has dredged up some disturbing findings development watchers say can only leave everyone in the country either concerned and safe or aloof but dead alive. The underground mission, undertaken at a number of health facilities, uncovered nurses who have taken up the role of pharmacy technicians and ...

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Man granted GHC 900,000 bail for defrauding Kofi Adams

An Accra Circuit Court has granted businessman, Arnold Kwadwo Asante bail in the sum of GH 900,000 for allegedly defrauding the National Organizer of the NDC, Kofi Adams. The bail condition also entails 6 sureties who are gainfully employed. Lawyer Samuel Koomson based his bail application on the fact that the accused person is very sick. The accused person is ...

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My school is collapsing – Kwaku Manu cries

Kwaku Manu is one of the most industrious Kumawood actors. A very hardworking actor who owns some plethora of businesses and one of them is a school complex named after himself — ‘Kweku Manu Educational Complex’. According to the actor, out of jealousy, backbiting, and gossip, some people are collapsing his school. He attributed the cause of the gradual collapse ...

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Ghana’s Health Sector “Rotten” – Dep. Minister

Ghana’s health sector has been identified as one with the weakest level of accountability, according to a Deputy Health Minister, Kingsley Aboagye Gyedu. Speaking at the launch of the Ghana Association of Doctors in Residency (GADOR) in Kumasi, Mr. Gyedu stated that “health professionals do not want to be accountable”, thereby contributing to the rot in the system. “If free ...

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Nana Addo promises one-student, one-chocolate

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has announced that his government will soon roll out a programme that will see every school going child from basic to the secondary level enjoy free chocolate every day. According to him, this will boost local consumption of cocoa products. Speaking at this year’s World Cocoa Day celebration in Kumasi which coincided with the 70th ...

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