After immediately ending his tour of the Ashanti Region, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is beginning one in the Eastern Region. The tour of his home region will take three days – from Tuesday to Thursday, October 7. President Akufo-Addo is expected to tour some sites of ongoing government projects and commission completed ones. Just like previous tours, he will ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo has said he has no favourite in the flag bearer race of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP). “My duty is in two folds: one is; first of all, to hold a balance to make sure there is a level playing field for all of them [flag bearer hopefuls] because the decision has to be the decision ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo has dismissed claims that his government has abandoned the Ashanti Region which is tagged as NPP’s electoral “world bank”. The NPP since the fourth Republic in 1992 has won both in the Presidential and Parliamentary elections in the region. President Akufo-Addo has been slammed by his critics for failing to embark on any major development in the ...

Mark Zuckerberg’s net worth is nosediving amid revelations from a whistleblower and Monday’s widespread Facebook outages. Zuckerberg’s net worth dipped by $7 billion in a matter of hours as a stock selloff prompted Facebook to fall by roughly 5%. Zuckerberg’s wealth has now dropped to $120.9 billion, making him the fifth-richest person in the world behind Bill Gates, according to ...

Mathematics and Science teachers have been urged to adopt practical, child-centred and play-way strategies and methods in teaching in order to make the study of the duo subjects lively to the pupils. According to Mr Daniel Cobbold, the Municipal Director of Education for Mfantseman in the Central Region (CR) who made the call, poor teaching strategies and methods of some ...

A member of the legal team of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Abraham Amaliba has said all the various law faculties in the country should be given accreditation to offer professional law certificate courses. This, he said, will help in dealing with the mass failure in the law entrance examinations. He attributed the mass failure to the limited space to accommodate the ...

The family of Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta, that has dominated the country’s politics since independence, secretly owned a network of offshore companies for decades, according to a huge leak of financial papers. The Pandora Papers – 12 million files – is the biggest such leak in history. Mr Kenyatta and six members of his family have been linked to 13 ...

Ghana’s COVID-19 death toll has risen to 1,156, the latest figures from the Ghana Health Service indicate. The active caseload has dropped to 3,088. Out of that number, 43 are critical and 124 severe. Some 140 new cases were also recorded within the period. Since mid-March 2021, a total of 127,482 cases have been recorded in Ghana. Of that number, ...

Thirteen people have been confirmed dead in an accident at Konongo on the Accra-Kumasi Highway in the Ashanti region. The accident is reported to have been Sunday evening, around 10 pm between an Accra-Kumasi bound bus and a Cargo Truck at Konongo. An eyewitness who spoke to  Starrfm.com.gh said one of the buses attempted to overtake another vehicle which led ...

Brazil legend Pele has been released from hospital after undergoing surgery for a colon tumour. The 80-year-old had the operation at Albert Einstein Hospital in Sao Paulo on 4 September. Pele, the only player to win the World Cup three times, left the intensive care unit 10 days later, but was readmitted soon after as a “preventative measure”. “I am ...