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Foreign affairs and regional integration minister, Madam Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, has vowed to shake up the passport acquisition processes in the country to ensure that the laid down procedures and timelines for obtaining a passport are adhered to. During an unannounced visit to the Regional Passport Office in Accra and subsequently a visit to the Ridge Headquarters of the Passport ...

A member of the Ashanti Regional Communications team of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Moro Kabore has revealed that communicators of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the region have jammed the Nation Builders Corps (NABCO) application system. The President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Tuesday, 1st May 2018, launched the Nation Builders Corps (NABCO), which will employ, in ...

Suspended National Vice Chairman of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Sammy Crabbe, has been reportedly prevented from picking nomination forms to contest for the position of National Chairman in the upcoming national executive elections of the party. He was reportedly prevented by known NPP activist, Hajia Fati, when he attempted to pick forms earlier on Friday at the Asylum ...

The Tarkwa Police in the Western Region on Friday gunned down one of the robbers who robbed Plat and Plume Gold Refinery Company of GHC900,000 at Bogoso and later killed a police officer, Lance Corporal Nicholas Duku Friedrick Mensah alias “Cobby Nana”, was leading the police to a house where some of the stolen money was allegedly being kept, but ...

The Kasoa District Police Command has arrested two suspects in connection with the murder of a Nigerian man, Shoot Ogani, at Kasoa on Wednesday. According to the police, the deceased was allegedly stabbed by one Abbas Abdul, who is currently on the run. Shoot Ogani was rushed to the St. Gregory Catholic Hospital at Budumburam but was pronounced dead on ...

The title ‘Okyehene’ does not exist in the books of Ghana’s Chieftaincy Ministry, Dr Nana Agyenim Boateng, President of the Concerned Youth of Ashanti (CYA), has said. According to him, while the Asante King rules over a Kingdom, the Chieftaincy Ministry only recognises the title, Akyem Abuakwamanhene, for the Akyem Abuakwa Traditional Area. Dr Agyenim Boateng told Moro Awudu on ...

Boxes of drugs including Tramadol, the popularly abused prescribed-only pain relief, which were being smuggled into the country from Togo, have been confiscated by officials of the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) in the Volta Region. Concealed in empty boxes of Indomie noodles, the drugs were being smuggled through an unapproved route at a point referred to as ‘Kpoglo border’ ...

National Security Minister Albert Kan Dapaah Thursday evening visited the Manhyia palace over the seeming tension between the Otumfuo and the New Patriotic Party, Starr News has learnt. It comes after some senior executives of the ruling party were seen, in a photo gone viral, kneeling before the Ashanti Monarch. The king is reportedly angry over attempts by some individuals ...

The Deputy National Organiser of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Joshua Hamidu Akamba, has labelled the Nation Builders Corps (NABCO), a programme launched this week by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to address Ghana’s graduate unemployment, as a scam. Mr. Akamba, who spoke to Starr News in Bolgatanga Thursday, is among a cluster of NDC big names who have ...

Stephen Atubiga’s decision to contest in the flag bearer race of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) is a joke, Yaw Boateng Gyan, former National Organiser of the NDC, has said. According to him, his decision brings “comic relief to Ghanaians.” So far, apart from Mr Atubiga, about four other leading members of the NDC have launched their bid to contest ...