Education Minister, Dr Matthew Opoku-Prempeh says the President’s comment about the disconnect between Ghana’s educational curricula and the job requirements was distorted. President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in his address at the 50th Anniversary of the Association of African Universities in Accra last week said a university education in the country no longer guarantees a job. He said the situation ...

The Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) is currently investigating supposedly fraudulent payments at the Youth Employment Agency (YEA) to beneficiaries in 216 districts, Chief Executive Officer Justine Frimpong has disclosed. The payments amount to over GH¢20 million, the Acting CEO said on Wednesday while addressing journalists. Mr Frimpong said some 2,716 beneficiaries, who had no official appointment letters, have been ...

Captain (Rtd) Dennis Mahama – father of the late Major Maxwell Mahama – has said he was really pleased with his son’s posthumous promotion by President Akufo-Addo. Retired Captain Dennis Mahama told Francis Abban on Morning Starr that he was very hurt his son died without going beyond a Captain. “I personally thought that my son having taken the same ...

IK Sirius midfielder Kingsley Sarfo has turned his back on Ghana and will play international football for Sweden, according to national Under-21 coach Hakan Ericson. Sarfo was born in Ghana’s second largest city, Kumasi but moved to the Scandinavian country only three years ago. The 22-year-old was part was handed a debut call-up by Ghana ahead of the 2019 Africa ...

Editor-in-chief of the New Crusading Guide Newspaper has said former President Jerry Rawlings is unfit to give sermons on corruption. According to Kweku Baako, the ex-president presided over stinking corruption scandals including the famous British construction firm Mabey and Johnson scandal which cited key officials of the Rawlings administration for taking bribes. He also mocked at the ex-president for suggesting ...

With just two days to go before English football’s transfer window slides open, news and rumors of comings and goings in the Premier League are rife. On Friday, June 9, clubs will have an opportunity to improve: right the wrongs of last season by signing a dependable center back to retain Premier League status; capture that 20-goal-a-season striker who can ...

President Donald Trump announced Wednesday he is nominating Christopher A. Wray, a former United States Department of Justice official, to serve as FBI director. If the Senate confirms the nomination, Wray will replace James Comey, whom the president fired on May 9. “I will be nominating Christopher A. Wray, a man of impeccable credentials, to be the new Director of ...

The High Court has ordered the Electoral Commission to produce evidence of concrete steps it is taking to implement a law – the ROPAA (Representation of the People (Amendment) Act, 2006 [Act 699] – allowing Ghanaians abroad to vote in national elections. Justice Anthony Yeboah gave the order after the EC stated in its defence in a case before the ...

Shortly after Muhammad Ali died last June, a story surfaced about his estranged son, Muhammad Ali Jr., living in poverty in Chicago’s South Side. Although a subsequent report claimed that Ali Jr. received his portion of the $80 million inheritance that the late boxing great and global sports icon left to his children and widow, the 45-year-old claims that he ...

Ghanaian actor John Dumelo has hailed President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for posthumously promoting the military officer who was murdered in broad daylight at Denkyira-Obuasi in the Central Region. The President Akufo-Addo who is the Commander-in-Chief of the Ghana Armed Forces on Monday announced the promotion of Captain Maxwell Adam Mahama from the rank of Captain to Major, during the ...