Ashesi University College has awarded a scholarship worth $50,000 to Tubare Kolah to undertake a four-year engineering programme at the university. The scholarship covers his full tuition and any other amenities needed to successfully undertake the degree programme. On Monday, Joy News broke the touching story of 20-year old Tubare whose mother was driven out of marriage when he was ...

Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has defended the International Criminal Court (ICC) dismissing claims that it is bent on jailing African leaders. He was speaking in the wake of calls by the African Union (AU) for the mass withdrawal of member states from the ICC in January, after a divisive debate at its annual heads of state summit in ...

Arsenal stepped up their preparations in training Thursday as they get ready to take on Leicester City in their Premier League curtain raiser against Leicester City tonight. The Gunners are without the injured Alexis Sanchez for the game at the Emirates Stadium, but looked in good spirits ahead of the night fixture. Sanchez may be out of the game, but ...

Ghana head coach Kwesi Appiah joined his assistant Maxwell Konadu the handler of the home-based Black Stars in the Burkina Faso capital of Ouagadougou on Thursday evening, ahead of the side’s clash with the Local Stallions in the 2018 CHAN qualifier. The team had left Ghana on Wednesday evening for Burkina Faso without Kwesi Appiah who, according to sources, was ...

The Works and Housing Minister has assured land owners at Adjen Kotuku in the Greater Accra region that government will pay their over ¢1 million compensation in two weeks time. Samuel Atta-Akyea said he is aware a committee is studying the reports to come out with its recommendations but it ought to be nudged into action. “We should not give ...

The family of the deceased man who drowned in the Boti Falls is blaming management of the tourism facility for safety negligence. Jeremiah Bediako met his untimely death in an attempt to rescue his American friend who was drowning. An uncle to the deceased, Paul Atta, told Starr News the management of the facility must be blamed over their failure ...

US Defence Secretary James Mattis has said America still hopes to solve the North Korea crisis using diplomacy. After days of fiery rhetoric from both the US and North Korea, Mr Mattis said war would be “catastrophic” and that diplomacy was gaining results. Pyongyang on Thursday announced it was finalising a plan to fire four missiles near the US territory ...

Hundreds of Muslims embarking on the Hajj pilgrimage are stranded in Tamale due to an emergency at the destination country – Mecca. About 500 pilgrims were expected to be airlifted from the Tamale International Airport Thursday at 8.30pm but the flight was cancelled. Airport managers have hinted the problem is coming from source and are working frantically to fix the ...

Alfred Agbesi Woyome, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) financier, says it’s an error for the Attorney General (AG) to haul him before the Supreme Court over the GH¢51.2 million judgement debt paid to him by the state. According to the visibly miffed businessman, there already exists a payment plan between him and the AG, and wondered why he had been ...

MANCHESTER UNITED are looking to add to their squad with the end of the transfer window less than a month away. Express Sport brings you latest updates from Old Trafford. MANCHESTER UNITED TRANSFER NEWS LIVE UPDATES: All the latest on Gareth Bale, Serge Aurier, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and more… Thursday August 10 Darmian: I never gave up on United dream 09:20: ...