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The acting National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Freddie Blay is to spend a whopping $11, 412, 500 – an equivalent of GHC52,846,171.65 – to secure 275 buses for the party, Starrfmonline.com can confirm. Documents available to Starrfmonline.com reveal that Mr. Blay, who is serving as a “Guarantor” on behalf of constituency chairpersons of the NPP, who are ...

President Akufo-Addo is set to begin a nationwide tour beginning Friday, May 18 to touch base with Ghanaians. The tour will see the President visiting each of the ten regions of Ghana starting from the Brong Ahafo region. The President returned home Wednesday night from the United Kingdom after a weeklong vacation, his first since assuming office as President. He ...

All prospective teachers in the country seeking to be professionals from 2017/2018 academic year and beyond are scheduled to write a Professional Examination set for 25th July, 2018, the National Teaching Council (NTC) of the Ministry of Education has announced. In a letter dated 3rd May, 2018 and signed by the Executive Secretary of the NTC, Dr. Evelyn Oduro, said:” ...

The Ranking Member on Parliament’s Employment Committee, Dr. Kwabena Donkor wants President Nana Akufo-Addo to enlist the help of Ghana’s living former Presidents to help him deal with the challenge of political vigilantism. According to the National Democratic Congress (NDC) MP for Pru East, the expertise and stature of the statesmen can be tapped to fashion out a solution to ...

A Koforidua High Court has sentenced a farmer to death by hanging for gruesomely murdering his wife in 2003 at Adakuma, a farming community in the Birim South District of the Eastern region. The convict, Yaw Nkrumah, now 43-years-old was found guilty of murder contrary to section 47 of Act 29/60 by a jury after five years of full trial ...

Dozens of police officers within the Tamale metropolis in the Northern Region yesterday abandoned their duty posts following violent attacks on them by some soldiers. The attacks by the irate soldiers, Today learnt, stemmed from the reason that one of their colleagues was arrested following a complaint of assault. And packed in three military vehicles and armed to the teeth, ...

The ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) has said it will be a waste of time for anyone to contest President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo internally. The party’s Director of Elections, Evans Nimako, told Nyankonton Mu Nsem on Rainbow Radio 87.5Fm that, the current president will be the party’s 2020 presidential candidate and there would no room for anyone to contest ...

Ghana’s mobile money interoperability platform deployed just a week ago has the best solution for Africa according to Deputy Communications Minister, George Andah. “It’s interesting that right now as far as the mobile money interoperability platform is concerned across Africa, Ghana has the best solution,” Mr Andah made known Wednesday on Upfront, a current affairs programme on the Joy News. ...

A well-known lawyer tried bribing investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas to edit out the a scandalous findings against “a man” in the yet-to-be premiered Number 12 undercover documentary, which will expose a lot of rot at the Ghana Football Association (GFA), Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide newspaper, Abdul-Malik Kweku Baako Jr., has revealed. The documentary will be shown for ...

The Energy Minister, Boakye Agyarko has slammed the Chief Executive Officer of Tema Oil Refinery (TOR), Issac Osei for challenging plans to convert TOR into a tank farm. The Energy Minister disclosed in January that government in partnership with the private sector will build a new oil refinery at the cost of $4billion. The new refinery is expected to produce ...