With the imminent entry of qualified Free SHS graduates Into Universities this year, It is anticipated that already overwhelmed universities in Ghana will be further burdened by the sharp rise in the number of qualified applicants who will be competing for places during the 2020 admissions. Not much infrastructural development has been seen in the major universities to augment this imminent ...

Minutes after the selection of Professor Naana Jane Opoku Agyemang by H. E. John Mahama as his running mate in the December 2020 elections, some elements in the country, rushed to grab pick axes, shovels and stolen excavators to dig the ground looking for materials they could use to smear the respected Professor. One such material the diggers claimed to ...

A Circuit Court in Ho presided over by His Lordship Felix Datsomor has convicted and sentenced two notorious armed robbers to a total of 46 years in hard labour on Friday, 17 July, 2020 following their arrest in separate robbery expeditions. Emmanuel Courage Banitsi, a phone repairer, aged 22 and 19-years old Daniel Yeboah (unemployed) were charged for their involvement ...

President Jerry John Rawlings has said it is not an accident that he has given birth to three ladies. According to him, people thought having three girls will make him too radical but on the contrary they have made him compassionate. “You know I remember people thought that having three girls would make me too radical because I will be ...

The Circuit Court in Accra presided over by Her Honour Ms Ellen Asamoah has adjourned the case in which Chief Executive officer (CEO) of defunct Menzgold, Nana Appiah Mensah has been arraigned, to September 7, 2020. The State had previously on June 24, 2020 filed new charges against the CEO of Menzgold, also known as NAM 1 at the Accra ...

Ghana is focused on redusing COVID-19 cases to zero to ensure that life returns to normal, the Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has stated. Speaking on the Morning Starr on Monday, the Information Minister said the country can only achieve the target if citizens strictly keep to the preventive measures. “Ghana’s mortality rate is one of the lowest in the ...

The Ashanti regional branch of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) has dismissed claims by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) that the Electoral Commission was forced to admit anomalies in voter registration figures in the Ashanti region after they complained of it. According to the NPP, the assertion of the NDC is false as the EC itself had earlier informed ...

The Presiding Bishop of Perez Chapel International, Bishop Charles Agyinasare, has appealed to Ghanaians to pray against the ‘demon’ that makes politicians collapse local businesses when they win power. According to him, over the years, many reputable indigenous businessmen and entrepreneurs have been destroyed out of jealousy and envy by some politicians. Preaching to his congregants Sunday, the renowned preacher ...

More than 105,000 people have been arrested in Zimbabwe since March for violating regulations aimed at curbing the spread of coronavirus, police say. Around 1,000 were arrested in the last two days for “unnecessary movement” or for not wearing face masks, they add. Restrictions have been eased slightly in the country, where more than 1,500 infections have been confirmed. Critics ...

The Electoral Commission has condemned the practice of busing non-residents to constituencies to register in the ongoing voter’s registration exercise. According to the Commission’s Director of Elections Dr. Serebour Quaicue, Ghana’s electoral laws empower residents of communities to stop non-resident from registering in their communities. It comes after numerous complaints mainly from the opposition National Democratic Congress that executives of ...