The Northern Region Minister, Salifu Saeed, has revealed that government is facing difficulties in repatriating the ten foreign nationals who tested positive for Coronavirus to their countries. The Ghana Health Service on Sunday, March 29 announced that the Northern Region capital of Tamale had recorded 10 cases of the novel infectious disease. The cases, eight Guineans and two Burkinabes who ...

Eastern Region is yet to record a case of Coronavirus after all but one of 28 suspected cases tested negative. The result of the one is still pending, according to the Eastern Region Director of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr Alberta Adjabeng Biritwum-Nyarko. But she indicated that three out of four persons are under self-isolation after being traced as ...

Interior Minister Ambrose Dery has assured that officers found culpable of brutalizing citizens in the ongoing partial lockdown will be dealt with accordingly. He reiterated the operation is a humanitarian one and not one to terrorize innocent citizens. Speaking to Starr News’ Ibrahim Alhassan, Mr Dery acknowledged some of the videos making rounds are real and have been sent to ...

The road fund under the erstwhile Mahama administration was branded “sick” by the Majority in Parliament after their counterparts used parliamentary privilege to blame the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) government for the delay in the construction of the Bolgatanga-Bawku-Pulimakom road. Led by the Member of Parliament (MP) for Pusiga, Laadi Ayii Ayamba, the Minority MPs said the NPP government ...

A former chairman of the Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC) is demanding that government comes clear on how it is going to police the use of funds it is demanding from legally appropriated oil funds, for COVID 19 emergency expenditures. According to Mr Kwame Jantuah, Ghanaians cannot trust government to use resources from the futuristic Heritage and the Stabilization ...

Twenty-two health professionals at the LEKMA Hospital at Teshie have been put in quarantine after a medical doctor at the facility tested positive for coronavirus. The unnamed physician is believed to have contracted the virus at a different health centre where he works on part-time basis. Some of his colleagues have told Starr News they are scared especially as there ...

Former President of MUSIGA, Bice Osei Kuffour has reacted to reports he has tested positive to the deadly coronavirus which is alleged to have killed his father, MyNewsGh.com reports. There were reports in sections of the media that suggested that Obour had been infected by COVID-19 after his father was killed by the virus. But in a tweet, the New ...

A rainstorm has ripped off 18 houses in Atiwa East in the Eastern Region displacing at least 24 occupants. No casualty was recorded in the incident which occurred in three communities-Kadowaso, Awirensua and Anyinam. Also affected were Anyinam Zion Kingdargaten school block and Anyinam Methodist Basic School. The displaced residents are currently perching with friends and families while others sleep ...

Deputy Minority leader James Klutse Avedzi has asked President Akufo-Addo to rethink his decision to donate his three months salary for the Covid-19 fight in Ghana. According to him, funds to fight the virus is needed now and not in three months as the gesture by the president suggests. “Hello Mr President, Nana Akufo-Addo, you are donating three months of ...

The man who believes that he beat Tyson Fury now works on the railways, fixing overhead cables. He watches Fury from afar with interest but rarely tells his mates about the day he flustered the world heavyweight champion. As he now says: “What’s the point?” John McDermott will forever be a small footnote in history because of the controversial points ...