Parliament on Tuesday approved a facility agreement amounting to fifty six million, one hundred and fifty-three thousand, five hundred euros (€56,153,500.000) from Deutsche Bank AG and Global Services (UK) Limited for the construction of health facilities in parts of the country. These include the construction of Trauma Hospitals in Obuasi in the Ashanti Region and Anyinam in the Eastern, an ...
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BoG grants IT Consortium enhanced Payment Service Provider license
The Bank of Ghana (BOG) has granted one of the country’s leading FinTech companies, IT Consortium Limited (ITC), an enhanced Payment Service Provider (PSP) license. The acquisition of the license, which is the highest license within the PSP category, follows the passage of the Payment Systems and Services Act, 2019 (Act 987) which creates an enabling regulatory and supervisory framework ...
Read More »Video: SHS students with COVID-19 ‘brought the virus from home’ – Nana ‘B’
The National Youth Organiser of the New Patriotic Party Henry Nana Boakye popularly known as Nana B says SHS students who have tested positive for COVID-19 in schools brought the virus from their homes. “It is important to note that the students who have tested positive for COVID-19 did not even contract the virus on their respective campuses, this is ...
Read More »Bono: Student killed after clashes at registration center
One person has been killed in Banda in the Bono region over a confrontation at a registration centre. Starr News understands that the scuffle at the registration center began after some persons associated with the NPP parliamentary candidate for the constituency confronted brother of the MP for the area, Ahmed Ibrahim, over reasons not yet known. The deceased, according to ...
Read More »SC adjourns Ofosu Ampofo case indefinitely
A five-member panel of the Supreme Court presided over by Justice Victor Jones Dotse has adjourned the case in which the National Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Samuel Ofosu Ampofo is challenging a High Court decision in his leaked tape trial at the High Court. The NDC chairman and Kweku Boahen are standing trial at the High Court ...
Read More »Lengendary Gospel Musician Elder Mireku’s Son Set To unveil “Africa is Home.”
James Mireku, the son of the Renowned Gospel musician Elder Akwasi Mireku’s will set the online portals and the various social media platforms ablaze with his maiden music titled “Africa Is Home.” He has not stopped serving his followers and lovers of music with various forms of soothing tunes through his project dubbed “James Sessions” which has run for a ...
Read More »COVID-19: Angry parents storm Accra Girls over wards whereabout
Parents of students at the Accra Girls Senior High School are currently at the school premises to demand answers as to the whereabout of their children who have tested positive for the Covid-19. This comes after a joint communique from the GHS and the GES revealed that 55 persons in the school have tested positive for the novel coronavirus According ...
Read More »NDC Female Deputy Regional Secretaries Congratulate Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang
The deputy regional secretaries of the opposition NDC have issued a press release congratulating Prof. Naana Jane Opoku-Agyeman in her appointment as running mate for the 2020 election. The statement read: “We are extremely excited about the nomination of Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang as the Vice Presidential Candidate of the NDC for election 2020. “ “It is a great honour ...
Read More »ZONGO WOMEN TO BENEFIT MUCH UNDER THE SUPER COMPETENT LEADERSHIP OF PROF JANE NAANA OPOKU AGYEMANG
The women in the inner city and Zongos will be elevated and exposed to personal development and growth in the next NDC government, the incoming vice president being a woman will surely understand the need to support women in the inner cities and Zongos to move forward in all aspect of life. Prof Jane will ensure the involvement and participation ...
Read More »Calls to shutdown reopened schools untenable – Education Minister
Education Minister, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh, has said calls for re-opened schools to be shut down over rising cases of the Coronavirus, particularly in Senior High Schools, are untenable. Speaking during an interview on Adom TV’s ‘Badwam’ programme on Monday, July 13, 2020, the Minister said he disagreed with the calls for SHSs to be closed down and the students ...
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