NEWS

The government has made giant strides in the fight against galamsey after the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the Akufo-Addo administration launched a full-scale attack on the menace. Spearheaded by the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, John Peter Amewu, his outfit has shut down several illegal mining concessions leaving destroyed machinery in their wake. In a video intercepted ...

The Northern regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party Alhaji Bugri Naabu has been involved in a near-fatal accident Thursday dawn. Starr FM’s Northern regional correspondent Eliasu Tanko reports that the controversial chairman was returning to Tamale after a political campaign at Sawla and Bole, to seek re-election in the upcoming regional executives’ elections on Saturday, when his car crashed ...

A 72-year-old businessman has won the Upper West Regional chairmanship race of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), with a call on party supporters to rally behind him to break the continued dominance of the opposition NDC in the region. Mr. Saanbaye B. Kangbaree, polled 134 votes to lead the party, beating his closest contender Hafiz Bin Salih, who had 69 ...

Dr Stephen Opuni, a former Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), has sued Multimedia Group Limited (MGL), owners of Adom TV, for GHS10million for defaming him. Also named in the suit are Daniel Nii Odoi Tutuwani, a producer at Adom TV and Kojo Nkansah, alias Lilwin, as second and third defendants, respectively. In the suit filed at ...

Security Analyst, Dr. Emmanuel Kwesi Aning has said the controversial Ghana Military pact with the United States of America will benefit both parties. “This is a neutral agreement,” he stated Tuesday on Morning Starr. According to him, the tumult generated after the content of the agreement were leaked to the public was needless as “there’s nothing new in this agreement ...

The Ghana Hotels Association is pushing for a portion of the Tourism Development Levy to run its operations. The Association contributes almost 70 percent of the levy which had accrued to about GhC40 million as at January this year. All hotels in the country are expected to contribute 1 percent on goods and services consumed by patrons. The new President ...

One of the concessionaires that bid to manage the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) under the Power Compact II agreement, BXC Consortium has sued the Millennium Development Authority (MiDA) over what it describes as an unfair disqualification in the bidding process. MIDA last week disqualified BXC Consortium and selected Meralco Consortium, a company led by Manila Electricity Company from the ...

Maverick Politician and Member of Parliament for Assin South, Ken Agyapong has said he would have shot to death the Security Coordinator of Metro Mass Transit (MMT) Company if he were to be the Managing Director, Bennet Aboagye. According to the financier of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), he would have made the Security Coordinator pay dearly with his ...

General Overseer of the Radiant Place Church, Apostle Emmanuel Inkoom, has slammed individuals who claim to be men of God and use prophecies for popularity. There has been an increase in the number of individuals who claim to be prophets and make statements publicly to the effect that some individuals will die by a certain time. However, Apostle Inkoom told ...

Liverpool manager Jürgen Klopp has urged the club’s fans to show respect to Tuesday’s Champions League semi-final opponents AS Roma when they arrive at the stadium. Liverpool are being investigated by UEFA after their supporters threw objects at the Manchester City bus, causing damage, as they arrived for the quarter-final first leg at Anfield this month. Klopp said he wanted ...