Strategic Thinkers Network-Africa, a public interest advocacy group, has filed a suit at the Accra High Court to have the transaction involving the sale of contaminated fuel by the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation (BOST) Company Limited to Movenpinaa Energy and others rendered “null and void”. Cited in the suit are the National Petroleum Authority (NPA), BOST, Managing Director of ...

Venus Williams has filed an emergency court order in the wrongful death case brought by the family of a man killed in car crash involving the tennis star. Williams, 37, filed the emergency protective order on Wednesday claiming that the daughter of Jerome Barson, the man who died in the crash, gave Williams’ lawyer less than 24 hours notice that ...

Seven persons have died in a head-on collision on the Tema-Kpong road. Ten other persons who were seriously injured in the Wednesday crash are receiving treatment at the Akuse government Hospital. The accident occurred wehn a DAF truck traveling from Tema to Kpong collided with a Toyata Hiace transporting passengers from the opposite direction of the same. Three passengers died ...

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) MP for Adansi Asokwa has snubbed president Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo after being sidelined in the elephant-size ministerial appointments. The outspoken lawmaker has rejected a board chairmanship offer from the president because he feels he is gone past such post, having served as a deputy energy minister in the erstwhile Kufuor administration. Starrfmonline.com can confirm ...

CHELSEA looked to have been left standing last night after Manchester United turned the head of Romelu Lukaku with a five-year contract worth £250,000 a week. Sources close to the Everton striker had maintained all along that he had wanted to return to Chelsea, the club he left in 2014. But his agent, Mino Raiola, is close to United and ...

Eight people – including seven children – have died in a stampede ahead of a football match in Malawi, police say. Dozens more were injured in the crush at Lilongwe’s Bingu national stadium. The stampede happened as thousands of people rushed for seats ahead of a friendly between top sides Nyasa Big Bullets and Silver Strikers. Despite the deaths, the ...

Ghanaian Dancehall act, Theophilus Nii Arday Otoo, known in showbiz circles as Epixode says there are no female Dancehall artists in Ghana. The ‘My Zimbabwean Girl’ hitmaker who was speaking in an interview with Joy Prime said although some Ghanaian female artists have the looks and style for the genre, they are not doing Dancehall. “I don’t know of any ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo, says it is the expectation of government and Ghanaians that the Offshore Cape Three Point (OCTP) partners will ensure prudent management of the Sankofa oil and gas project to achieve cost efficiency. This, according to President Akufo-Addo, is the only way low gas prices can be guaranteed, and, eventually, low electricity tariffs to stimulate development. “With the ...

A Deputy Minister of Education under the former NDC administration, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has responded to Dome-Kwabenya MP’s claim that cited the erstwhile Mahama administration allegedly taking undue credit for the Kwabenya Community Senior High School(SHS) established in her constituency. The Member of Parliament for Dome-Kwabenya, Sarah Adwoa Safo has said it is absurd for the erstwhile NDC administration to ...

Cocoa farmers have hailed the decision by the government to subsidize fertilizer stressing that it will help in ensuring that they get the right quality and quantity for their businesses. They said the previous policy by the former administration to provide fertilizer free of charge, did not help them since many farmers did not get the right quantities needed. It ...