Small scale miners in the Ashanti region are hitting the streets today, September 12, to demonstrate against the ban on their operations. In April this year, the Lands and Natural Resources Minister John Peter Amewu imposed a six- month ban on small scale mining in a bid to fight illegal mining. But the small scale miners in the Ashanti Region ...

The Deputy Sports Minister Enam Pius Hadzedi has exclusively told Starr FM Sports that officials of the Ghana Athletics Association (GAA) will be probed over the 84, 000 Dollar budget for this year’s IAAF championships. The sports ministry through the national sports authority gave out 84,000 dollars to the Ghana Athletics Association to cater for their participation which included accommodation, ...

A 28-year-old Ghanaian ‘scholar’ and former student of the University of Cape Coast (UCC) who was last week in the news for achieving academic laurels from the University of Amsterdam, has been exposed as it turned out that all the 5 awards he claimed to have won were all fake. Sebastian Roy Osumanu claimed to have been the most successful ...

Award-winning rapper, Sarkodie, has disclosed it took him two years to put together his latest album “Highest” which was released on Friday, September 8, 2017. ‘Highest’ which is his fifth studio album is a collection of 15 brand new songs, three interludes, and a bonus track, making 19 tracks in total. Sarkodie told Giovani and Anita Erskine on Starr Drive ...

The Minister of Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs, Kofi Dzemasi has reiterated government’s neutrality in handling the age-long Dagbon chieftaincy feud between Abudus and Andanis. According to him, government’s renewed commitment to help stakeholders mediating the Dagbon chieftaincy find a lasting solution to the problem is not for political gains. He was speaking in Tamale at the official launch of a ...

The woes of embattled Ghanaian Comedienne, Afia Schwarzenegger born Valentina Agyeiwaa continue to worsen by the day as accounts she gave concerning her husband, Lawrence Abrokwa appears to be conflicting. According to her, their marriage hit the rocks two months earlier before the infamous leaked tape and associated problems. She was also reported to have claimed that the guy in ...

Failed Member of Parliament aspirant, Diamond Appiah has reigned curses on one lady with Instagram handle @Agyeiwaa_adjei. The the lady using the account allegedly accused Diamond of sleeping with Ghana’s only “human Angel”, Angel Daniel Obinim. To make the world know that the claims of the lady are false, Afia Schwarzenegger’s bitter rival, Diamond Appiah has cursed the lady behind ...

The Pope John Senior High School (POJOSS) in Koforidua has rejected wooden Chop box brought to the school by some beneficiaries of the Free Senior High School on Monday. The school says it will only allow trunks – Metallic boxes meant for the storage of food and cloths by students. The school authorities explained that the decision is part of ...

The management of the South Africa Football Association ( SAFA) will meet today to discuss the way forward on FIFA’s ruling that South Africa must replay their 2018 World Cup qualifier with Senegal. Bafana Bafana won the match 2-1 in Polokwane last year, but FIFA ordered a replay for November after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) upheld a ...

JOYNEWS investigation has revealed that Municipal and District Assemblies across the country are struggling with a heavy burden of debt after they were “forced” to sign a waste landfills management contract with one of the of the subsidiaries of the Jospong Group, Waste Landfills Limited. The 210 municipal and district assemblies do not have engineered landfills sites but the contract ...