The High Command of the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) has given the assurance that soldiers who were seen in the video gone viral molesting some residents of Wa in the Upper West region will be punished. Footage seen by Starrfm.com.gh showed the soldiers, who are stationed in Wa, in their numbers walking the streets and randomly subjecting residents to punishments. ...

Government has named a 3-member Committee of Inquiry which will conduct an inquiry into the circumstances that led to the Ejura killings on June 29. The 3-member committee includes Justice George Kingsley Koomson, a justice of the Court of Appeal, Security Expert, Vladmir Antwi-Danso, and the Executive Director of Penplusbyte, Miss Juliet A. Amoah. The committee is expected to complete ...

Soldiers on Thursday afternoon stormed the Wa Municipality in the Upper West region and reportedly assaulted some residents over a stolen phone, Starr News has learnt. A footage seen by Starrfm.com.gh shows the soldiers, who are stationed in Wa, in their numbers walking the streets and randomly subjecting residents to punishments. Some residents were seen picking the gutters while being ...

The Acting Director of Environmental Quality Standards at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Emmanuel Appoh says the agency will from September this year make Air Quality Data available to Ghanaians to enhance good health. According to the EPA staff, the agency has put in place state-of-the-art equipment to ensure the data is accurate and efficient for everyone. “These equipment are ...

Chief Justice Kwesi Anin Yeboah has refused transfer the case involving former Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) CEO, Dr Stephen Opuni, who, together with Agricult CEO Seidu Agongo, is being tried for causing financial loss of GHS271.3 million to the state in the procurement of some agrochemicals, to a different judge. On Thursday, 1 July 2021, trial judge Justice Clemence Honyenuga ...

Two Junior High School pupils of Rev. Cobbah Yalley Junior High School at Newsite a suburb in the Effia-Kwesimintsim of the Western Region are in the grips of the Western Regional Police Command for assaulting their headmistress. Municipal Chief Executive for Effia-Kwesiminstim Municipal Assembly (EKMA), Kojo Acquah disclosed this during the assembly’s second ordinary meeting of the second session. Speaking ...

Former Auditor-General Daniel Domelevo has revealed that all the staff at the Audit Service who helped him to investigate former Senior Minister Yaw Osafo Maafo in relation to his supervision of the payment of $1 million to Kroll and Associates for no work done, have been demoted. One of them, he said, has been transferred to the Central Region. Speaking ...

The youth wing of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has indicated that its intended demonstration and street protest dubbed, ‘A March for Justice’ scheduled for 6 July 2021 will take place as planned. The group wrote to the Ghana Police Service informing it about the march in a letter on 30 June 2021. The letter, signed by the NDC’s national ...

The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) Africa has called on the government to cease immersing the military in internal security operations which could be handled by the Police. CHRI believes the deployment of the military for internal security operations is unnecessary and exacerbates infractions and violations against the fundamental human rights of the citizens. A statement issued Wednesday, June 30 ...

Ghana has been hit with another huge judgment debt as the country is set to pay over 70 million dollars to West Africa Gas Limited after a ruling by the London Court of Arbitration. The dispute came after the termination by the Claimant, West Africa Gas Limited of a Gas Sales Agreement dated 9 October 2015 between WAGL and the ...